USB 3 to connect computers?

[HavocXphere]

USB 3 supports a raw throughput of 500 MByte/s (source wiki) and USB can in principle be used to connect computers (like this http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/248).

Does this mean that USB will allow for networking at much higher speeds than anything else out there? (Ignoring the limitations on cable length and fibre optics)

Or am I missing something?

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[Johnsie]

Probably depends on the cost of the cables. Might be suitable for home networking, but the costs of recabling medium/large businesses would probably be too expensive to make it worthwhile. Then there is also the cost of replacing switches, routers etc.

[3rdalbum]

I'm sure that someone will come out with a device that lets you use USB 3 to connect two computers together.

Can an ordinary desktop PC's hard disk fill a 1000 Base-T Ethernet pipe? Gigabit Ethernet surely would come standard on any PC that comes with USB 3.

[SunnyRabbiera]

Well whatever the case if you are worried about USB3 compatibility in linux apparently USB3 support was availible for linux first!
I dont think even win7 will have it right away

[lisati]

I'm sure that someone will come out with a device that lets you use USB 3 to connect two computers together.

It wouldn't surprise me: similar has been done before with older USB standards. I have such a device gathering dust somewhere (forget which version USB) which, with suitable drivers, can be used as a basic network.

[HavocXphere]

Can an ordinary desktop PC's hard disk fill a 1000 Base-T Ethernet pipe?
Probably not. Maybe SSDs can though.

Fastest speed I recall seeing is 45 mb/s which is +- what the disks could do in the PCs.