On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 22:16 -0700, William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
> (I'm not sure I see the point of  
> USB3, given eSATA and ethernet.  But then I didn't really see the  
> point of USB2 when there was firewire, either.  I guess I'm just a  
> luddite...)

As is so often the case people don't see the "need" for a faster
interface, until a few years later applications that weren't even
thought of are common place.

eSATA is OK for mass storage (some machines have plug and play issues),
nothing else.

Ethernet is SLOW, even gigabit is routinely saturated by even modest
RAID arrays, never mind SSD based storage (some single SSDs can easily
saturate a gigabit link).

USB3, aside from these applications, will allow for things that work
very poorly now (USB video cards come to mind) and for things we haven't
even though of as being useful.

TTYL

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