In the beginning, a coalition of the finest tech minds brought us the plug-and-play phenomenon that was USB. Then, a coalition of slightly brainier bods upped its game to bring us the miracle that was ...

We widely use speed test software to check our internet connection speed, using tools like speed test, speakeasy, etc. When it comes to LAN, hard drive or USB drive speed tests, there is no better ...

I’ve just picked up one of those fancy USB 3 drives to use with my Macbook Air as a sort of secondary backup when I travel, as it was so inexpensive for a 120 Gb drive. I wanted to know how much ...

What Are Disk Speed Test Apps? Disk speed test apps help measure the overall speed and performance of a hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD) (internal or external) connected to a computer system.

My first computer was a Commodore 64 and it came with a hard drive with less than 20MB of storage - somewhere around that mark if my memory serves correctly. Back in the day, that was plenty of space ...

With revision 3.x, USB design and test has moved from the purely digital to requiring a combination of digital and RF design techniques. As well as the connector and cable physical design, designers ...

The Universal Serial Bus (USB), introduced to computers in 1995, now appears in all PCs and in many peripherals. Yet, the bus's 12-Mbit/s speed has limited its usefulness for products such as video ...

New SuperSpeed USB 3.0 drives include models from (clockwise from left) Buffalo, Iomega, Seagate, and Western Digital. ALL PHOTOGRAPHS: ROBERT CARDIN When you’re in front of your PC, waiting for ...

When it comes to compliance test, USB 3.0 has more in common with PCI Express and Serial ATA than with USB 2.0. Tektronix's Chris Loberg takes you through what you'll need to know to gain USB 3.0 ...

Learn about the similarities and differences of USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 and how they impact system performance. The Universal Serial Bus (USB) has become the de facto low-cost PC interface standard for ...