


USB 3.1 received yet another upgrade with double the speed. With the release of USB 3.1, USB changed the name of 3.0 to USB 3.1 gen 1. It was upgraded to USB 3.1, increasing the speed to 10 Gbps. USB 3.0 received several upgrades that have quite a confusing name. It immediately superseded USB 2.0 due to its blazing speed of 5 Gbps. USB 3.0 is the third generation USB version released in 2008 as a SuperSpeed USB. It is the only version in the USB 2 series and did not receive any upgrades. Upgraded from the USB 1, the 2.0 version of the USB helped in providing a universal connection between peripherals and hosts with its speed of 480 Mbps.Īlmost every computer has a USB 2.0 port, peripherals such as keyboard and mouse, and flash drives utilize the USB 2.0. USB 2.0 is the second generation of a Universal Serial Bus standard released in 2000 with the name Hi-Speed.
