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If your drive enclosures are USB A you’re leaving massive throughout on the table and wasting your time for what would be a $30 part on Amazon. The new “spare

by zaroth 8y ago

If your drive enclosures are USB A you’re leaving massive throughout on the table and wasting your time for what would be a $30 part on Amazon. The new “spare charger” is a 10kmAh battery pack which will have USB-C and some double as a way to jump start your car (assuming you still drive ICE). It’s also a worthwhile upgrade and much more useful than something that has you hunting for outlets at the airport, or god forbid, under your seat on a plane! But a C D Reader? What is that? Is that like the radio that truckers used to use to talk to each other in the road?

drewmol 8y ago
>But a C D Reader? What is that? Is that like the radio that truckers used to use to talk to each other in the road? Yes, like that in terms of: expect decades for complete migration as all benificial use cases for them have not yet been superceeded by technology sucessors.
wlesieutre 8y ago
Is a USB-C enclosure actually faster than USB 3.1 was with the old conenctors? As far as I know you can use all the same devices and just swap out the cable on a computer that wants a USB-C connector. On the device end (for hard drives and hubs) you'd generally have a type-B connector (don't think I've ever seen one with USB-A, but I haven't had that many external drives). Type-B got got a bulkier version for superspeed, it looks silly but for something that lives at your desk, who cares? https://www.google.com/search?q=usb+3+type+b&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=usb+3+type+b&tbm=isch If you get a new computer with USB-C, you can replace a single cable with USB-C to USB-B to keep using the same hub and the same USB-A devices plugged into it at the same speed as before: https://www.amazon.com/TNP-USB-C-USB-B-Cable-Black/dp/B011BGMDGU https://www.amazon.com/TNP-USB-C-USB-B-Cable-Black/dp/B011BG...
- dragonwriter 8y ago
  > Is a USB-C enclosure actually faster than USB 3.1 was with the old conenctors? As I understand it, USB-C-to-USB-C (with USB 3.2) is the only connector combination supporting Gen 2×2, 20Gb/s mode (since it leverages the pins included to support flipping the connector; it's also the only combination to support Gen 1×2, but that's the same speed as Gen 2×1, so it's unclear why you'd do that.) USB A (w/USB 3.1+) can support Gen 2×1 (SuperSpeed+) at 10Gb/s. USB B (w/USB 3.0+), AFAIK, only supports Gen 1 (SuperSpeed) (5Gb/s).
  - wlesieutre 8y ago
    Ah you're right. First I've heard of USB 3.2, but here's news from 2017: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11667/usb32-update https://www.anandtech.com/show/11667/usb32-update I have a USB-C drive enclosure, but looking at the specs it's only USB 3.1. Newegg doesn't even have 3.2 as an option when searching by external interface in their hard drive enclosures section. The day when you're actually losing anything by not having USB-C devices seems a ways off still.

by zaroth 8y ago

drewmol 8y ago

>But a C D Reader? What is that? Is that like the radio that truckers used to use to talk to each other in the road? Yes, like that in terms of: expect decades for complete migration as all benificial use cases for them have not yet been superceeded by technology sucessors.

wlesieutre 8y ago

Is a USB-C enclosure actually faster than USB 3.1 was with the old conenctors? As far as I know you can use all the same devices and just swap out the cable on a computer that wants a USB-C connector. On the device end (for hard drives and hubs) you'd generally have a type-B connector (don't think I've ever seen one with USB-A, but I haven't had that many external drives). Type-B got got a bulkier version for superspeed, it looks silly but for something that lives at your desk, who cares? https://www.google.com/search?q=usb+3+type+b&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=usb+3+type+b&tbm=isch If you get a new computer with USB-C, you can replace a single cable with USB-C to USB-B to keep using the same hub and the same USB-A devices plugged into it at the same speed as before: https://www.amazon.com/TNP-USB-C-USB-B-Cable-Black/dp/B011BGMDGU https://www.amazon.com/TNP-USB-C-USB-B-Cable-Black/dp/B011BG...

dragonwriter 8y ago
> Is a USB-C enclosure actually faster than USB 3.1 was with the old conenctors? As I understand it, USB-C-to-USB-C (with USB 3.2) is the only connector combination supporting Gen 2×2, 20Gb/s mode (since it leverages the pins included to support flipping the connector; it's also the only combination to support Gen 1×2, but that's the same speed as Gen 2×1, so it's unclear why you'd do that.) USB A (w/USB 3.1+) can support Gen 2×1 (SuperSpeed+) at 10Gb/s. USB B (w/USB 3.0+), AFAIK, only supports Gen 1 (SuperSpeed) (5Gb/s).
- wlesieutre 8y ago
  Ah you're right. First I've heard of USB 3.2, but here's news from 2017: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11667/usb32-update https://www.anandtech.com/show/11667/usb32-update I have a USB-C drive enclosure, but looking at the specs it's only USB 3.1. Newegg doesn't even have 3.2 as an option when searching by external interface in their hard drive enclosures section. The day when you're actually losing anything by not having USB-C devices seems a ways off still.