USB 3.. coming soon to a computer near you

[JonathanF]

There's some interesting news floating around about USB 3.0 making it into production boards in September.

At 5Gbps it's significantly faster than Firewire 800.

Could be cool to have new Red Drives with this in the coming few months. It's fully reverse compatible with USB 2.0. No news on drive support yet, but I thought it was cool to see the interfaces getting quicker.

Linux should have kernel support before anyone else. It's already in the 2.6.31 kernel update due soon.

Here's a cool video showing off the speed (or talking about it):

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/superspeed-usb-3-0-in-action/

Enjoy,

:J

 

[Charles Angus]

Any word on FW3000 or whatever they're calling it?

 

[Peter Mosiman]

this looks awesome!

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

FW3200 has been finalized, but no one is racing to adopt it. I think everyone is going the USB3 route as it's supposedly cheaper to implement and it's faster. 4800Mbps vs. 3200Mbps.

I'm thinking we can expect quad-core mobile CPUs and USB3 in notebooks by the end of this year.

 

[Yannick Sadler]

Any word on FW3000 or whatever they're calling it?

FW3200. It should start to roll out this year. As far as I know, no specific devices has been announced yet.

 

[PaulClements]

If you have a computer on a network with a USB3 Harddrive plugged into it, could you then network other computers via USB3 together and essentially have a low cost shared storage solution?

Paul