USB 2.0 vs USB 3.0 devices

[WyalusingTim]

Recently the difference between USB 3.0 ports and USB 2.0 ports came up. My understanding besides the amount of memory a flash drive or memory stick has the speed that it can download long programs is helpful. Supposedly, a USB 3.0 memory stick attached to a USB 3.0 Port (have the blue strip inside or special identifier) can download data/programs from the internet 10x faster. But if you open a program on your computer, outside the Windows 10 operating system for example) {note doing this to keep the program off your hard drive] once it is open does it matter whether it was opened from a 2.0 or 3.0 device once it is running? If so can someone provide me some examples? I downloaded a program on a USB 2.0 device and PC with USB 2.0 ports then booted it up and it appears to work just fine in spite of the clamor to use a USB 3.0 device. It seems to me if you have enough memory, 8 GB, 16 GB, or 32 GB, but not too much memory is the more essential thing. If you don’t mind waiting for a program to take an extra ten minutes to download onto the device there really isn’t an issue once you run the program. Kind of like zipping and unzipping large files. Please provide thoughtful feedback and your personal experiences. Take care, Tim

[Bruce]

g’day Tim and welcome to the forums.

as far as I’ve ever known, the only difference between USB2 and USB3 is the transfer rates - that is the speed of reads and writes to the USB stick?
and yes - there is a ten fold increase.

once the program is read into memory, or whatever it needs, if the is an I/O request that needs to access data from the USB drive, than that request will transfer said data ten times faster. that’s all.

[veeg]

Any updates?

[Bruce]

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