With transfer speeds of 480Mbps USB 3.0 offers up to 40 times greater bandwith than previous USB formats such as 1.1. The best thing about it is that USB 3.0 is backwards compatible, so even though there are few devices out there at the moment which will use the full potential of USB 3.0, your USB 2.0 devices will still benefit from faster transfer speeds.

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