Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “USB 3.0 – Everything You Need to Know in About a Minute”.
Welcome to techwiki i’m linus and on today’s episode of one minute or less we’re going to tell you everything you need to know about usb3. The main advantage of usb3 is speed. It is up to 10 times faster than the last generation usb2, and while it’s only half as fast as some other technologies such as thunderbolt, it is universally compatible. It’S right in the name, so it’s backwards compatible with usb2 and you don’t need a special computer to take advantage of it. If you’re not sure, if your device supports usb3, you can check the manufacturer specifications or another easy way to tell is check the inside of the connector.
The key that keeps you from putting it in the wrong way is usually blue on usb 3 devices. Now most usb3 devices these days are storage devices, because that’s where you can take advantage of that extra performance. However, there are other devices that are available, such as things like external video capture devices that usb 2 is not fast enough for, but usb 3 is. I often get asked where to plug a usb device into the simple answer is because of that backwards compatibility it doesn’t matter.
All you do is plug the usb drive into the usb port, which is usually easy to recognize because it has a blue color-coded key on it or if that’s not present, you can look inside the connector to see if there’s additional pins, your computer will also usually Prompt you if you install a usb 3 device into a usb 2 port, saying, hey, you’ve got usb 3 ports. If you want to take advantage of that extra speed switch it over to that. Thanks for checking out this episode of one minute or less we’d love for you to share these videos with anyone you can think of who would benefit from the information, including embedding it in your website. Don’T forget to subscribe to techquicky for more videos like this and please like the video by clicking the little button below it, helps us out a lot.
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