Rankie USB 3.0 Cable, Type A Cable, Black, 1.8 m, Computer

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USB stands for Universal Serial Bus, a common standard launched in 1996. Before this, there was a much wider variety of different connectors commonly used for linking PCs and compatible hardware. Examples you might be familiar with include multiple versions of serial ports, D-Sub, and parallel ports.

In short, almost every device that includes a PCB (printed circuit board) will likely have at least one type of USB port on it somewhere. PCB USB connectors and related components are cheap to buy, and easy to mount in a variety of ways including panel, surface, through-hole, and cable mount.Usually, pin 4 is left unconnected and it’s up to the user to select what should happen, assuming one of the equipment has OTG (On-The-Go, both host and device) capability, but you do occasionally come across a cable with pin 4 grounded at one end. USB 2.0 Micro-A plugs are very small and rectangular, resembling in many ways a shrunken USB Type A plug. USB Micro-A plugs are physically compatible with both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 Micro-AB receptacles.

A USB Powered-B connector is also specified in the USB 3.0 standard. This receptacle is physically compatible with USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 Standard-B plugs, and of course, USB 3.0 Standard-B and Powered-B plugs as well. Note: If your USB drive is showing as Removable Disk in Windows Explorer, you can only create one primary partition there. If it shows as Fixed Disk, you can create multiple primary partitions in accordance with its size. The body responsible for developing, maintaining, and updating the USB standard is called the USB Implementers Forum, or USB-IF. To date, there have been four main generations of USB released: USB 1.x (which had various subcategories), USB 2.0, USB 3.x (again, with subcategories), and USB 4. You will often see these referred to as USB gen 1, USB gen 3, and so on. The most popular and common USB port type today is probably the USB Type-A, also known as Standard-A. USB A connections will be very familiar to most PC or laptop users as a rectangular slot of about 14mm wide by 6mm high.

Plug the USB-C end of the adapter into a USB-C or Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) port on your Mac, and then connect your flash drive, camera, or other standard USB devices. You can also connect a Lightning to USB cable to sync and charge your iPhone, iPad, or iPod. USB Type A: Officially called USB Standard-A, these plugs and receptacles are rectangular and are the most commonly seen USB connectors. USB 1.1 Type A, USB 2.0 Type A and USB 3.0 Type A plugs and receptacles are physically compatible. Mini A/B - a versatile connector that can accept either mini A-type or mini B-type plugs and cables

Convert the destination disk...: Convert the partition style (MBR/GPT) of the target disk to make it the same as the source disk. The difference between male and female connectors - the two connector genders - is that one gets plugged in, while the other gets plugged into. USB Type B: Officially called USB Standard-B, these plugs and receptacles are square shaped with an extra notch on top, most noticeable on USB 3.0 Type B connectors. USB 1.1 Type B and USB 2.0 Type B plugs are physically compatible with USB 3.0 Type B receptacles but USB 3.0 Type B plugs are not compatible with USB 2.0 Type B or USB 1.1 Type B receptacles. One of the USB to USB cables is a USB type A male to type A male, which is supporting data transfer rate at up to 480Mbps. It is fully compatible with USB 1.0,1.1 and the cable length is 25Ft / 8M. It supports plug play connections for devices including external hard drives, modems, printers, scanners, VOIP devices other USB peripherals. The only use for a Male-A to Male-A is if you have a device that for some reason has an A instead of a B connector. With the 5-pin mini and micro connectors, pin 4 is used to indicate whether the thing it’s plugged into should behave as a host or device.Female USB connectors allow the male part of a USB cable or plug to be inserted into any compatible device. Once coupled in this way, the two devices can share both power and data over their common USB connection. Chris Hoffman is the former Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. Chris has personally written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times---and that's just here at How-To Geek.