$35 LAN Party...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 05:29:42PM -0500, Giles Orr wrote:
> The "Next Unit of Computing" comes equipped with "Three external USB
> 2.0 ports."  Seriously?  USB3 is readily available and three times as
> fast.  Accessing a 2TB external HD through a USB2 port is
> molasses-in-winter fun.  "Next Unit" implies progress, but all that
> seems to have changed is the size ...  Or, depending on how you look
> at it, not even that - this is essentially a fat net-top with a better
> chip.

USB3 is 10 times the speed of USB2.  Your disk of course is nowhere near
the speed of USB3 though but is faster than USB2.

Remember intel hasn't put USB3 ports in their chips yet.  All boards
with USB3 I have seen so far use external PCIe chips from other makers
(Usually ASMedia).

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Len Sorensen
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