Digital Home Thoughts: Now Available - USB 3.0 Specifications

"Intel finally announced the availability of the draft specification for the USB 3.0 host controller. Intel dubbed the specification the Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI). The USB 3.0 architecture is also known as SuperSpeed USB. The USB 3.0 specification promises to increase performance by 10 times what USB 2.0 is capable of. USB 3.0 or SuperSpeed USB promises bandwidth in the 600 MB/s second range. Products utilizing USB 3.0 are expected to arrive in 2009 or 2010. USB 3.0 is also backwards compatible with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1."

As always, faster is better and 10x faster will sure make for some lightning fast data transfers. I'm curious how quickly the standard will be picked up once available. I remember jumping on USB 2.0 and installing a card to add it to my desktop and laptop so I could make quicker backups and such, but at this point, I don't know that I'd make the switch until it came built in on my next machine.