On 2/26/2013 7:34 PM, nestork wrote:
I just bought a solid state external hard drive, but the USB cable that
came with it is only about 1 foot long.

I have a USB cable that came with a digital camera I bought years ago
that works on the solid state hard drive, and I'd like to get another
like it so that I can keep the external hard drive plugged in, and plug
in my camera whenever I want. (Rather than unplug the hard drive
whenever I want to tranfer photos from the camera to my computer.)

The cable I have now has "cylinders" molded into the cable a few inches
from each end. I expect they clean up the signal or something. Does
anyone know what these "cylinders" are called and what they do?

The cable I have now has the following markings on it:
USB VER 2.0
28 AWG/1P
28 AWG/2C
TAIYO
2725
E176097
Underwriters Labs "Recognized Component" mark
AWM
80 deg. C
30 V
VW-1

I'd like to buy a similar quality cable. Since this cable came with a
digital camera, I'm wondering if the best place to buy really high
quality USB cables like this would be in a camera store. If someone is
paying $1500 for a really good camera, they're not going to cheap out on
the cables they use to upload their pictures onto their computer, right?





Why not buy the cheap cable and compare transfer speeds between your
Digital Camera USB cable and the cheap USB cable. Then you can tell us
if there is a problem with the cheap USB cable.
If it doesn't work well, return it and get your $1.99 + tax back.

Mikek