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> How else should you know whether your device can go at its full advertised speed? Just say what speed it supports using which technology. SuperSpeed at X Gbp
by coryrc 5y ago
> How else should you know whether your device can go at its full advertised speed?
Just say what speed it supports using which technology. SuperSpeed at X Gbps, SuperSpeed+ at Y Gbps, high speed at 480 Mbps. You can only use a speed both support.
- derefr 5y agoBut in this case, say that a host supports only 3.2 Gen 2(x1), and a client device supports only 3.2 Gen 1x2. Both would advertise a relatively-higher speed, but it wouldn't just be that you'd get the lower of the two speeds; rather, you'd get a speed lower than either claim. And IMHO this isn't some weird exception; standards are often like this. This is is the reason people care to know exactly which subprotocols their devices are capable of negotiating, rather than just knowing the generation of support.
- Dylan16807 5y agoBut that's a lot of words and they already knew people don't say those terms. 2, 3, 3.1, are much easier to say, and there was no consumer-benefitting reason to undermine those terms.