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The much anticipated and let’s face it needed USB 3 technology is just around the corner with devices and USB 3 cables becoming available from late 2009/2010. While Microsoft decides which of it’s operating systems they are going to put the technology in to, what kind of differences can we the user expect from it?

USB cables have become the most popular way to connect devices together both around the home and in the workplace, whether this is PC peripherals or phones, MP3 players, printers the list really is endless of what you can do with them. This popularity is due to not only it’s performance but it’s ease of use allowing the non technical among us to easily connect these devices together securely.

Unlike other things in the digital age USB 3 will be completely backwards compatible allowing you to continue to use existing items and not having to rush out and buy all new. But of course to take full advantage of the new features you will need to get updated devices.

So what are these new features?

USB 3 Cable

With the high take up of digital devices in recent years the need for people to store, backup and generally move this data around has grown massively. While the popular USB 2 standard is good at this, the new USB 3.0 cables and technology will allow this data to be moved just as securely but up to 10 times faster, giving us the ability to transfer large amounts of data quickly, rather than taking minutes and hours taking only seconds and minutes. For example a recent test on the new USB3.0 technology comparing it to the older USB standards saw a 25gb hd Movie transferred in the following times:

USB 1.1: 9.3 hours

USB 2.0: 13.9 minutes

USB 3.0: 70 seconds

(Source: Microsoft/WinHEC 2008)

As you can see from the above USB3 is far faster than it’s predecessors and with it being so new we can expect to see improvements on this as it matures and so do the devices taking full advantage of it.

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