The Smartest IT Guy Ever – 7
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USB 3.0 and Bay Area computer consultants X2 Technologis make your network run faster.
In chatting with Steve Mays, The Smartest IT Guy Ever, he was fired up about USB 3.0!
USB 3.0 is coming with 50% more power to provide for more devices and 10x the performance. What does this mean to you dear reader? It means that even existing devices like hard drives, not to mention newer devices like SSDs, will go faster and devices that charge with USB will charge faster and possibly not need external power bricks.
Real world usage of USB 2.0 nets something less than 20MB/sec on external hard drives, if you factor in the theoretical 10x performance gain that would be something like 200MB/sec which is right up there with RAID arrays and fast SSDs. (There are claims that the USB 3.0 protocol could go all the way up to an unbelievable 25 Gbps!!)
It’s a nice and frankly overdue by 3-4 years step.
The whole ecosystem of devices are coming out now: motherboards with USB 3.0 ports, laptops, PCIe cards, Express Card slots, adapters, hard drives, everything! Linux will have USB 3.0 support FAST and Microsoft/Apple will be bringing it on with their newer OS versions (Windows 7 and OSX 10.6) via patches.
Oh and did I mention that 3.0 ports are backwards compatible with 2.0 devices?
X2 Technologies receives IMDB credit for IT support on Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.
The premier Bay Area IT Systems Integrators are proud of our new IMDB credits for IT Support on Tim Burton’s rendition of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland.”
The cast include, Mia Wasikowaska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Stephen Fry, Christopher Lee, Michael Sheen, Alan Rickman, Matt Lucas, Timothy Spall and Barbara Windsor.
It is currently in post-production and set to be released March 5, 2010.
X2 Technologies is Qube! certified and has extensive experience with Maya, Mays Extensible Language Plugins (MEL), render farms and essentially any and all hardware and software components required to produce stunning animation, CG, FX results under budget and ahead of schedule.
Please give us a call if you have an FX IT issue you’d like to discuss.
Happy New Year.
