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even USB 2.0 isn't fully utilized by most devices
If you've got a single external hard disk or DVD-ROM drive on USB 2.0, the USB bus isn't the bottleneck. Even while hard drive storage capacity has grown by magnitudes, the throughput speed is still stuck close to what it was more than a decade ago. SATA helped a little, but not nearly enough.

USB 3.0 will be useful someday, and the earliest beneficiaries will be external multi-drive RAID configurations using 4-6 volume stripe sets. Even most of the solid-state transfers (flash devices, either standalone or embedded in cameras as so forth) run below USB 2.0 speeds because of inefficient memory controllers or poorly-designed file structures.
Posted by: terry flores   Posted on: 11/17/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Where's the Beef?  Maarek | 11/17/08
Where would you guess it would be?  ShadeTree | 11/17/08
Why so long?  barwell | 11/17/08
Ummm ...  Ludovit | 11/17/08
The rate is theoretical.  ShadowGIATL | 11/17/08
To the same hub I'd presume. NT  SamCPP | 11/18/08
even USB 2.0 isn't fully utilized by most devices  terry flores | 11/17/08
Because of its reliance on a host CPU  Fred Fredrickson | 11/18/08
Well I wouldn't be too quick to brag about  SamCPP | 11/18/08
non-standard USB plugs  EMonkIA | 11/20/08
nonsense  MikeJ2332 | 11/24/08
I could hardly find a firewire cable  DevGuy_z | 11/19/08
RE: SuperSpeed USB released  emiliosic | 11/18/08
Every product has a single original  SamCPP | 11/18/08
Anyone wants a LaCie USB 1.0 HD doorstop?  fantozzi | 11/19/08
RE: SuperSpeed USB released  MikeJ2332 | 11/24/08

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