In addition to USB version, buyers select USB cables based on connector type. The Engineering360 SpecSearch database provides information about these types of products. USB Type A connectors have a ...

USB connectors are used with Universal Serial Bus (USB) standard ports. USB is an external bus standard that supports data transfer rates of 12 Mbps in its version 1.1 and 480Mbps in its version 2.0.

and a very prolific reviewer of USB Type-C connectors on Amazon. The latest cable he tested destroyed his test equipment, including a $1500 Chromebook Pixel 2 (link dead, try Internet Archive).

USB cables come in all shapes and sizes, and the physical connector is not representative of its capabilities. Using the ...

Your productivity, nay livelihood, depends on all those 1s and 0s being reproduced with the crisp fidelity that’s only possible with a high-end USB cable. Anything less would be irresponsible.