Timeline for Does a USB 3.0 connection require a USB 3.0 cord?
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| Oct 3, 2018 at 16:32 | comment | added | fixer1234 | @JosephRogers, you're right. The USB port will be a bottleneck as long as it's slower than the peak transfer rate. You don't need to saturate it; performance will be degraded if the peaks exceed the bandwidth. On a good hard drive, that can be several times the USB 2.0 limit. With a good drive, you can benefit from USB 3.0's 10X speed, but you won't realize 10x the transfer rate. That was poor wording in my comment. | |
| Oct 3, 2018 at 10:13 | comment | added | Joseph Rogers | @fixer1234 unless it's an SSD you wont get anywhere near 10x the speed, even a really good spinning disk is going to top out somewhere around the 100MB/s mark. If it's a cheap or old drive it might well not even saturate USB2. | |
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| Jul 22, 2015 at 19:18 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 11, 2015 at 3:44 | comment | added | fixer1234 | @Bilo: If you plug it into a USB 3 port it should work (a USB 2 port limits the current output to 500mA). But that's a waste of a USB 3 port. You would be better off getting a USB 3 enclosure for the drive and taking advantage of 10x the speed. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 18:25 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 10, 2015 at 17:22 | comment | added | Bilo | Just a quick question, what about if I have a usb 2.0 harddrive with Y-cable, can I replace with USB 3.0 cable for a better current? | |
| Jul 9, 2015 at 22:45 | comment | added | undefined | +1 extra pins/cores are required in USB3 to reach the higher rate. | |
| Jul 9, 2015 at 8:27 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2015 at 5:17 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2015 at 21:31 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | And note the reverse on power: I have a USB2 device that draws too much power, it originally had a two-headed cable that let it draw power from two ports at once. Now it's fed from a single USB3 port with no gripes about drawing too much. | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 19:26 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2015 at 16:55 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2015 at 16:13 | comment | added | fixer1234 | @arielnmz: To achieve USB 3 speeds, the specs define the performance characteristics the wire needs to meet. I'm not familiar with whether UTP could meet the requirements, but the spec is here: intel.com/content/dam/doc/technical-specification/… | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 16:05 | comment | added | arielnmz | What about UTP? superuser.com/questions/937437/… | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 16:01 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2015 at 15:42 | comment | added | Francisco Tapia | yep, it works with legacy USB speeds using legacy cords. | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 15:38 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2015 at 15:32 | history | answered | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |