USB3 Cable to External HDD
I'm hoping this is going be a simple question to answer. I use an external StarTech RAID drive connected to my Linux server. It is formatted HPFS this contains mainly my music for the Logitech Media Server. Very rarely I need to connect this drive to my Windows 7 machine to do some maintenance that through the network is very slow.
The HDD uses a USB3 interface, so to get that extra speed I recently purchased online a USB3 5 metre cable. To put it in a nutshell it does not work. I'm wondering if I'm missing something here. The cable was sold as a printer cable I am presuming there is no difference or could it be the length of the cable. The final thing is did I just simply by a dud cable. I have no other way of testing this with out another USB3 device. Any USB2 cable that I have works fine with it I was just looking for bit extra speed especially when copying moving around quite large amounts of data. Thanks, Robert… |
Hi there,
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Well, USB3 is ten times faster, so I'd assume that the signal timings are even more crucial there. Quote:
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Thanks for your very quick reply, it is the only device that I had any experience with USB3. I'll see what other people say hopefully I'll get some more replies from some people are actually using USB3 devices and cables. I must say I was a bit disappointed when the cable came because it seems to be a very thin cable compared with my shorter USB3 cable that came with the drive.
Yes I have a USB2 10 metre cable but that has a booster half way along and it works fine it's also quite a heavy substantial cable. Robert… |
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