http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15616178?nclick_check=1

Ohh 5yrs from now. We have USB 3.0 now, maybe the next gen interface will be these, eliminating the stupid USB 2.0 bottleneck I have now when backing up 25GB movie files.

The Santa Clara chipmaker said the fingernail-size research prototype already can move 100 hours of digital music or 45 million tweets in a second from one device to another. And the company expects to make one eventually that can transmit a laptop's hard drive in one second and the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress in less than two minutes.

Moreover, because the chips are made of the same material the company uses for its brainy microprocessors, Intel envisions mass producing these "silicon photonic links" at low cost, making them practical for use in everything from personal computers to smartphones.

This stuff is all well and good but until we can come up with storage media than can read/write at these speeds everyone will just be complaining about another bottleneck. Even the fastest solid state/raid setup is significantly slower than this, and such setups are far out of the reach of the average user ($$$)