Modular bay built-in with USB 3.0 board and 2 connectors
For years, the USB 2.0 has been firmly entrenched as the de facto interface standard in the PC world with about 6 billion devices sold, and yet still the need for more speed grows by ever faster computing hardware and ever greater bandwidth demands. The USB 3.0 finally has the answer to the consumers demands with a theoretically 10 times more faster than its predecessor. In a nutshell, USB 3.0 features are as the following:
- Higher transfer rates (up to 4.8 Gbps)
- Increased maximum bus power and increased device current draw to better accommodate power-hungry devices
- New power management features
- Full-duplex data transfers and support for new transfer types
USB 3.0 has been carefully planned from the start to peacefully co-exist with USB 2.0. First of all, while USB 3.0 specifies new physical connections and thus new cables to take advantage of the higher speed capability of the new protocol, the connector itself remains the same rectangular shape with the four USB 2.0 contacts in the exact same location as before. Five new connections to carry receive and transmitted data independently are present on USB 3.0 cables and only come into contact when connected to a proper SuperSpeed USB connection.