I'm looking forward to widespread USB 3.0 adoption more than any other technology in 2010. I really hope they will release cheap PCI or PCI-E USB 3.0 expansion cards for people who don't intend to upgrade their whole system just for USB 3.0.
For me USB 3.0 will mean incredibly faster system backups on usb thumb drives, music library transfer/creation on MP3 player and high res photo transfer from my camera (or does this depend on the write speed of the media i'm transferring from?) This means alot more to me than any general performance gain I'd see from upgrading to LGA 1156/1366, 5000/300 series graphics cards or 6gb ddr3. In fact the only upgrade I'd rate of a similar importance would be SSD/RAM drive, neither of which I'd currently upgrade to. What does USB 3.0 mean for the rest of you?
For me USB 3.0 will mean incredibly faster system backups on usb thumb drives, music library transfer/creation on MP3 player and high res photo transfer from my camera (or does this depend on the write speed of the media i'm transferring from?) This means alot more to me than any general performance gain I'd see from upgrading to LGA 1156/1366, 5000/300 series graphics cards or 6gb ddr3. In fact the only upgrade I'd rate of a similar importance would be SSD/RAM drive, neither of which I'd currently upgrade to. What does USB 3.0 mean for the rest of you?