welcome to Techquickie I'm Linus and on today's episode of 1 minute or less
we're going to tell you everything you need to know about USB 3 the main
advantage of USB 3 is speed it is up to 10 times faster than the last generation
USB 2 and while it's only half as fast
as some other technology such as Thunderbolt it is universally compatible
it's right in the name so it's backwards compatible with USB 2 and you don't need
a special computer to take advantage of it if you're not sure if your device
supports USB 3 you can check the manufacturer specifications or another
easy way to tell is check the inside of the connector the key that keeps you
from putting it in the wrong way is usually blue on usb3 devices now most
usb3 devices these days are storage devices because that's where you can
take advantage of that extra performance however there are other devices that are
available such as things like external video capture devices that USB 2 is not
fast enough for but usb3 is I often get
asked where to plug a USB device into the simple answer is because of that
back compatibility it doesn't matter all you do is plug the USB drive into the
USB port which is usually easy to recognize because it has a blue
colorcoded key on it or if that's not present you can look inside the
connector to see if there's additional pins your computer will also usually
prompt you if you install a usb3 device into a USB 2 Port saying hey you've got
usb3 ports if you want to take advantage of that extra speed switch it over to
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