<p>USB 2.0 with its 480 Mbps theoritical bandwidth has become ubiquitous in PCs of all sizes and shapes. However, unwary consumers may not be getting the high-bandwidth devices they believe they are ...

The fastest speed for a USB thumb drive is always changing as newer, faster drives are manufactured. Theoretically, as of August 2013 USB thumb drives using the USB 3.0 standard can peak out at 600 ...

Some people call it a pen drive or a jump drive. Others call it a thumb drive, a keychain drive, or even a memory stick, but we just call it a USB Flash drive (UFD). We speculated in our Flash drive ...

USB port colors range from black and blue to red and purple. Each color has its own meaning, which is worth understanding if ...

The universal serial bus (USB) enables users to connect plug-and-play devices to a PC, but different kinds of USB exist. USB 1.0 and 1.1 are older versions of the interface that are much slower than ...

The USB Promoter Group has announced USB4 Version 2.0, a forthcoming specification that will double the speed of the 40 Gbps transmission limit of the current USB4 spec over USB-C. The specification ...

USB is the most successful interface in the history of the PC. It has an installed base of more than 6 billion units worldwide. It has virtually 100% adoption in PCs and peripherals. High-speed USB ...

Notebooks tend not to get upgrades as often as desktops. For the most part our desktops are easy to work on and swapping out a processor, memory or HDD can be done in just a few minutes. It is ...

While it's fantastic that the USB-C governing body is improving the USB spec, the ongoing lack of a strict labeling requirement will make a bad situation worse. Stop us if you've heard this before.

Intel’s Jeff Ravencraft, who is also president of the USB Implementers Forum, discussed more details about USB 3.0 today at the Storage Visions conference in Las Vegas. The focus of the new spec is ...

In the last 14 years, the Universal Serial Bus (USB) has become the standard interface to connect devices to a computer. Whether it’s an external hard drive, a camera, the mouse, a printer, or a ...