How fast is USB?
- USB 1.0 (low speed) supports a speed of 1.5 Mbit/s (183 KB/s) and is used for devices such as keyboards, mice, and joysticks.
- USB 1.1 (full speed) supports speeds of 12 Mbit/s (1.5 MB/s) and was the fastest rate before the release of USB 2.0.
- USB 2.0 ( high speed) supports a transfer rate of 480 Mbit/s (57 MB/s) and is available on the majority of computers manufactured after 2003.
- USB 3.0 ( super speed) supports a transfer rate of 5Gbps (625 MB/s) and was released in 2010.
- USB 3.1 ( super speed) supports a transfer rate of 10Gbps (1250 MB/s) and is the latest USB standard and was released in 2013.