What can I learn in one minute that will be useful for the rest of my life?
Prerna Singh
, Cloud Operations Engineer at VMware
Updated May 7, 2016
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While copying that favourite TV series of ours in our laptop, we barely
give a thought on
which USB port to use for the transfer. And why should we? All those rectangular ports are the same, right?
Well, no.
Get your laptop and closely look at the tiny design
engraved
next to the USB ports of your laptop. Did you find any difference?
In most laptops, you'd notice ports marked with one of these 2 designs:
This one above is the regular USB 2.0 port.
However, this one marked with "SS" is the
Super Speed USB
3.x
.
Super Speed USB
has new modes specially added for data transfer, due to which it is more than 10 times faster than the regular USB port provided you are using a USB 3.0 storage device.
In many laptops, however, you might not find the "SS" mark. Another way to know the SS port is to check the color inside the port. USB 3.x ports are generally colored blue inside, like in this image:
