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> Does anyone care about Gbps for USB? I've never hit the bandwith limitation on USB and see USB type-C as just an annoyance making me buy new cables. External
by wlesieutre 8y ago
> Does anyone care about Gbps for USB? I've never hit the bandwith limitation on USB and see USB type-C as just an annoyance making me buy new cables.
External SSDs are probably the only time it matters, or even multiple drives connected through a USB hub.
- josephg 8y agoYou don't need an SSD to get benefit from the transfer speeds of USB3. Decent hard drives support linear read speeds of ~160MB/sec. USB2 will throttle that to 40MB/sec after protocol overheads. I've also run into this using external ethernet adapters, which I still want when I'm copying large files or streaming video via airplay or steam. My last 3 laptops were missing inbuilt ethernet ports. USB 2, while much faster than the wifi speeds available at the time, only supports half the bandwidth of gigabit ethernet.
- wlesieutre 8y agoDo you need to go from 10 Gbps USB3 up to 20 for a hard disk?