USB 3.1 Real life speeds

[Adamsavage79]

I'm, just curious to how fast USB 3.1 USB C actually is. The max I have been able to find is 790 MB/s. This is good enough for a standard SSD. However, with PCIe 4.0 coming out and with PCIe 5.0 already being worked on. It seems USB technology is lagging behind very quickly.

 

[Digerati]

They are not meant to be competing interfaces.

 

[writhziden]

Having just moved 30GB worth of files in less than a minute to an external SSD across USB 3.1, I don't really see the need to make things faster for USB devices. External SSDs aren't meant to run an OS. It has always been inadvisable to run a true OS through USB since the connection isn't 100% stable. I run virtual machines off USB drives all the time, but I wouldn't want to run my primary system that way and risk losing important data due to corruption.