Do you actually connect at USB 3.0 speeds? Anyone tested this?
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I haven't tested, quantitatively faster than when I use the 2.0, the phone has the capacity for it, I have a 3.0 header on my board. I'm not upset with my purchase. Do I need it, no.
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The cable used to connect to this dock is a 3.0 micro usb. It will still transfer data at 3.0 speed as advertised.
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No. All the USB 3.0 share the same bus at 2.5Gbps. The ports controlled by a singe 4 ports Fresco Logic FL-1100 USB 3 controller.
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I only have usb 2.0 on the computer I upgraded and it worked fine. most (maybe all) devices that work with usb 3.0 will also work with 2.0.
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perfectly. are you looking for exact transfer speeds? I've used it on USB2.0 ports this entire time and it is fine.
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The connections are the same, I plug USB 2.0 into the 3.0 ports all the time. I assume they are compatible the other "direction."
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sorry, I haven`t tested that. I will have a USB3 portable hd soon. I'll check it out.
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I think that USB 3.0 cable doesn't have any influence on the charging speed. It's only related to the speed of data transfer. I've never heard about any complain on the charging speed. Thank you.
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I got about 300 MB/s, which is about half of the max speed but it was plenty fast. If you are connecting the USB 3 wire to an external USB 3 hard disk, and not doing hard disk intensive work on your main OS drive, I think you will get about the same rate of transfer speed while moving large files. Good luck!
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That's pretty much a given. If ur using usb 2.0 to connect you can't have speeds higher than the usb 2 limit.
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From my personal experience, I found using the adapter on USB 2.0 port actually give me better and stable performance over USB 3.0 port. At first, I plug it into my USB 3.0 port, I got very poor performance and very unstable connection but when I switch it to USB 2.0 port, it was working fine for me.
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Yes. One of the built in redundancies of USB 3.0 (as it was with 2.0) is that they are backwards compatible with the previous interface. The limitation being that it can only run at the top speed of said interface. But I have used this device on Thunderbolt, USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 plugs and all work great!
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USB 3.0 is backward compliant with the USB 2.0 spec. Therefore, if you connect the device to a usb 3.0 header you will get usb 3.0 speed, however, if connected to a usb 2.0 or 1.1 header, the device will operate at usb 2.0, 1.1 speeds. Simply put. Whatever header the device is connected to will be the highest speed data will transfer.
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Hi Thomas, you can connect the USB 3.0 devices but they will run at the USB 2.0 speed.
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Mine did increase the speed but not to true USB3 speed. Worth the investment, gives about 1.5 times speed increase.
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The box only mentions USB 2.0. I would guess a USB 3.0 should be ok, just won't get the 3.0's speed rate for data.
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Yes Usb 3.0 needs to have the power pin connected to take full advantage of USB 3.0 speeds.