you know what really overcooks my pasta when groups of seemingly
very smart people in positions of power in the tech world build this really cool
technology then when it's finally time to bring it
to market come up with naming schemes for it that make no sense the worst and
yes that's right i am looking at you usb
forum and for you guys specifically what
really confuses me is that you went over to the dark side after a long history of
making things actually pretty simple and straightforward so we
started out with usb 1 then we got 1.1
which was a minor revision to 1. cool then we got usb 2.0 which was much
faster then we got usb 3.0 which was
much faster again so then it wasn't until around 2013 that
things started getting a little weird you see the original usb 3.0 spec had a
max theoretical speed of 5 gigabits per second so you would think that the next
revision which doubled that speed to 10 gigabit would be usb
4.0 right wrong
instead what we got was usb 3.1 but
honestly i was even okay with that i mean one is clearly a larger number than
zero and i guess it wasn't a fundamental redesign of the spec or anything
no no no the issue is that at the same
time they also renamed the original usb
3.0 spec as usb 3.1 gen 1 then called
the new 10 gigabit spec usb 3.1 gen 2.
i mean how do you just rename something after
the fact do you are you shampoo
do you think that makes it seem new and cool now now improved but it's the old
one but you're also releasing a new one that is improved why
and in fairness yeah it's been done before but still
then making matters worse we've just
gotten another doubling in speed to 20
gigabits per second why am i mad i mean extra speed's a good thing right
the reason is that the usb forum has given us an even worse nonsensical
naming twist so bear with me here the original usb
3.0 5 gigabit spec is now usb 3.2 gen 1
with the 10 gigabit version becoming usb
3.2 gen 2 which
okay so by this moon logic then the 20 gigabit variation would be usb 3.2 gen 3
right no because the usb 3.2 spec just involves
adding more lanes to the connection so
the 20 gigabit version is usb 3.2 gen2
by two with the buy two indicating that there
are two data lanes instead of just one
the usb so the usb forum whose marketing
department clearly isn't much better at naming things than the engineers has
then gone and recommended the names super speed
super speed usb 10 gigabit per second
and super speed usb 20 gigabit per second to differentiate the products on
store shelves
now to be fair to the usb forum the method behind their madness seems to
be to have the naming scheme reflect how many lanes can be used in each revision
and i do get that when they transitioned from usb 2.0 to 3.0 part of the
rationale for a big number change was
that there were physical differences with the connectors which is not the
case for the various usb 3 revisions
the problem though is that gen is
generation it means time
you can't just rename a generation a
later generation that's not how it works my my great grandpa doesn't become my
dad later furthermore usb 3.0 was backwards
compatible with usb 2.0 connectors anyway and more importantly than all of
this is that consumers don't care about
things like the configuration of data lanes and
exactly how the pins and the traces on their motherboard are laid out they just
want to know if if the gadget they're buying is going to work with their gear
and how fast it's going to be i mean pci express has this sort of thing figured
out now to be clear there are some very complicated sub-elements of the PCIe
specification like like hot plug support that are optional on certain revisions
and then required on others etc etc etc but from a consumer standpoint when
there's a speed boost the version number goes up by one and that's
basically it and even though the various revisions of pci express are all
backwards and forwards compatible with each other the folks in charge haven't
felt the need to mess around with silly rebranding to make the point that it all
works together it's all called pci express it's all called usb
tada but alas this is the system we have so
if you're going to be in the market for a usb gadget anytime soon i would
recommend paying really close attention to this chart that we created for your
convenience or better yet print it out and keep a copy in your wallet like i do
so that you too can be the life of the party whenever the subject changes to
something lame like
this all right so that's it if you'll excuse
me now i need to go have a word with Intel about how they decide on names for
their processors as well be right back
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