Last week, we showed you how to build your own custom PC, from picking the parts, to putting it together and installing your OS. Here's the complete guide, along with a printable PDF version that you can use as a reference. More »

Tutti ne parlano, tutti lo vogliono, ma potrebbe nascere già vecchio. Stiamo parlando dell’USB 3.0, il nuovo standard di comunicazione seriale che con i suoi 4.8 Gbit di dati trasferiti ogni secondo dovrebbe presto sostituire l’USB 2.0 (capace di trasferire solo 60 MBps) e prendere piede a livello mondiale, coadiuvato dal supporto alla tecnologia incluso in Windows 7 SP1.

Il motivo di questa nostra affermazione? Light Peak, un nuovo tipo di cavo – molto sottile, tra l’altro – che Intel ha presentato nel corso dell’Intel Developers Forum di Pechino e che consente di trasferire dati tramite collegamento ottico (anziché elettrico) all’incredibile velocità di 10 Gbps: il doppio di USB 3.0, tanto per intenderci.

A dimostrazione dell’incredibile potenza di questo nuovo sistema di comunicazione, è stata effettuata una prova pubblica in cui, con un solo cavo attaccato ad una presa USB 3.0 modificata, un notebook è riuscito a trasmettere contemporaneamente un Blu-ray , un video HD da una fotocamera ed una copia del suo desktop su un display secondario. Il tutto, senza alcun tipo di problema.
(...)Continua a leggere Intel presenta Light Peak: USB 3.0 già vecchio!, su Geekissimo

© naqern per Geekissimo, 2010. |
Permalink |
6 commenti |
Aggiungi su del.icio.us

Hai trovato interessante questo articolo? Leggi altri articoli correlati nelle categorie Geek, hardware.

Post tags: intel, light peak, usb 3.0

More and more lightweight laptops and netbooks are shipping sans optical drives. Don't buy an external drive for for $50+ for those few times you need it, turn an old USB HDD enclosure and DVD drive into an external drive.
It seems like not having a CD/DVD drive would put you at a disadvantage but optical media just isn't that frequently used anymore in the age of high speed downloads—I've never needed an optical drive on my netbook and I've only used the optical drive on my desktop a few times in the last year. Still in those rare instances where you really need an optical drive it's frustrating to be without one. Don't run out and buy a $50+ external drive you're only going to use once in a blue moon if you've got—as most geeks do—a pile of old parts.

Alec from TeamUbermodder, a site dedicated to hardware modding, found himself in a similar situation where he wanted a cheap external burner:

My current Dell Inspiron 530 came with a single DVD drive and no IDE ports. On a limited budget and needing to burn media on-the-fly, I wanted to figure out a way to use my older IDE Ben-q DVDRW drive. Using an old USB hdd drive enclosure, I'll show you how.

The beauty of this hack, simplicity aside, is that unless you're militant about cleaning out old hardware—and I don't know many computer enthusiasts who are—you've likely got enough parts to build more than one of these franken-drives on hand. If you find yourself using the DVD drive more frequently you can always shop around online for an inexpensive enclosure to make the connection more permanent.

Have a hack for squeezing life out of old hardware or combining hardware in handy ways? Let's hear about it in the comments.

Modify a USB HDD Enclosure to Work with a DVD Drive [via Hack a Day]