Foryour keyboard and mouse, it’s personal preference but the motherboard USB ports are probably better so you can keep the more easily accessible front I/O USB ports open for whatever. I like to use any of my usb 2.0 ports on my motherboard for my keyboard and mouse, since they don’t need all that sweet bandwidth available on blue usb
a"3.0 root hub" is present for USB3. That said, I concur that the best way to determine if your hardware is USB3 is by looking at the ports themselves; USB3 is usually color-coded and is blue, and has some extra conductors (which are however a bit difficult to see). If a USB 3.0 port is not blue, you will most likely see the phrase "SS" for
USB3.0 ports (blue) 4. Headphone connector . 5. Dual-state power button. 6. Hard drive activity light. 7. Slim optical drive (optional) 8. USB 2.0 ports (black) 4. DisplayPort monitor connectors. 5. VGA monitor connector. 6. USB 3.0 ports (blue) 7. Line-Out connector for powered audio devices (green) 8.
NOTE It is not a requirement to have blue plastic inserts (Figure 1) to distinguish USB 3.0 ports.With new systems the USB 3.0 ports may have standard black plastic inserts but will still have the USB 3.0 logo (Figure 2) located beside the port.When the system has a mixture of USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 it is more likely that the USB 3.0 will be called out withHowever a blue port is usually 5 Gbps, which means that it's SuperSpeed USB (aka USB 3.2 Gen 1, USB 3.1 Gen 1 or USB 3.0). Some manufacturers now use red USB ports to include SuperSpeed 10 Gbps
First check the physical ports on your computer - USB 3.0 ports are sometimes (but not always) blue in color so if any of your USB ports are blue then your computer is equipped with USB 3.0. You can also check the logo above the port for the USB 3.0 SuperSpeed logo (pictured below). The USB 3.0 SuperSpeed logo.
Clickthe Apple icon located in the top left-hand-corner of the screen. About This Mac. Then select ‘ System Report ‘. will open up. Select USB located under Hardware in the Contents column on the left side of the window. If you have USB 3.0 ports, you’ll see a USB 3.0 selection. This example Mac only has USB 2 ports.
USB1.0 was white.. 2.0 was black, 3.0 was blue and 3.1 was red I think the problem is over when every device use USB-C but until that time i think there should be a unified identifier for the different versions. There is