USB 2.0 or 3.0

dubaty · Apr 23, 2013

Does anyone know if it makes any difference if I use a 2.0 USB stick vs a 3.0 stick? It looks like the sticks using the 3.0 specification have faster read times, but that may not make any difference for playing music in the car.

GlennAlanBerry · Apr 23, 2013

It won't really matter for playing music either way. I seriously doubt that the USB ports in the car are USB 3.0 ports. Having a USB 3.0 thumb drive plugged into a USB 3.0 port on a newer computer will let you read and write to the drive at higher sequential bandwidth speeds (in the 80-100MB/sec range), but even USB 2.0 has more than enough bandwidth to stream audio files with not problem.

dubaty · Apr 23, 2013

Thanks! I thought spending the money on a 3.0 drive might be overkill. Id rather spend the money on capacity.

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