Micro B to USB3 Cables Difference

[Guest]

Want to know what is the different between default external hard drive cable VS aftermarket cable like Ugreen? Beside durability.

 

(Micro B to USB3)

[Kaaverik]

I do not think there would be much of a difference aside from a small bump in slower and faster transfer speeds between brands. Since USB 3 is a standard the cables have to be built to handle the throughput of the data required by the standard. Every manufacturer can change the cable appearance in any way they want, but at the end of the day it just has to meet USB transfer speeds

 

Also, all hard drives will operate at a somewhat reduced speed due to seeking, reading and writing times, which for a sata disk just happens to be 600Mb/s, the same transfer speed as USB 3.

[tkitch]

Micro B is a USB 1 or 2 standard, you don't need a USB 3 microB cable.

 

USB C is the tiny plug standard for USB 3 devices.

[AndreiArgeanu]

24 minutes ago, tkitch said:

Micro B is a USB 1 or 2 standard, you don't need a USB 3 microB cable.

There are actually Micro B 3 cables. They're called micro B super speed, a micro B superspeed is physically compatible with a standard micro b cable at USB 2 speeds and with it's own micro usb super speed cable at USB 3 speeds. Considering he's talking about external hard drive the port is probably a Micro-B SuperSpeed which was and might still be common in external drives.

[tkitch]

6 minutes ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

There are actually Micro B 3 cables. They're called micro B super speed, a micro B superspeed is physically compatible with a standard micro b cable at USB 2 speeds and with it's own micro usb super speed cable at USB 3 speeds. Considering he's talking about external hard drive the port is probably a Micro-B SuperSpeed which was and might still be common in external drives.

ugh, I hate that plug.  >.< 

Yeah that one did exist, and it was terrible.    

[Guest]

13 hours ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

There are actually Micro B 3 cables. They're called micro B super speed, a micro B superspeed is physically compatible with a standard micro b cable at USB 2 speeds and with it's own micro usb super speed cable at USB 3 speeds. Considering he's talking about external hard drive the port is probably a Micro-B SuperSpeed which was and might still be common in external drives.

Yes, it's external hard drive. Like first image.

 

Okay then I'll stay with my default cable.