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welcome to tech quickie I'm Linus and on today's episode of one minute or less we're going to tell you everything you need to know about USB 3 the main advantage of USB 3 is speed it is up to 10 times faster than the last generation USB 2 and while it's only half as fast as some other technologies such as fundable it is universally compatible it's right in the name so it's backwards compatible with USB 2 and you don't need a special computer to take advantage of it if you're not sure if your device supports USB 3 you can check the manufacturer specifications or another easy way to tell is check the inside of the connector the key that keeps you from putting it in the wrong way is usually blue on USB 3 devices now most USB 3 devices these days are storage devices because that's where you can take advantage of that extra performance however there are other devices that are available such as things like external video capture devices that USB 2 is not fast enough for but USB 3 is I often get asked where to plug a USB device into the simple answer is because of that backwards compatibility it doesn't matter all you do is plug the USB Drive into the USB port which is usually easy to recognize because it has a blue color coded key on it or if that's not present you can look inside the connector to see if there's additional pins your computer will also usually prompt you if you install a USB 3 device into a USB 2 port saying hey you've got USB 3 ports if you want to take advantage of that extra speed switch it over to that thanks for checking out this episode of one minute or less we'd love for you to share these videos with anyone you can think of who would benefit from the information including embedding it in your website don't forget to subscribe to tech quickie for more videos like this and please like the video by clicking the little button below it helps us out a lot last but not least you can use the forum link in the video description to submit any ideas that you have for upcoming one minute or less episodes