USB4 Specification

Re:USB4 Specification by userbinator on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @08:20PM (#20872756)

The industry has decided that it is more profitable to make you buy adapters or a new device every couple of years (and create more e-waste in the process), hence the accelerating churn. And each new revision of the standard will introduce its own set of problems, guaranteeing them something to do for the next revision after that; but the churn situation with USB isn't actually that bad:

    USB 1.0 - 1996
    USB 1.1 - 1998
    USB 2.0 - 2000
    USB 3.0 - 2008
    USB 4.0 - 2019

Also, the vast majority of devices are still 1.x/2.x speed, so it might be more of a diminishing returns type of situation.

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Re:USB4 Specification by jdnenej on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @10:44PM (#20873519)

Appart from storage and video, there is just no need to go over USB 2.0. My brand new USB microphone uses USB 2 because there is no advantage at all to USB 3.0 for this device.

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Re:USB4 Specification by larkeith on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @01:30AM (#20874270)

I have a single USB 3.0 external hard drive. Everything else is USB 2.0. It's fantastic, I never have to worry about whether I have the right cord or if the device supports it, and in the rare case where I need to transfer a file large enough that sending it over the Internet would be a bottleneck, I just toss it on the external HDD.

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Re:USB4 Specification by dbtx on Friday September 06, 2019 @02:18AM (#20893490)

USB 4.0 doth not exist. The string '4.0' does not appear in the zipped PDF. There is only USB4™

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