USB 3.0: freakishly fast - maybe

ZDNet ^ | 7 January 2010 | Robin Harris

[ShadowAce]

Video at link

[Lx]

USB 3.0 is a different protocol - USB is a brand, not a technology - and while I haven’t done a deep dive it is a big improvement, while retaining backward compatibility with USB 1 & 2.

Deep Dive, the latest rhetoric in the project manager's and marketing scum's vocabulary that as usual, means nothing.

[mowowie]

I just bought a OCZ Vertex SSD and Win 7 64-bit.

Very fast.

[xenob]

Nothing against the poster, but that article is awful. It brings forth no details and rambles. Drunk blogging is dangerous...

[Recon Dad]

Is this something that would require a hardware upgrade, new computer or could it be accomplished with a software download?

Pardon my stupidity on all things geeky. All I know is when somebody says we can download faster.....I want it.

[martin_fierro]

and while I haven’t done a deep dive

How about getting back to us once you have.

(not *you,* SA)

[ShadowAce]

It’ll require new hardware—either a new computer, or a new PCI card with the ports.

[Pessimist]

“Deep Dive, the latest rhetoric in the project manager’s and marketing scum’s vocabulary that as usual, means nothing”

I guess it’s intended to be the opposite of “the 40,000 foot view”. :)

[PoloSec]

I think I’ll wait for USB 4 or 5

[Still Thinking]

Mac users face a bigger problem: it appears that Cupertino is doing nothing - zip, nada - with USB 3.0. With their smaller market share and tighter control, little is likely to happen unless Apple actively supports it.

Mac do have the ability to accept third party expansion cards, don't they? Or do they?

[I Buried My Guns]

Add that phrase to the dust heap of history, along with:

Value add
Low-hanging fruit, and
Skillset

[kevinm13]

I will have to wait for USB 3.0 as I have just put money into USB 2.0 hard drives, laptops, thumb drives, etc.

[Lx]

Paradigm shift...

It appears cloud computing is making a come back. I don’t know if they’ll ever get over users worries about a third party having their data.

[Uncle Miltie]

"because that number technically correct and operationally bogus"

"I'd like to buy a verb, Alex."

[tubebender]

Will it make FRee Republic load faster?

[Still Thinking]

I don’t know if they’ll ever get over users worries about a third party having their data.

Not with this user they won't. There's even a legal aspect to it. Courts have ruled that information shared with a vendor isn't subject to fourth amendment protection because the originator already elected to share it, and has thus waived fourth amendment. Kind of like they can go through your trash can, because by throwing the stuff out, you implicitly renounced claim to it.

[Still Thinking]

Will it make FRee Republic load faster?

Tell me about it. The last week or two it seems like page requests from FR take like 5-10 seconds. And it's not my PC or internet, because other sites load normally.

[Lx]

It’s a very scary road. How much is some companies client list go to go for? I firmly believe these backup companies will eventually start to mine the data. Things as simple as an email or phone list is worth big bucks and if they’ve already got a 4th amendment ruling, it will happen.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

as usual, means nothing.

Funny, I was able to discern his meaning in the context he used it.

But, agreed. It is stupid techno-babble. He could have easily used the tried and true "20,000 foot overview" to show us how hip he thinks he is.