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Though many people are keenly awaiting the commercial launch of USB 3.0, it is advisable that they subdue their alacrity a touch as it will take some time for the technology to warm-up. A prototype USB 3.0 hard drive being showcased at the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show is only able to manage read speeds up to 1320Mb/s and writes speeds of up to 1000Mb/s, which is around a quarter of what is possible with USB 3.0.
A representative for the USB Implementers Forum also confirmed to TG Daily that it will take a bit of time before devices begin to fully tap the potential of the new technology.
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Caskey.100
January 10, 2009 at 11:07pm
Unfortunately until the read and write of drives increase's we won't ever see the full potential of USB. Right now SSD's have a read time of only 77 mbs. and a write time that is lower. It won't matter if the cable can transfer more than that. It depends on how quick it can receive the data to transfer.
We have yet to reach the full potentail of IDE or SATA.
Pball1224
January 08, 2009 at 2:11pm
What's not to get excited about, isn't 1320 Mb/s (Megabit/s) about the same as 165MB/s (Megabyte/s)???
Isn't this near the upper limits of current SATA Drives? Not the interface, I'm talking about the actual data output of current SATA drives.
I think that's pretty exciting, since benchmarks on my current external HDs show about a 25MB/s read speed over USB2.
Hmm, 25MB/s or 165MB/s. Which would you be excited about?
SSDs are getting better every day, who wants to place bets on which company will offer an external USB3 version first?
I Jedi
January 08, 2009 at 10:59am
I am definitely looking forward to the new USB 3.0. Faster read and write times will sure be a nice thing to have. :}
