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Can you plug a USB 3.0 cable to a plug in one computer and plug it into another?

thanks for the reply.
The one you showed me is a USB2.0 do they make one for 3.0?
I have tried google.
 
Ethernet is too slow.
I saw the debugging cable in my search.
Why has no one come out with a transfer cable?
 
Ethernet is too slow.
I saw the debugging cable in my search.
Why has no one come out with a transfer cable?
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1 Gbps Ethernet is too slow for you, but USB 3.0 isn't? Have you actually benchmarked USB 3.0 performance or are you eyeballing based on 5 Gbps theoretical limits? If you have fantasies of pushing 500 MB/s over usb 3.0, let me disabuse you of those notions right now. 😀
 
ethernet varies from 10 MBps to 100,000 MBps (100GBps) depending on the type of ethernet cable and other factors.
 
Essence_of_War said:
1 Gbps Ethernet is too slow for you, but USB 3.0 isn't? Have you actually benchmarked USB 3.0 performance or are you eyeballing based on 5 Gbps theoretical limits? If you have fantasies of pushing 500 MB/s over usb 3.0, let me disabuse you of those notions right now. 😀
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^^This

I will however say I have had a standard issue Intel XHCI controller do 437MB/s. But that's using UASP and an SSD...

BirdDad said:
How many MBps is ethernet?
last I heard USb 3.0 was 180MBps
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Theoretically 125MB/s, but overhead and all the various factors related to networking will lower that. 100MB/s is realistic.

This of course assumes your HDD/SSDs can can actually read/write data that fast...

USB 3.0 is good for ~200MB/s in "standard" mode, and ~400MB/s using UASP.

dbcooper1 said:
Firewire is another option for a dedicated peer to peer connection if available on both systems.
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Not on Vista and newer. MS removed the Firewire network drivers.
 
OP, it might help if you explained what exactly you're trying to do.

USB 3.0 is good for ~200MB/s in "standard" mode, and ~400MB/s using UASP.
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I've never used UASP, but that sounds about right for my experience with "standard" mode. With SSDs at both ends I've seen 200 MB/s, and with spinners I've seen between 100-150 MB/s for large files.
 
Essence_of_War said:
I've never used UASP, but that sounds about right for my experience with "standard" mode. With SSDs at both ends I've seen 200 MB/s, and with spinners I've seen between 100-150 MB/s for large files.
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I can recommend it. But it requires both driver (Win8+ or special 7 driver) and hardware support, however device manufacturers aren't shy about such support.

100-150MB/s is pretty normal for HDDs as they aren't interface limited on USB3 except for burst speed if used on a SATA2-to-USB3 controller. SATA3-to-USB3 w/UASP is very close to native SATA3 performance.
 
If both machines have Gigabit ethernet, that would be the way to go. Too many variables (not the least of which are USB 3 chip and cable length) with USB.
 
DigDog said:
a plug n play pc2pc connection is LONG overdue.
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It's ethernet. Basically every computer out there now has that crossover cable auto negotiation, so you don't even need special crossover cables, just connect two machines with a straight ethernet cable, configure networking, and let 'er rip.

Apple Macintosh computers have traditionally had some kind of Target Disk Mode where the computer could pretend to be an external hard drive. SCSI, Firewire, Thunderbolt, and USB are supported, depending on the model.
 
not really. you still need to map the other pc to a network. it's not that hard, but it's still annoying and not something an untrained user could do. unless they google it.
(but then you could probably google how to perform open heart surgery)

also, not all computers have dual ethernet; what we need is a proper, USB-like cable and an OS that will allow simple file transfer, just like an external storage.

i'm aware that mac did this - i used to own a 8.1 mac. still to big a price to pay, owning a mac, for this kind of functionality.
 
Meh. Most people only have one computer anyway.

The older I get, the more I come to the conclusion that I live a charmed life and most people exist in a shit-zone somewhere between "Trailer Park Boys" and "Honey Boo Boo", at least as far as culture, education, and being "wired" go.
 
well, the internet turned out pretty well for moving files around, but there's still that "friend's laptop vs home pc" that yearns for simplified pc2pc connection.
 
DigDog said:
well, the internet turned out pretty well for moving files around, but there's still that "friend's laptop vs home pc" that yearns for simplified pc2pc connection.
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For as often as that happens, I think most people are happy with thumb drives.

I mean, yeah, I kinda see what you're talking about, but nobody's ever complained (to me anyway) about how inconvenient and difficult to use thumb drives are.
 
dave_the_nerd said:
For as often as that happens, I think most people are happy with thumb drives. I mean, yeah, I kinda see what you're talking about, but nobody's ever complained (to me anyway) about how inconvenient and difficult to use thumb drives are.
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That is the current version of the "sneaker net." 🙂
 
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