Say what?
Say what?
Posted Jun 11, 2009 22:51 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333)In reply to: Say what? by martinfick
Parent article: Linux first to offer USB 3.0 driver (Linux Devices)
* This. *
This is the answer.
The guy f*d up on the math, did a typo, or simply lacked understanding. I regularly see speeds of 10-20MBps on fast flash devices over USB 2.0.
Sure there is overhead to maintaining USB devices, but your looking at 10-20% overhead, not 90%. That's worse then Wifi which your lucky to get data transfer at 50% of the speed your connected at.
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