Finally, A Faster USB! For the first time in over 8 years, Universal Serial Bus, or USB for short, is finally getting an upgrade. The non-profit group formed by various manufacturers to set the standard is scheduled to announce the new USB 3.0 standard.
The difference? About 10 times the speed. The new USB 3.0 standard supports a 10 fold increase in data transfer speeds versus its cousin, USB 2.0. In fact, that's faster than firewire, and could signal the beginning of the end to te firewire standard. USB truly started the plug and play revolution, and has been more widely accepted by computer users than firewire.
How does this play into your business? Well, your employees won't be sitting around waiting on files to transfer to thumb drives. Which means increased employee productivity. For those of you who utilize external hard drives for backups of server data, now the backups will take considerably less time. This translates into a better chance of having a valid backup since it won't take all night to backup your company data.
This, is truly good news for the computing industry.
To Your Success,
Tim