RoboGrassanoid

o that's great news. with usb's current ubiquity i havent heard much news from the esata camp.

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xeeki

No, but that doesn't answer why eSATA would "hopefully" be killed.

Nautilus

there is alredy an external video card: Fujitsu AMILO. Fujitsu produced HD3870 based one for laptops using ATI XGP Technology. It looks like an ADSL modem and uses AC input for power.

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amay200

Yay USB 3.0 .... wait....
current hard drives won't come close to utilizing the available bandwith (they don't use the bandwith available on sata 3gbs, SSDs come close...)

Performance wise we won't see a difference with external hard drives until they catch up to SSDs (or SSDs become the dominant for of storage), so the only difference between eSata and USB is USB can carry power (which is really cool if it can carry enough power to power a HD/DVD/whatever... Think about cutting down on case clutter! routing 1 wire instead of 2... now that is cool

but until we see devices begining to catch up to available bandwith... we will not see performance increases over eSata

azt3c

what would the use of the USB 3.0 be ? would be only to make HDD transfers a bit faster ?
most of the pendrives only transfer 20mb/s... now a day...

what use can be done by a 600MB transfer ???

ooohh.. i get it.. would be for when the SSD external are afortable and the transfers would go up to 200mb or more..

am i right ? :S

PS: would we see USB 3.0 pendrives faster than 30mb/s ??

gonX

mB = Megabytes
mb = megabits
Notice the capitalization.

USB 2.0 currently has a bandwidth limitation of 60 mB/s, so it's not going to be any different for your pendrives. USB 3.0 has a bandwidth limitation of around 500 mB/s.

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azt3c

i'm just wondering what good comes with this.

gonX

It could be used for bandwidth intensive applications, like external graphics cards.

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azt3c

what is the % of users with external Graphic cards ?
0.000000000000000001 is my guess...

(is not a bad idea for gaming notebooks or use them as GPU rendering/etc)
but i don't think we will see high end gpu for external use.
plus it would need a lot more that 500ish mB/s

DuckieHo

USB 3.0 latency and overhead will prevent it from being used for external graphics cards or primary HD interconnect.

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