USB 3.0 coming our way soon
USB (Univeral Serial Bus) connectors have created a revolution in PC peripheral connectivity as almost all of the peripherals such as keyboard/mouse, printer/scanner, flash drives, portable drives, joystick, data cables of mobiles and digicams are now available in USB. The advantages used to be cheap hardware, hot plugging facility and univeral acceptance. The only gripe in USB used to be slow data transfer speeds even with USB 2.0 specification.
Now USB 3.0 specifications are almost complete and devices with support for it slated to arrive in a year’s time. The important change is obviously even higher data transfer speed and this time the speeds reach around 5 Gbps which is almost 10 times that of USB 2.0. Better power management are also expected with the specification. The ports and cables are to be backward compatible with previous generation devices.
This should literally kill connectivity options such as Firewire and eSATA as these were targeted at devices that needed more bandwidth than USB and so far is only a niche market in the high end.
The bad thing is a horrible marketing name such as SuperSpeed USB for this version. This adds to the already confusing names such as High Speed and Full speed USB which to the common user can be highly misleading as to which one is the fastest option.
