{"id":881,"date":"2010-01-25T11:28:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T15:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=881"},"modified":"2010-01-25T11:28:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T15:28:40","slug":"usb-3-0-devices-begin-hitting-the-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/25\/usb-3-0-devices-begin-hitting-the-shelves\/","title":{"rendered":"USB 3.0 Devices Begin Hitting The Shelves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>USB 3.0 <\/strong>devices begin hitting the stores this week.\u00a0 What exactly is USB 3.0?\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s an upgrade of USB 2.0.\u00a0 Currently most computers, external hard drives, Flash drives and video cameras use USB 2.0 ports.\u00a0 With USB 3.0, you gain considerable speed in transferring large files to and from your computer.<\/p>\n<p>This speed increase can vary from device to device, with manufacturers claiming speed increases anywhere from 3x to 10x over USB 2.0<\/p>\n<p>For example, a new USB 3.0 external hard drive from Seagate, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seagate.com\/www\/en-us\/products\/external\/blackarmor\/blackarmor_ps_110_usb3\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BlackArmor PS 100<\/strong><\/a>, claims you can transfer a 25GB HD video to the drive in just 4.2 minutes&#8230;compared to 13.9 minutes with a USB 2.0 external hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>As with any new technology, USB 3.0 is starting with a trickle.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hp.com\/united-states\/campaigns\/envy\/index.html?jumpid=ex_r11260_go\/envy\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>HP Envoy<\/strong><\/a> is currently the only laptop to ship with USB 3.0 ports.\u00a0 But by the end of the year this new technology should have a firm hold&#8230;and Firewire ports (the longtime standard for speed when it comes to external hard drives) will be on their way out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USB 3.0 devices begin hitting the stores this week.\u00a0 What exactly is USB 3.0?\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s an upgrade of USB 2.0.\u00a0 Currently most computers, external hard drives, Flash drives and video cameras use USB 2.0 ports.\u00a0 With USB 3.0, you gain considerable speed in transferring large files to and from your computer. This speed increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[425,426,424],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}