An SS USB port, short for SuperSpeed, refers to USB 3.0 or newer, used for faster data transfer and charging compared to ...

USB 5 Gbps (USB 3.0, USB 3.1 Gen 1, USB 3.2 Gen 1) The third generation of the USB protocol, USB 3.0, launched in November 2008 and brought with it a huge bump in theoretical maximum speeds to 5 ...

A USB 3.0 connection requires five conductors, and the connectors are blue in color. Backward compatibility is typically provided by including four additional conductors, as shown in the image here.

See, most modern computers have at least one USB 3.0 port. You can plug an older, USB 2.0 drive into one, but you won’t get the faster throughput afforded by the newer technology.

This story has been updated. When Don Stovicek set out to buy a fast USB 3.0 flash drive, he discovered that the advertised speeds fell well below even USB 2.0’s official capabilities. The now ...

Figure 1. USB 3.0 Physical Layer In PCI Express, the 100-MHz reference clock (RefClk) is distributed from the host to the device so spread-spectrum clocking (SSC) of 0.5% of the signaling rate ...

DisplayLink technology offers a way to add more displays for M1 Macs by effectively encapsulating video over USB 3. This works with M1 Macs as well as Intel Macs that lack all the output ports you ...