Most people nowadays don’t really think about how fast their USB drives are simply because the vast majority of USB ports out there today are about the same speed and the same mostly goes for the USB drives as well. With the advent of USB 3.0 there has been an explosion of much faster USB drives that start to creep into external hard drive or even solid state drive territory. As such, these drives become much easier to use and at certain capacities may usurp having an external drive for large data transfers.