The USB (Universal Serial Bus) has been the most preferred connection port. It has been used in a variety of devices like keyboard/mouse, printer, scanner, flash drives, external hard drives, joysticks and possibly most of all PC peripheral devices. Due to its popularity, it has made its way outside the PC standards too like DVD players, etc.
So far USB has crossed 2 generations and is now on 2.0 standards. The USB 3.0 promoters have announced that the USB 3.0 specification has been completed and that devices with USB 3.0 will arrive in the market in a year’s time.
The possible advantages of USB 3.0 are obviously better transfer speeds and better power management. The standard will be able to offer much better transfer speeds which current external hard disks achieve by eSATA interface. It will pin-compatible with current USB ports and will have backward compatibility.
Awkwardly the standard has been named as SuperSpeed which I feel is a totally ridiculously name. Already the common people don’t know the difference between a Full-speed and hi-speed USB standards, and this is all set to take the confusion levels to an all new level.
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