14 DAY TRIAL // The only real problem with the Universal Serial Interface, if it can even be called that, is that the ports have a specific side that has to face up when being plugged in.
This can make it frustrating when you're trying to plug a flash drive into your PC in the dark. Also, trying to shove a port the wrong side up too many times can lead to the deterioration of both the PC port and the storage device / peripheral.
The latter issue doesn't crop up much, since PCs are usually upgraded/changed before the wear becomes bad enough to show.
Still, the Universal Serial Bus technology was due for an upgrade anyway, so the USB Implementers Forum thought: why not kill two problems at the same time?
Fast forward to the present day and voila! The USB type-C connector. Sure, it's not compatible with existing ports, but it won't be hard to include both types on motherboards in a few years. After all, USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports still live side by side.
USB Type-C connectors have a speed of 10 Gbps (USB 3.1 specification), making them twice as fast as USB 3.0. Not exactly the tenfold increase that happened when moving from USB 2.0 to 3.0, but it will do for now.
