We all make use of USB technology, don’t we? We love to fit that USB dongle into the port of the system or laptop and use it for data transfer in such a way that there is no tomorrow and there was no yesterday. USB 2.0 technology had been prevailing for the past few years, but the theoretical bandwidth of attaining the speeds of 3 GBps just like eSATA and FireWire is a distant dream. So, in order to over come it and reduce the tweaking of the microchips and controllers, Intel has taken the initiative and came up with the USB 3.0 technology which is capable of data transfers which could attain 4.8 Gbps, theoretically, of course.
Some of the features that USB 3.0 provide is:
- More power when needed
- Less power when NOT needed
- Bulk transfers are streamed for better performance
- In between the transfer intervals, the devices trigger the Isochronous transfers so that the devices can enter into the low power link states
- Now the USB 3.0 devices can communicate with the host so that the performance can be increased
So many technological advancements in a few years, where are we driving to? Stone age? Hope, Not so.
Get to know more about USB 3.0 at the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 FAQ.
