If you’ve been following along our USB-C saga, you know that the CC wire in the USB-C cables is used for communications and polarity detection. However, what’s not as widely k ...

USB 3.0 has two high-speed diffpairs added to it, and a USB-C connector has spots for four diffpairs. With the plug, you wire up your USB 3.0 SSRX to USB-C RX1, USB 3.0 SSTX to USB-C TX1, pop a ...

USB-C and other high-speed protocols can push data to warp speeds. Here’s how to make the most of the current standards and what lies ahead. Now that you’re used to seeing co-workers, family ...

USB-C is so hot right now. Even though it’s been in laptops, tablets, phones and even video game controllers for nearly a decade, the port is on the tip of everyone’s tongue, as Apple made USB ...

To find the best USB-C charger for your devices, we tried 35 devices over 2 rounds of testing to find the best wall chargers, whether you need to charge a phone, tablet laptop, or more ...

This hub has two USB-C ports and two USB-A ports, both of which support USB 3.2 Gen 2 transfer speeds at up to 10 Gbps. That’s in addition to the USB-C power pass-through port with advertised 85 ...

After USB 3.2 came out in 2019, the 5-Gbps USB was rebranded again to “USB 3.2 Gen 1,” the 10-Gbps version became “USB 3.2 Gen 2,” and the new 20-Gbps specification became—you guessed it ...

USB flash drives are increasingly being sidelined. Here's why, and what better alternatives exists. By Florian Kastner Contributor, PCWorld May 3, 2025 6:59 am PDT Image: CameraCraft ...

One USB-C and two USB-A jacks deliver 10Gbps speeds using the USB 3.1 standard for lightning-fast file transfers. This makes them ideal for not only basic file management, but also real-time video ...

USB really came of age with USB 2.0, and USB 3.0's increase in speeds to 5Gbps has made it even more useful for all of the use cases mentioned above—it takes less time to perform system backups ...

USB Type-C can go as fast as any USB standard and it will launch with compliancy for ‘USB 3.1’. This generational jump doubles the performance of USB 3.0 from 5Gbps to 10Gbps (equivalent to ...

At this point, USB 2.0 thumb drives are very slow (often a tenth of the speed of USB 3.0 or 3.1 drives), and they have far less capacity than modern devices. A USB 2.0 drive, if you find one ...