Here’s some pretty good news for all gizmo freaks and speed loving people. After successfully ruling on for more than a decade, the USB 2.0 (Universal Serial Bus) version 2.0 is slowly giving its way to a much more promising USB 3.0. It was a way back in 1994 that Ajay Bhatt, while working for Intel had invented this new technology. Later that year seven different companies, namely Compaq, DEC, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC and Nortel stepped in together to develop this new technology.

Well, let us know what the USB is. It is a specification used to establish communication between devices and a host controller. This means that connecting new devices with the computer would be much less complicated. This brings us to a small battle. USB2 vs. USB3. A newer version obviously means that some new features and enhanced performance are at your beck and call.

USB 3.0 would perfectly justify this USB2 vs. USB3. The USB 3.0 is supposed to have a data transfer rate of 5 GB per second, which happens to be 10 times more than USB 2.0. With such immense speed, transferring of data would similar to just searching up things in Google. And that’s simple and fast. So in this battle of USB2 vs. USB3 the newer version scores a point and well deserves. There’s also an additional feature.

USB 3.0 is a full duplex which means you can upload and download simultaneously. That truly is a lovely piece of addition which would make working or as a matter of fact transferring data even faster. All these things said, there is still a long way to go for USB 3.0 and the simple reason being the non availability of hardware. So it will take it some time now to replace the ubiquitous USB 2.0. But then the waiting period is not a bad investment of time for such an excellent invention.