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fzzzy 3y ago
That usb a to usb a cable is beyond cursed.
- mmh0000 3y ago
  Okay. That's pretty funny! I didn't even notice, I just picked the first 2.5" enclosure Amazon showed me.
- TeaDude 3y ago
  If only USB was peer to peer like FireWire. Then again, there'd probably be some trade-off to that.
  - jiehong 3y ago
    USB 4, being thunderbolt, actually allows this I think
    - belthesar 3y ago
      Thunderbolt is capable of doing this, but USB has had support for peer to peer and alternative client support for quite a while. USB OTG (On-The-Go), which allows a USB client device to also act as a host, has been around since the 2.0 spec. This is what lets USB devices like phones and tablets also connect to card readers, keyboards, and other USB devices. What Thunderbolt can do however that is quite magical, is operate as a point to point network interface. Driver support can be a bit dodgy, but it's totally feasible to build a 3 node compute cluster with point to point cluster node networking over Thunderbolt at 20 Gb/s.
- accrual 3y ago
  Before I understood the host/client nature of USB, I was convinced this magic non-existent USB-to-USB cable would let me connect any PC to any PC and copy between them like giant flash drives.
  - creativenolo 3y ago
    Mac’s _almost_ have a giant flash drives mode with target disk mode but via USB-C.
  - extraduder_ire 3y ago
    I've seen infomercial-tier products laid out like that back in the XP era. They use bespoke software, and probably some sort of IP over USB to work, but I've never needed to buy one. Looking it up just now indicates that such products still exist. https://plugable.com/products/usb3-tran https://plugable.com/products/usb3-tran The usb-c version of the same is even more confusing, either it's a normal type-c cable and the software is all you get, or it's a cursed bespoke type-c cable that will haunt you for years.

fzzzy 3y ago

That usb a to usb a cable is beyond cursed.

mmh0000 3y ago
Okay. That's pretty funny! I didn't even notice, I just picked the first 2.5" enclosure Amazon showed me.
TeaDude 3y ago
If only USB was peer to peer like FireWire. Then again, there'd probably be some trade-off to that.
- jiehong 3y ago
  USB 4, being thunderbolt, actually allows this I think
  - belthesar 3y ago
    Thunderbolt is capable of doing this, but USB has had support for peer to peer and alternative client support for quite a while. USB OTG (On-The-Go), which allows a USB client device to also act as a host, has been around since the 2.0 spec. This is what lets USB devices like phones and tablets also connect to card readers, keyboards, and other USB devices. What Thunderbolt can do however that is quite magical, is operate as a point to point network interface. Driver support can be a bit dodgy, but it's totally feasible to build a 3 node compute cluster with point to point cluster node networking over Thunderbolt at 20 Gb/s.
accrual 3y ago
Before I understood the host/client nature of USB, I was convinced this magic non-existent USB-to-USB cable would let me connect any PC to any PC and copy between them like giant flash drives.
- creativenolo 3y ago
  Mac’s _almost_ have a giant flash drives mode with target disk mode but via USB-C.
- extraduder_ire 3y ago
  I've seen infomercial-tier products laid out like that back in the XP era. They use bespoke software, and probably some sort of IP over USB to work, but I've never needed to buy one. Looking it up just now indicates that such products still exist. https://plugable.com/products/usb3-tran https://plugable.com/products/usb3-tran The usb-c version of the same is even more confusing, either it's a normal type-c cable and the software is all you get, or it's a cursed bespoke type-c cable that will haunt you for years.