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- d0ugfunny, on 11/15/2008, -3/+220will that make my USB Humping Dog go faster?
- lostngone, on 11/16/2008, -0/+196Ok so we now have..
1.0 Low speed USB
1.1 Full speed USB
2.0 High speed USB
and now 3.0 Super speed USB
Whats next after that 4.0 Ludicrous speed USB?? - asudhir, on 11/15/2008, -1/+133excellent, finally. wait, when will HDDs or SSDs catch up?
- duckley, on 11/16/2008, -4/+97Now, if they can only get a connector that you don't have flip over again and again to figure out which way it goes in.
TERRIBLE connector! - Barbarino, on 11/16/2008, -1/+83It's going to get so fast, you'll go plaid!
- nakile, on 11/16/2008, -5/+82Death of Firewire? What about Firewire 3200?
- rotten777, on 11/16/2008, -4/+74if you have to flip it more than once, well... you may need to find a new hobby
- Garofoli, on 11/16/2008, -3/+65From another article http://digg.com/hardware/25GB_in_70_seconds_with_U ...
Quoting Carterx:
"USB 1.1 = 9.3 hours
USB 2.0 = 13.9 minutes
USB 3.0 = 70 seconds " - dsmx, on 11/16/2008, -0/+54Light speed
Ridiculous speed
Ludicrous speed - opticwind, on 11/16/2008, -0/+41Barely? USB2.0 barely reaches half the writing speed of an HDD.
- inactive, on 11/16/2008, -1/+34Someone hasn't visited Digg in the past week.
- denkc, on 11/16/2008, -4/+30I know you're joking, but if you'd like a serious answer ... your humping dog runs off the power pin that your USB port provides, there's no data transfer (that's what she said?) of course.
- inactive, on 11/16/2008, -1/+27That's funny, this has already been on the front page of Digg.
- TehProphet, on 11/16/2008, -0/+23I guess someone could mod the dog and use a smaller resistor, then it should theoretically hump faster if the motor can take the extra current.
- TidusX, on 11/16/2008, -0/+23"Light speed is too slow, we're are going to have to go right to ludicrous speed!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB7tc9pVvYg - MikeSD34, on 11/16/2008, -0/+19It's out there, you just have to look for it. It just doesn't get the same attention as USB 3.0 (you know, like firewire 400/800 doesn't get the same attention as USB 1.1/2.0).
- lumaga, on 11/16/2008, -0/+19"almost" or "close to"
- crazzy88ss, on 11/16/2008, -2/+21I don't think everybody got the spaceballs reference...
- TheGuruStud, on 11/16/2008, -13/+31USB will never be greater than firewire. It's impossible until they get rid of the flawed design.
- ChaosPython, on 11/16/2008, -0/+17Haha thats the greatest little usb device ever.
- inactive, on 11/16/2008, -3/+19@guytoronto, you need to learn what "fairly" means.
- NathanielJ, on 11/16/2008, -1/+17So what? USB2.0 transfers at roughly half the speed that hard drives can write, so this bridges that gap and provides some future-proofing.
- MrRedneck, on 11/16/2008, -0/+16Dugg purely for spaceballs reference.
- QsheiK, on 11/16/2008, -3/+19Exactly my sentiments. Firewire is evolving the same way USB is.
- th3wiz4rd, on 11/16/2008, -1/+17If Firewire is so great, why did the geniuses that are Apple remove it from the Macbook??? I really don't mean to change the subject here, but making my job a little ***** is a ***** thing to do. Target mode this, Apple:
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..........................( - digason, on 11/16/2008, -2/+18As long as Firewire continues to offer significantly more power than USB, I'll stick with Firewire. Firewire also has the benefit of requiring fewer resources on the host than USB. I really don't understand how USB became the preferred standard. It certainly isn't superior in any significant way.
- linagee, on 11/16/2008, -0/+15@Kerath: My left or your left?
- chrisgeleven, on 11/16/2008, -2/+17Doubt it. No computer yet has USB 3.0 installed yet. I am guessing we won't see USB 3.0 for at least a year, if not longer.
- Visual77, on 11/16/2008, -0/+14No, it's one step shy of brilliance...
It needs some kind of functionality - even just a 1gb flash drive. If it served a purpose besides humping, it would be the greatest little usb device ever. - ParaSwarm, on 11/16/2008, -0/+13Except for the first guy who said "plaid".
- peligro666, on 11/16/2008, -5/+18What about it? I consider myself to be a fairly geeky person, yet I've not even heard of Firewire 3200. No to be negative or anything. :)
- HeyaBILL, on 11/16/2008, -0/+11Some of us have external hard drives with terabytes worth of "movies" and we can certainly use the speed, thank you.
- forcedfx, on 11/16/2008, -0/+11That depends on the performance of the flash memory built into the thumb drive.
- BossKey, on 11/16/2008, -2/+13Not true, unless you're using slow drives. My backups fly much faster over FIreWire 800 than USB 2.0. If USB 2 was as closely matched to drive speed as you claim, such a speed difference would not be possible, and yet it exists, and it isn't a trivial difference.
- SawButter, on 11/16/2008, -2/+13USB has been designed to be a cheap interface where constant data transfer rate doesn't matter.
Firewire has been designed to be a professional interface where constant data transfer rate does matter.
There is no competition between them, each one has its own advantage (USB: price, Firewire: quality).
I still prefer Firewire though. - zaferk, on 11/16/2008, -4/+15you speak as if ssd's were commonplace............
- lostngone, on 11/16/2008, -1/+11NOT on the new MacBooks!
- sadilak, on 11/16/2008, -6/+16USB is a failed technology. I am sure many of you have never experienced 30 - 40 mbps transfer speeds when using USB2.0. Firewire and ESata were/are much better options.
- Shruthi99, on 11/16/2008, -2/+12Lol, FOXCONN.
- MScrip, on 11/16/2008, -0/+9Why no mention of eSATA? If we're talking about transfer rates, I can only assume we're talking about hard drives, in which SATA is way faster than USB or Firewire today.
I'm trying to figure out what USB 3.0 is all about. We've already got fast internal storage, SATA. And it's easy to make it external with a bracket, to get the exact same speeds as internal, eSATA.
For hard drives, speed is king. For printers and scanners, it doesn't really matter. - celkin, on 11/16/2008, -1/+10@rotten777 That's what she said.
- geoff1210, on 11/16/2008, -0/+9FTA
"USB 3.0 will take USB 2.0 to the next level"
Oh, really? - earlvanze, on 11/16/2008, -0/+9It's funny how we're all discussing about the technical specifications of a USB Humping Dog when all we need to do is just laugh at his joke and Digg him up!
Hahahahaha
That's what she said. - doctordbx, on 11/16/2008, -3/+12Oh yeah... big failure. I mean... nobody uses it... you'd be hard pressed to find USB devices anywhere.
- alainb, on 11/16/2008, -0/+9Is this why Steve Jobs dropped Firewire support for the MacBook and instead went with USB? Maybe he had the inside scoop on USB 3.0 and hedged his bets on it.
- DuMbGuM, on 11/16/2008, -0/+8How many times will this get dugg up??
Yay usb 3.0, but we already know !! - Rantipole, on 11/16/2008, -2/+10But since USB 3.0 sports a higher wattage, will the plugged in device get more power or will it draw only as much as it was designed to originally?
- rotten777, on 11/16/2008, -1/+9No, actually TheGuruStud is right. USB uses up much more resources than Firewire. That is by design.
Remember, betamax was actually better than VHS. - spyd3rweb, on 11/16/2008, -1/+9Tiny little wires are crappy for driving speakers.
- dagamer34, on 11/16/2008, -1/+9I thought the real problem here is that the USB protocol demands so much CPU power compared to Firewire that it's impractical for HDDs anyway. As far as I know, there isn't any major circuitry in USB devices to make it more efficient.
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