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All iPads iPad needs USB 3.0

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I've upgraded most of my external HDDs and USB sticks to USB 3.0 and now transferring movies and stuff to my iPad is quite annoying. Takes forever to transfer a couple gigs of movies I downloaded off the internet.

Hopefully, they finally put in USB 3.0 so the people with newer Macs can take advantage of faster write speeds.
 
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AutoUnion39 said:
I've upgraded most of my external HDDs and USB sticks to USB 3.0 and now transferring movies and stuff to my iPad is quite annoying. Takes forever to transfer a couple gigs of movies I downloaded off the internet.

Hopefully, they finally put in USB 3.0 so the people with newer Macs can take advantage of faster write speeds.
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Mobile devices use flash that I'm not even sure saturates USB2 at this point.
 
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burgundyyears said:
Mobile devices use flash that I'm not even sure saturates USB2 at this point.
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I'm sure the flash chips inside these mobile devices can take advantage of USB3.0, if they put in higher speed storage chips.

I remember my old Nokia N95. Literally took an hour to transfer 1gb file to its internal memory.
 
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Fruit Cake

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If they put high speed memory it would need to be low density SLC chips, the MLC chips used in cheaper components doesn't go that fast. The cheapo MicroSD Sandisk chip I got for my droid only does 10meg/sec write speed. Given apple are Pennypinching tightasses, I'd say we're stuck at these speeds for a little while.
 
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AutoUnion39 said:
I'm sure the flash chips inside these mobile devices can take advantage of USB3.0, if they put in higher speed storage chips.

I remember my old Nokia N95. Literally took an hour to transfer 1gb file to its internal memory.
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The NAND flash chips in the iPhone 5 can only do a maximum write speed of 21 mega bytes per second. That's still well within the range of USB 2.
 
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