USB 3.0
As a Small business IT infrastructure consultant, this excites me very much.
For example, Microsoft Small Business server 2008 does not have native suppport for tape drives. We use USB Hard Drives and if your back up image is large, a back up can take hours to process, more importantly, Hours to restore a back up....... It now looks like we can do it 10 times faster with USB 3.0!
"SuperSpeed USB brings significant performance enhancements to the ubiquitous USB standard, while remaining compatible with the billions of USB enabled devices currently deployed in the market.
SuperSpeed USB will deliver up to 10x the data transfer rate of Hi-Speed USB, as well as improved power efficiency. The USB 3.0 specification was developed by the USB 3.0 Promoter Group which consists of Hewlett-Packard Company, Intel Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, NEC Corporation, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments." (quoted from virtual press office)
USB 2.0 offers speeds of up to 480Mbps but an effective rate of 40MBps for your average data transfer. So does this mean and effectice data transfer rate of 400Mbps for USB 3.0? only one way to find out.... lets get our hands on some USB 3.0 kit ofer the coming months and try it out!
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