USB 3.0 Ups Peripheral Bandwidth
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USB Implementers Forum introduced the final USB 3.0 specification at the end of 2008. As you can imagine, the new standard once again will accelerate throughput, and although the speed bump isn’t as significant as 40x when USB 1.1 was replaced by USB 2.0, there still is a 10x increase in bandwidth. USB 3.0 is specified to run at 5 Gbit/s maximum speed. However, this increase is still great enough to offer almost twice the bandwidth of today’s Serial ATA standard (3 Gbit/s gross bandwidth).
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