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USB 30 is the third major version of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) standard for interfacing computers and electronic devices Among other improvements, USB 30 adds the new transfer rate referred to as SuperSpeed USB (SS) that can transfer data at up to 5 Gbit/s (625 MB/s), which is about 10 times faster than the Hi-Speed (maximum for USB 20 standard) It is recommended that manufacturers distinguish USB 30 connectors from their USB 20 counterparts by using blue color for the Standard-A receptacles and plugs, and by the initials SSUSB 31, released in July 2013, is the successor standard that replaces the USB 3
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