I'd like one that plugs into my USB por... oh.
Houston, we have a netbook. :-)
Accessory specialist Belkin is gearing up for the SuperSpeed USB revolution with a pair of products that will add the new 5Gb/s bus to your computer. Desktop owners will be able to use the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 PCIe Add-in Card, which is exactly what Belkin says it is. The card occupies any PCI Express slot and has a pair if USB …
Super speed USB... what's the point when the choke point of any data transfer is the hard drive itself. USB2 speeds would rarely ever get above 20mb/s when using read/write to my external HD... regardless of IDE or SATA drive. Even internally SATAII drives don't get about the 80-90mb/s mark (standard drives not the 10k/rpm raptor types).
Unless devices are going to be using SSD drives over a 6gb/s ... then it's a pointless exercise in my opinion... Because the majority of devices offered as USB will still be crippled by slow hard drives.
For storage devices.. it's a waste of time trying to fool people with hype about it being so much faster... it will be only if the internal workings of the devices using the bus are capable of keeping up.
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Too bad they are only 30% as fast as USB 3.0 is supposed to be. According to Belkin their tests showed they top out around 1,500Mbps and not the 5,000Mbps that USB 3.0 is promising.
Also, $50 USD for a single USB cable?
Hopefully there is something better on the horizon instead of this dud of a technology. Any updates on Intel's Light Peak Technology?