Do I need USB 3?
The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a connector that everybody needs. We use it every day for connecting printers, modems and speakers, but most importantly we all use it for USB memory keys, the replacement for the humble floppy disk. Every notebook on the market today sports one or more USB 2.0 ports, but the new kid on the block, USB3.0, is starting to show up but is it worth the price premium?
USB3.0 works the same way as the existing USB2.0 ports, but much, much faster. Theoretically up to 10x the speed, but in reality the difference isn’t so great. Our testing with new USB 3.0 hard disk drives show that you can triple the speed of transferring data to and from external hard disk drives and memory keys.
