USB 3.0 The New Connectors

[Tavarin]

They should have made it 6gbps

It is now 6Gbps. Intel demoed it at IDF and that was the new speed. Still not fast enough to last more than a year though and then it will once again become the bottleneck of data transfer.

[crenn]

Wrong, it's 4.8gbps.

[FuzzyPlushroom]

I think it still is, and will be until USB 3.0.. I 'm not currently aware of a firewire 2.0. It's kind of weird that it's the only thing that's never really been upgraded, other than the legacy ports.

The original FireWire was "FireWire 400" (400 Mbps), while "FireWire 800" (take one guess) was introduced two years later, in 2002.

Wiki says there's gonna be a faster variant to compete with USB 3.0, too...

[nevermind1534]

The original FireWire was "FireWire 400" (400 Mbps), while "FireWire 800" (take one guess) was introduced two years later, in 2002.

Wiki says there's gonna be a faster variant to compete with USB 3.0, too...

I never knew that.

Besides the short term shoring up of S3200 over the beta connector already discussed, future iterations of FireWire should bring a bump in speed to 6.4 Gbit/s, use of single-mode fiber, and additional connectors such as the small multimedia interface.[17]

Ok, so it will be 6.4Gb/s, and also use fiber.

[TheGreatSatan]

Clearance 2.0 cables!!

[progbuddy]

All this bandwidth is silly if you don't have the hardware to push it past that bandwidth. SATA II harddrives are capable of pushing around 150 MB/sec, although they are on a 3 gigabit wire (around 375 Mbyte/sec). Solid state disks are slow right now because they are meant to last longer (less heat output from a slower SSD makes it last a lot longer). A mouse doesn't really need to have 5 Gbit/sec bandwidth to operate efficiently. Maybe way further down the road (HVD players, for instance) we'll get something that can utilize it to the fullest extent.
-Kevin

[crenn]

Trust me, SATAIII bandwidth can be used easily if you have port multipliers.