Fix USB 3.0 'This device can perform faster' System Tray message!

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If you use a USB 2.0 cable to connect a USB 3.0 device, the cable will only have the old USB 2.0 pins and so you will only get USB 2.0 speeds even though you have connected it to a USB 3.0 port.

USB 3.0 has an extra set of pins (9 in total)!

If you have directly connected your USB 3.0 device to a USB 3.0 port, check that you have the latest USB 3.0 driver installed and that the device is fully inserted into the port.

If you have a USB 3.0 Flash drive or Hard drive, you can test the speed using RMPrepUSB Test Speed. Write speeds of USB 3.0 Flash drives may not be much faster on a USB 3.0 port, but read speeds are usually much faster when using a USB 3.0 port.

Even if you only have USB 2.0 ports on your computer, USB 3.0 devices tend to give better performance that USB 2.0 devices, so if buying a new USB drive, I would recommend buying a USB 3.0 version as they are generally about twice as fast as USB 2.0 devices. There is not a drastic increase in speed because the Flash memory devices and the integral USB controller inside the drive itself are the bottleneck and not the USB 3.0 data transfer protocol!

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