USB 3.0 offers approximately 10:1 performance improvement over USB 2.0, but realizing the full potential of that gain for mass storage devices poses additional challenges. The mainstay of mass storage standards for USB 2.0 and 1.1 has been the Bulk Only Transport (BOT) device class specification for USB, and it has served the personal computer industry well with its simplicity and modest efficiency...
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