[Discuss] USB Cables (was Debian 11 -> 12)

[Kent Borg]

On 5/30/24 14:25, Rich Pieri wrote:
> They were adamant that there was something wrong with their
> device, but we finally convinced them to replace the cable.

Yes, I have on occasion connected drives using a converter to connect 
old USB to USB-C, that doesn't make a tight connection, and with a 
little wiggle it disconnects. Good cables matter.


In this case I'm using those nice thick cables that came with the little 
portable WD drives I am using, short USB-C to USB-C, including using the 
converters that came with them to plug into an old type USB jack on the 
powered hub. To the connect to the Pi I use a longer, also heavy cable 
that I think came with the hub.

This hardware worked on my laptop, worked on PI 4 with slow USB, and 
currently works great on Pi 4 with Linux SW raid 1.


-kb