goodbye SATA hard drives????

USB 3.0 is gonna be coming out uh i think very late this year or sometime next year. it will be 10x faster then USB 2.0 which will put it up to 4.8GB/S (i think thats wat it is anyways) or would having a RAID setup be better, i really dont understand RAID all to much but i see alot of people with RAID setups

heres a link

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9780794-7.html

theres a bunch of others if you just google USB 3.0 but i dont feel like going to all of them right now and checking out their cuz im downloading a game (2 moons, any1 know if its good?) and its making my internet really slow

 

Thanks for the heads up

 

usb 3.0 will not have anything to do with raid or internal hard drives. it will be for flash drives cameras portable hard drives. INternal hard drives will continue to use sata 3.0.

 

USB3 is going to rock, but all it'll do is make external hard drives catch up to the speed of internal ones. The speed of hard drives these days is about 0.6-0.7Gbits/s - the S-ATA bus is hardly being overwhelmed. Internally, the drives are the limitation now, not the interface. Externally though, I welcome this.

 

wont that be nice when memory cards reach high speeds and capacities?

imagine carrying your whole hard drive on a 100 gig flash drive and no matter where youre at you can plug into USB3 boot to your own OS on any computer and it'll be identical to home

just a thought

 

You have heard of 2.5" USB-powered external hard drives right? It's only the speed we're lacking.

 

i know USB 3.0 wont have anything to do with internal hard drivers or a raid setup, i was just saying wouldnt it be better just having a USB3.0 hard drive then a SATA internal hard drive? i wasnt exactly sure what RAID does but i herd its suppose to be alot faster then just a single drive. i was wondering if it would be faster to use USB3.0 or a SATA RAID setup?

 

I highly doubt you'll be able to RAID using USB3, it doesn't quite work that way. Also, RAID does increase transfer rates, but it has other disadvantages.

 

it would still be faster to use raid. usb 3 will not improve speed of the drive just the speed of the connector. so an external 7200rpm usb 3 drive will be about the same performance as an internal 7200rpm sata 3 drive.