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USB 3.0 coming soon… or maybe not that soon
As it stands today, USB 2.0 has a transfer rate of 480Mbps (mega-bits per second) which is exactly 60MBps (mega-bytes per second). From there we can go to Apple’s Firewire 800, which as you’ve guess it can transfer 800Mbps. And then finally, there’s eSata, a whopping 3Gbps (giga-bits per second).
So those are your choices when it comes to interfaces between your external hardware (like you hard drive, USB flash drive etc) and your computer. eSata has to be connected to a SATA port on your motherboard which limits them to mainly being used for hard drive, and Firewire costs around 25 cents more per port to make, so they’re hardly every used for anything except video cameras.
