windows 8 and usb 3.0

[biostud]

I just saw a news article stating: 'Great news for consumers, win 8 will support USB 3.0'

I was just wondering why this would be considered interesting. Isn't it as obvious as win 8 will support mouse and keyboard input?

 

[ViRGE]

Until it's in writing, nothing is set in stone. This isn't anything to get particularly excited about, but it's nice to have official confirmation from MS.

 

[marino.DV]

a random question
what other benefits except a better speed you can have from USB 3 technology

 

[ViRGE]

a random question
what other benefits except a better speed you can have from USB 3 technology

That's pretty much it. The only other significant change is that USB 3 requires ports to support 900mA (4.5W) for connected devices, whereas USB 2 only required 500mA (2.5W).

 

[gmaster456]

I'm I the only one who thinks USB 3 support isn't much of an announcement? It'd be stupid of them not to.

 

[corkyg]

Sort of goes under the heading of "Duh!"

 

[gevorg]

I already have USB3 on W7. Whats so special about "native" support?

 

[gmaster456]

I already have USB3 on W7. Whats so special about "native" support?

So they can add it to their list of other underwhelming features.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I already have USB3 on W7. Whats so special about "native" support?

So that you can load boot-time storage drivers off of a USB3 flash drive, rather than requiring you to use a USB2 port and flash drive.

 

[Oyeve]

I already have USB3 on W7. Whats so special about "native" support?

Think of it as the win95 USB Supplement to OSR2. Remember that? Well, win98 fixed that, so win8 will fix that from win7.

 

[Wangstang]

As thumb drives keep getting larger and larger with faster speeds, do you guys think we will see motherboards with internal USB ports so thumb drives can be used as cheap SSD's....Run your OS off of an internal 8 gig thumb drive and keep everything else on seperate drives runing raid.

Wes

 

[lamedude]

Native support means no need to use that NEC driver.
It took until Win7 until MS supported Firewire800 and Vista support was in writing.

 

[yinan]

As thumb drives keep getting larger and larger with faster speeds, do you guys think we will see motherboards with internal USB ports so thumb drives can be used as cheap SSD's....Run your OS off of an internal 8 gig thumb drive and keep everything else on seperate drives runing raid.

Wes

Servers already do this for ESXi.