[ale] OT Gotta love USB 3

Justin Goldberg justgold79 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 6 00:35:25 EST 2013


Sweet. Finally pcs have the interconnect speed of a Nintendo gameboy from
20+ years ago (the multiplayer cable used FireWire) and macs as well. Hah!
On Nov 5, 2013 11:28 PM, "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <
atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

> I just got my first chance to try a USB 3 port on the motherboard that I
> have.  I finally got my hands on a USB 3 enclosure and stuck the new WD 2
> TB Black drive mentioned in another thread in it.
>
> I'm getting transfer rates of around 100 MB / sec to the drive, which is
> limited by the spinning platters.  I love it.  That's 2-3 times what I was
> ever able to get out of USB 2.
>
> The interface should be capable of close to 500 MB / sec if I had anything
> that could absorb data that fast.
>
> If I have to do any backups to external media, they're going on THAT
> motherboard connection.  That should be less painful than before.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
>
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