Does moving content from digital devices to your computer feel like you’re watching the lifecycle of a butterfly agonisingly unfold before your very eyes? To speed things up, and not just by a little, ASUS has launched USB 3.0 or SuperSpeed USB ports in its motherboards, laptops and soon, desktops.
SuperSpeed USB is truly a speed champion. According to the USB Implementers Forum – a non-profit organization of companies developing and promoting the USB interface – SuperSpeed USB provides up to 10 times the data rate as compared to the previous USB 2.0 standard.
What this means is transferring large files such as HD videos, songs, pictures, and volumes of data from your latest gadgets and devices takes only a fraction of the usual thumb-twiddling time – mere seconds even. For example, transferring a 25GB HD movie, in its full glory, now takes only 70 seconds!
On top of that, SuperSpeed USB has power management features that throttle down power supplied to attached devices according to the activity detected. This is certainly a good way to help you save on your electricity bills and reduce your carbon footprint – and please a few tree huggers.
Not to be outdone, the other major motherboard makers are also scrambling their R&D teams to add on this latest enhancement. However, with its zeal for innovation – a hallmark since its early years as a growing OEM – ASUS is leading the industry by being one of the first motherboard makers to incorporate SuperSpeed USB with the ASUS P6X58D Premium.
How does ASUS achieve such feats of impossible speed? It employs a PCI Express bridge chip to expand the communication lanes within the motherboard, effectively eliminating bottlenecks in data traffic – a bit like a super highway with extra lanes.
So why wait any longer? Get on the SuperSpeed USB express and move that heavy content.
March 19th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
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