*When looking at the bottom line the differences between USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 are remarkable. There was an average increase in performance of 290% on read speeds and an average increase in performance of 269% on write speeds using hard disk benchmarks. For file transfers showing the efficiency of USB 3.0 over USB 2.0 on a file transfer overall the USB 3.0 was 2 to 2.5 X faster than USB 2.0.//