



USB 3.0 debuted in that year, and it could transfer data ten times faster than USB 2.0, at speeds up to 5 Gbps. By 2008 a speed of 480 Mbps wasn’t high speed at all, and a new standard was created to handle the ever-increasing need for faster data transfer. With technology advancing at a rapid rate, “hi-speed” was really just a relative term. USB 3.0 was also known as SuperSpeed, to differentiate it from the optimistically-named “hi-speed.”
