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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - Anuradha Menon
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At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2008, USB-IF President, Jeff Ravencraft revealed that the new specifications for USB 3.0 would be fully released on November 17 at the SuperSpeed USB Developers Conference in San Jose. The USB 3.0 architecture is also named SuperSpeed USB due to its incredible 5 gigabit per second (Gbps) data transfer speed.

SuperSpeed USB Standard-A connector 
SuperSpeed USB 3.0
Standard-A internal pins
The USB 3.0 specification guarantees an increased performance of 10 times compared to the capabilities of the current USB 2.0, providing a bandwidth of 600 MB/s second. Devices employing USB 3.0 specifications are planned to be available to consumers in 2009 or 2010 and would be backwards compatible with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1.

“Delays have held USB 3.0 back,” said Lars Giusti of Microsoft. However, he predicts that the fully signed-off USB 3.0 specifications would only be presented to the implementers in the USB 3.0 Promoter Groups in 2009. Subsequently, it would take approximately another year until broad-scale product deployment of host controllers, devices, and systems utilizing USB 3.0 would be available in the market. 

President and general manager of the chipset business unit at AMD, Phil Eisler, released a statement saying, "The future of computing and consumer devices is increasingly visual and bandwidth intensive. Lifestyles filled with HD media and digital audio demand quick and universal data transfer. USB 3.0 is an answer to the future bandwidth need of the PC platform.”

 SuperSpeed USB Mini-B connector
SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Mini-B connector
Microsoft is currently in the planning stage of selecting which operating system to incorporate the USB 3.0 specifications into. “The Microsoft USB core team is currently evaluating which operating systems we should support USB 3.0 on. It's a difficult decision and a difficult choice because there are all these moving parts,” said Giusti.

“Our early indications tell us that most partners think that we should support USB 3.0 on at least Windows Vista.”

According to early information supplied by Microsoft the improvement in transferring large files using USB 3.0 based hardware will be considerable.

Performance comparison: Transfer of 25GB HD movie:

USB 1.1: 9.3 hours

USB 2.0: 13.9 minutes

USB 3.0: 70 seconds

SuperSpeed USB Standard-A connector 
SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Standard-A connector
TFOT has previously looked at USB 3.0 in September 2007, predicting USB 3.0 to arrive in 2008. We have also written on the MultiSwitch, the first USB sharing hub, which is a new extension to USB that will enable sharing of various USB peripherals between computers and allows the sharing of information and content from devices such as DVD players, cameras, printers, and scanners between laptops and desktops using a simple USB cable. Other advanced data transfer technologies covered by TFOT include Georgia Electronic Design Center’s  wireless technology, which  demonstrates transfer rates of 15 gigabits per second (Gbps) at a distance of 1 meter, 10 Gbps at 2 meters, and 5 Gbps at 5 meters.

Additional information on USB 3.0 can be obtained at Intel’s website.

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Comments & Replies (13)
even faster than the hard disk speed?   (11/12/08 - 20:47 - by qiyunima)
if windows got usb 3.0, the speed will be too faster to let hard disk
down. our hard disk speed not faster than usb 3.0, how could widows
work with it? do we need to update our system to raid 0?
wtf?!   (11/13/08 - 9:25 - by i are 1337 sauce)
I think that widows will do just fine, they have already gone through
lots of stress and sadness losing their husbands, so i think they will
be able to handle this.
widows, haha   (11/13/08 - 9:39 - by Tyler)
Nice comment sauce, that was funny as hell. I almost spit out my
coffee once I realized what you were referring to.
HUH?   (11/13/08 - 10:13 - by Tito )
Dude we just did the math.
How can USB 3.0 transfer 25GB at 70sec
with a Transfer rate of 600MB/s?
(25 gigabytes) / (70 seconds) =
365.714286 MBps. I'm I missing something here?
USB 3.0 speed   (11/13/08 - 13:12 - by Iddo Genuth)
Tito - quick answer - yes you are missing something - 600MB/s is the
theoretical max limit 365MB/s was demonstrated by MS in real life.
Language   (11/13/08 - 14:42 - by ME)
Minus one for misutilizing the English language.
Still Not As Fast as IEEE   (11/13/08 - 17:59 - by Al)
This is already inferior to FW400, and certainly FW800. It\'s
obsolete.
Reply ( speed )   (11/14/08 - 11:51 - by Pr1XseL)
USB 2.0 max speed limit is 480 Mbit/s = 60mb per sec
USB 3.0 max
speed 4.8 Gbit/s = 600mb per sec = 42gigabites in 70 seconds

When
your computer is fast enough for it!
IEEE what?   (11/14/08 - 16:10 - by AI2)
Yeah sure, it\'s slower than FW but how much of computers have FW?
uhm, 10-20%?
IEEE   (11/14/08 - 16:59 - by BadAl)
Umm Al and Al2, you might want to have another look at Firewire.. it's
only 400Mbit and 800Mbit. USB 3 is ~4800Mbit..
IEEE   (11/15/08 - 0:09 - by Al)
No, USB 3.0 has a max rate of 600MBs. It's average speed, like all
USB, is significantly lower - it looks slower than FW400 which is
constant 400, while FW800 is constant 800. IT'll cost you $10 to put
them in . YOu want real speed? Try HDMI and DVI. The fact they
aren't standard with everything is just idiocy.
IEEE...   (11/15/08 - 0:10 - by Al)
Oh, and I haven't bought a computer w/o firewire in a loooooooong
time. I've bought about ten in the last two years for home and work.
Speed Table   (12/10/08 - 13:13 - by bspds)
USB1.1 = 12 Mbps
FW400 = 400 Mbps
USB2 = 480
Mbps
FW800 = 800 Mbps
SCSI160 = 1280 Mbps
SATA1 = 1500
Mbps
SCSI320 = 2560 Mbps
SATA2 = 3000 Mbps
USB3 = 4800
Mbps
HDMI1.2 = 4950 Mbps
SATA3 = 6000 Mbps
HDMI1.3 = 10200
Mbps

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