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The thing is, other than fast SATA drives, what needs USB3 bandwidth?
Web cams don't, nor do printers or just about any other peripheral I can think of. A lot of these devices saw a benefit from USB2, the same cannot be said with USB3. It's like moving from DVD to BluRay, yes it's better, but it isn't ground breaking like the move from VHS to DVD.
Card readers. Scanners. Camera links.Originally Posted by Funkstar
They are already bottlenecked by USB2.0 so 3.0 can't come soon enough.
It's all subjective
TBH, external hard drives really could do with USB3.0, the sooner the better.
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Absolutely - USB2 is a bottleneck and e-SATA isn't that well supported (or designed for that matter due to the lack of power-on-cable).It's all subjective
TBH, external hard drives really could do with USB3.0, the sooner the better.
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I agree it is needed, no doubt about that. Bigger, faster, harder, stronger and all that
But I just don't see it as the leap USB2 was. Remember when you couldn't even get external 1x DVD-R drives on USB because it couldn't handle the bandwidth?
What's the theoretical bandwidth on a wireless-N link? Must be close to saturating a USB2 connection, I'd've thought...?
Frankly, I see no downside to increasing the bandwidth available to peripherals. It's not going to hamper the ones that don't need it, and it'll help the ones that do - USB storage being the obvious one. Being able to run backups to USB drives that takes minutes rather than hours would be a godsend...
I believe it is up to 300mbit for 802.11n
edit actually, 600mbit is possible, but I haven't heard of any devices actually using this method of encoding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11n#Data_rates
Wouldn't be surprised if USB3 is mainstream before we se 802.11n devices hitting that
Wasn't there word of powered-sata? What happened to that? I always thought that it was a massive oversight.
And anyway, why the hell is it going to take so long to integrate USB 3 into Windows?
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Lack of real-world hardware - there's just no drive for MS to work in USB3 support given nobody actually has er.. USB3
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Until today no-one had dx11 hardware either, but it didn't stop MS from developing it and including it in Windows 7 beta buildsLack of real-world hardware - there's just no drive for MS to work in USB3 support given nobody actually has er.. USB3
Smarty pants - miss the bit about 'no drive'?Until today no-one had dx11 hardware either, but it didn't stop MS from developing it and including it in Windows 7 beta builds
There's just no pressure from industry or from consumers for it yet - despite the fact most of us on here love the idea of it.
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Exactly, it's about consumer demand, not whether hardware exists or not.
Well, in the case of DX11 - there's no consumer demand, nor applications that use it. But really this is utterly pointless oui? My point isn't *where* it comes from, just that it has to come from *somewhere*. I really can't see that's as being contentious, even for you
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Get out of the wrong side of bed this morning?
No-one is saying anything about it having to come from somewhere - that's obvious. I was just correcting you about the lack of real hardware point. Nothing more, nothing less.
I doth my cap for your consideration, but no - having a rather good day all in allGet out of the wrong side of bed this morning?
...back at ya for the DX11 thang
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