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The USB 3.1 gen1 and gen2 thing still really boggles my mind. It's almost as if the USB-IF was trying to confuse people. Who retroactively renames a standard?
by sesutton 10y ago
The USB 3.1 gen1 and gen2 thing still really boggles my mind. It's almost as if the USB-IF was trying to confuse people. Who retroactively renames a standard?
- nimish 10y agoYeah it's one of the stupidest choices they made. Also, the idea that not all cables must support 100W (20V, 5A) so now the cheap chinese cables are all going to report they can but will catch fire the instant they do.
- sfoskett 10y agoWell they did change the encoding of USB 3.0 to become USB 3.1 gen 1. But that's about it. And it's backward-compatible so it doesn't matter. Having the higher data rate be "same name gen 2" is beyond dumb.
- pitaj 10y agoThey should have just named things this way: USB 3.1 gen1 => USB 3.1, USB 3.1 gen2 => USB 3.2 I don't know why they would do differently.
- Tempest1981 10y agoAgreed, 3 levels of versioning is too much for most users. Even 2 levels isn't ideal when dealing with a novice user. - Good: Thunderbolt 1, 2, 3 - Good: USB, USB-2, USB-3 - OK: DisplayPort 1.2, 1.3 - OK: HDMI 1.2, 1.3a, 1.4, 2.0 - Bad: USB Hi-Speed, SuperSpeed, SuperSpeed+ - Bad: USB-3.1 gen 1, USB-3.1 gen 2, ... - Bad: LEV, ULEV, SULEV, PZEV, AT-PZEV