Gigabyte adds USB 3.0, 6Gbps SATA to AMD boards

[Vicenarian]

...So when USB 6.0 comes out, will they use 666 to advertise their products?

With the amount of digital media devices (digital camcorders, external hard drives, etc) in use today by the general public, this should gain widespread acceptance. Right now, most devices are stick with USB 2.0, which, in a real life scenario, really only transfers data at 20-30 MBps in my experience. (or maybe I just have too many USB devices hogging my USB bus width). Basically, it just takes too long to transfer 50 or so GB of files to your USB 2.0 HDD.

I thought eSATA would be more popular than it is today, as it seems it hasn't gained that great a share of the consumer electronics market other than a few select external hard drives. Sure, a few laptops come with eSATA interfaces, and you could always buy an extension card for your desktop, but really, what consumer electronics devices readily come with eSATA interfaces other than external HDDs (and then only a select few)? That leads me even more to believe that USB 3.0 will be the standard interface in the area of digital media and external storage for the next few years.

 

[codefeenix]

This is good news for me, I plan to upgrade my AMD system.
Currently none of the AM3 boards out there are to my liking.
This will probably be my next mobo.

 

[mattfrompa]

I personally have not had a good experience with Gigabyte motherboards, despite their popularity with some. I recently shipped one of their mobos back for an RMA, and used an old Asus mobo box I had lying around, since it fit perfectly. They shipped it back in the same Asus box, but cut it and turned it inside out, so now it was a brown box with a Gigabyte sticker on it. Sounds like something I would do haha

 

[Timonius]

eSATA lacks the kind of popularity expected because it isn't plug and play.

 

[saintbodhisatva]

When USB 3.0 finally comes out.. USB 4.0 will be announced

 

[Basher]

Ahh, this stuff couldn't be coming out at a better time. I've been thinking about upgrading in a year and there should be quite a bit of support in 2010.

 

[Razerblade]

This looks very nice indeed! I think ill be looking at one of these when i come round to upgrading my machine. I can't wait until USB 3.0 devices are available!

 

[Hyperian]

eSATA seems like an after thought to marketing teams when SATA came out, even if it's faster, if they never advertise it no one will know. no average user knows what a SATA cable is either, at least they've seen USB cable and know what one looks like.

i can't wait for USB3 to come out with cameras and such. file transfer with external storage would be so much faster.

 

[sky_could_fall]

it will pass atleast 2 yrs before USB 3.0 becomes standard and in that period they will invent usb 4.0 It`s like that from the beginig of PC`s

 

[yorro]

Technology moves so fast the even predictions get squashed by a year in advance.

 

[PNagy]

I hope these new standards will be widely used on an acceptable prize-level. The most external drives using USB2 now and more speed will make them more useful. Mostly the DVD drives

 

[yangly18]

It's definatly a nice thing to see that technology is still moving up. USB 3 will be a part of my new desktop when it's time.

 

[levar]

Wow I'd love to get my hands on one of those boards.

 

[BlackIrish]

Motherboard makers are using third party (I think made by NEC) USB 3.0 chipsets, so that's why you see this board here (also some other Intel P55 and X58 USB 3.0 boards).

Anyway, this is great for AMD - hopefully it will help them with their sales!

 

[redtigerdragon]

Vicenarian said:
...So when USB 6.0 comes out, will they use 666 to advertise their products?

With the amount of digital media devices (digital camcorders, external hard drives, etc) in use today by the general public, this should gain widespread acceptance. Right now, most devices are stick with USB 2.0, which, in a real life scenario, really only transfers data at 20-30 MBps in my experience. (or maybe I just have too many USB devices hogging my USB bus width). Basically, it just takes too long to transfer 50 or so GB of files to your USB 2.0 HDD.

I thought eSATA would be more popular than it is today, as it seems it hasn't gained that great a share of the consumer electronics market other than a few select external hard drives. Sure, a few laptops come with eSATA interfaces, and you could always buy an extension card for your desktop, but really, what consumer electronics devices readily come with eSATA interfaces other than external HDDs (and then only a select few)? That leads me even more to believe that USB 3.0 will be the standard interface in the area of digital media and external storage for the next few years.

I agree with this statement. I was bummed E-SATA didn't catch on, but just as apple learned with 1394, USB is king.

On another note, I read an article showing that while the new USB standard has significant improvement, the new SATA one...not so much.

 

[drasho]

im planning on upgrading my coputer around january next years... so theres gonna be more choice for usb 3.0 =)

 

[vangrat]

I am going to have to agree with Kibaruk on this, I thought that there was a halt by Intel on this or some such, did I miss something?

 

[harby]

I'm not to fussed about USB 3 and SATA 6gb right now. It'll take anywhere from 12 to 18 (my estimate) for devices to become mainstream. Until then I see no point to invent on an expensive mobo today for controllers I don't need instead of just buying a cheap controller card when the need arises.

 

[guyfred26]

Great deal with anyone buying new Motherboard who like to try the new USB 3 speed. This will help boost transfes speed from and external drive to the internal hard disk. Only question so far will be the price. We just have ti wait until the price went down before and ordinary consumer can afford this feature.

 

[Inioch]

Deso said:
more amd boards...?
how about making a version of UD6 that can have USB 3.0 and 6gbps sata without having to disable the slot 2,3 PCI-E graphics card slots?
I mean seriously, its a 250 dollar board, people who spend that much money on a board are probably gonna spend a lot on graphics cards too since it has 3 PCI-E slots, and it only use the 3.0 usb and the new sata when *ONE* graphics card is used.
anyone with me?

Hear hear. Maybe should have used a bit more time working out these problems instead of pushing it out so quickly, but with flaws.

 

[helpra]

Is a bit premature buy a board with USB 3.0. There are few devices that can supported it, and price is very high. I think now USB 3.0 is only for enthusiastic people.

 

[jerry53]

usb 3.0.... its nice to see that atleast someone is pushing tech forward other than sticking with what they have and saying"it works for me i dont need anything new"while in my place people in browsing centers dont even have usb 2.0.

 

[WakeMO]

FINALLY! USB 3.0 is amazing and I dont know why it hasnt taken off for so long

 

[Guest]

What we won't see is *Intel* supporting USB 3.0 *in* their own chipsets until 2011. Other vendors can and are implementing it now with an additional chip.