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jedbrookeyesterday at 10:12 PM1 replyview on HN

looks like it only has the physical connections for USB 2. Fun fact about usb 3, it’s really a completely separate physical standard from usb 2, just designed in such a way that a single port can have BOTH usb 2.0 and 3.0 connectors in it at the same time. In theory this would allow for devices to use the full bandwidth of 3.0 + the full bandwidth of 2.0, but as far as I know no device does that.


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15155yesterday at 11:27 PM

> In theory this would allow for devices to use the full bandwidth of 3.0 + the full bandwidth of 2.0, but as far as I know no device does that.

Not as a single device (no XHCI controllers allow this), but yes if you presented two devices to the OS (with some XHCI controllers.)