When you see the final specifications for USB 3.0 and the first samples of devices supporting this standard, high-speed USB is ready to be commercialized.

According to the source, the first model to appear on the market of Taiwanese manufacturers that are planning to release several models of laptops and computers to support the new standard, promising to increase data transmission speeds up to 5Gbit / s, which is about 10 times the speed of USB 2.0.

Given the rapid development in IT-market, we can expect the release of the first USB 3.0-compatible devices by the end of this year and in 2010 the market will be a variety of such devices. One of the first uses of new high-speed interface to external storage.

Unfortunately, the first device with USB 3.0 are unlikely to fully realize the potential of this interface is likely they will reach only the speed of 1.2Gbit / s. Nevertheless, it will be a significant increase in data transfer speed compared to previous versions of USB, which will perform with greater speed copying and recording of data, as well as allowing to play HD-video with an external drive.