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Since when was USB2.0 "60MB/s"? It may have transmitted at 480MBit/s, but like all versions of the standard it uses a 10-bit encoding - thus a max of 48MB/s of actual data. And even with the very best drivers, you'll be lucky to see it hit 40 in the real world; I don't think I've seen a common or garden USB2 device peak at more than 28 and sustain more than 25. 20 is more common.

(Mind the "recorded" speeds are in binary "megas" rather than decimal "millions", btw; translated, 20 MByte/s would be 20.97 million bytes per second, and 28 MB/s would be 29.36 million - still a long way shy of 48, mind, and even further from 60)

Also, you've messed up on the comparitive units front - you've used bytes for USB2, but bits for USB3 / 3.1 and Thunderbolt. This needs to be corrected either to show:


 * USB 2.0: 480mbit/s
 * USB 3.0: 5.0gbit/s (5000 mbit/s)
 * USB 3.1 / Thunderbolt 1: 10gbit/s (10000 mbit/s)
 * Thunderbolt 2: 20gbit/s (20000 mbit/s)

OR

(And whatever the actual equivalent is for Thunderbolt as I don't know how efficient its line encoding is without going to look it up)
 * USB 2.0:  48 mbyte/s
 * USB 3.0: 500 mbyte/s
 * USB 3.1: 1000 mbyte/s (1.0 gbyte/s) ... or in other words, the "approx 20x faster than USB 2.0" as noted in the article proper.

Note that I have, in that last list, used decimal-million "mbytes", hence the not-quite-SI small m. Rewriting it to use binary Megabytes would yield:


 * USB 2.0: 45.8 MByte/s
 * USB 3.0: 476.8 MByte/s
 * USB 3.1: 953.7 MByte/s (again, not sure on the actual symbol rate of Thunderbolt...)

Please to be fixing quick smart, thank you very much.