USB 3.0 can speed up your setup or tank it depending on what you connect. Learn which devices benefit and which ones fall apart under interference.

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 ...

Your PC has a variety of USB ports meant for different devices. Most modern computers can feature USB ports of 2–5 different ...

Teal: Just like blue, but denoted as USB 3.1, supporting faster transfer speeds of up to 10 Gbps. Red: These are the newest and fastest devices available, categorized as USB 3.1 Generation 2 and USB 3 ...

New SuperSpeed USB 3.0 drives include models from (clockwise from left) Buffalo, Iomega, Seagate, and Western Digital. ALL PHOTOGRAPHS: ROBERT CARDIN When you’re in front of your PC, waiting for ...

Have you noticed how none of your electronics have any ports anymore? Your phone, tablet, and laptop are all equipped with the same USB-C ports, and there are only ever two or three of them. It has ...

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Slow USB transfer speeds can be a bit frustrating. The worst part about this problem is that USB 3.0 was made to increase data transfer speed, as its speed is 5 Gbits/s. In this article, we are going ...