[ShadowAce]

[Terpfen]

Dear Intel,

Please get rid of the ridiculous “feature” where the standard’s bandwidth is divided by the number of ports. When I hook up an external hard drive and a wireless mouse dongle, I don’t want the hard drive going half-speed because of a friggin’ mouse.

Signed, me.

[stylin19a]

"(USB is master/slave), "

uh-oh....

[antiRepublicrat]

Intel has stated that it expects USB 3.0 to be 10 times as fast as USB 2.0, which would give it a 4.8Gbps transfer rate. In contrast, the current iteration of S3200 will top out at 3.2Gbps.

Given that Firewire 400 gives more throughput than USB 480, some 15-70% faster (depending on the test), I'm betting the performance between the two will be close. Then the question is what the other advantages are. USB has only one serious advantage -- it's less expensive.