How does USB compare to other connections used with PCs and workstations?
Here´s a quick list of the maximum transfer rates for various connections in megabits (Mb) and megabytes (MB) per second: serial port: 115kbits/s (.115Mbits/s) standard parallel port: 115KBs/s (.115MBs/s) USB: 12Mbits/s (1.5MBs/s) IDE: 3.3-16.7MBs/s UltraIDE: 33MBs/s SCSI: 5 ~ 160MBs/s (It depends on various standard.) IEEE-1394: 100-400Mbits/s (12.
Here´s a quick list of the maximum transfer rates for various connections in megabits (Mb) and megabytes (MB) per second: serial port: 115kbits/s (.115Mbits/s) standard parallel port: 115KBs/s (.115MBs/s) USB: 12Mbits/s (1.5MBs/s) IDE: 3.3-16.7MBs/s UltraIDE: 33MBs/s SCSI: 5 ~ 160MBs/s (It depends on various standard.) IEEE-1394: 100-400Mbits/s (12.5–50MBs/s)