Category: USB Hardware & Gadgets
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The Truth About USB-C Adapters: Missing Pins, Slow Speeds, and Cut Corners
Why Some USB-C Adapters Slow Down Speeds Even When They Look Like USB 3.x — and How Hidden Design Shortcuts Cause USB 2.0 Fallback The short answer is that these adapters can slow down data transfer speeds, but not always. The adapter in the photo is a USB-A to USB-C adapter, where the blue insert…
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One Giant Gold Nugget, Millions of USB Sticks
How Many USB Flash Drive PCBs Could You Make From the Monumental Nugget of 1869? If you crack open a USB flash drive hoping to find treasure, you’ll be disappointed—but not entirely wrong. There is gold in there. Not much, not enough to make you rich, and certainly not worth firing up a smelter in…
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Why There Is No Universal Bootable USB Flash Drive
Understanding why a truly universal bootable USB flash drive cannot exist, even though millions of people keep searching for one. People search for a universal bootable USB flash drive because the idea sounds so simple: one USB stick you plug into any computer, and everything just starts. Windows, Mac, Linux, old laptops, new desktops —…
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The Butterfly Effect of USB: How One Design Choice Changed Tech History
A tiny design decision in 1996 didn’t just annoy us — it reshaped tech culture, product adoption, and billions of daily interactions. This post was drafted on a napkin somewhere between a refill and a revelation. Let me paint you a picture. It’s 1996. Somewhere in a conference room filled with beige computers and men…
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A Detailed Sales Pitch on Custom USB Flash Drives
A Construction Worker USB Flash Drive That Builds Lasting Impressions At first glance, this isn’t just another thumb drive—it’s a miniature construction worker, complete with hard hat, safety vest, and a friendly smile. The figure looks like something you’d keep on your desk, and that’s exactly the point. It mixes a useful tool with a…
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Forget Hubs — This Board Packs 25 USB Ports
ASRock’s X870 LiveMixer WiFi puts USB connectivity first with twenty-five total ports for creators, gamers, and power users. Most boards today give you a few decent USB connections and expect you to figure out the rest with hubs and adapters. That’s fine for casual setups, but chances are if you’re running external drives, cameras, audio…
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Pros and Cons of the Raspberry Pi USB 3 Hub
It is common to hear Raspberry Pi owners want more USB ports. GetUSB.info just read about them introducing an official 4 port USB hub. Sweet. To note, most Raspberry Pi single-board computers, except for the Raspberry Pi Zero and A+ models, include a built-in USB hub that splits one USB connection into several USB Type-A…
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Star Wars R2D2 USB Hub – 3.0 Speeds
Celebrate the all time fan favorite of Star Wars with this R2D2 USB hub that not only lights up but also plays his notorious R2D2 sounds. Before we get to the product, let us take a few minutes and review how awesome R2D2 is with this summary of his big screen persona. R2-D2 is a…
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Transfer Photos from iPhone to PC – Easy
Transfer Photos from iPhone to PC – Easy and Automated iCloud is the default way to store your photos from your Apple device to another location. Once the files are in your iCloud, you can log into the iCloud account and save those images to your computer. However, many users don’t use the iCloud service…
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Test USB-C Cable For USB 2.0 and USB 3.0x Standards
The C2C caberQU is a USB board to test a USB-C cable in a variety of situations or configurations. This handy tool for computer professionals will check USB-C cables in great detail and down to every pin found inside a USB-C cable. It applies voltage to all the pins in a cable and detects which…
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Solved: (Video) Windows Cannot Delete the System Volume on This Disk
Sometimes Windows cannot delete the system volume on the disk because the partition table is corrupt. The solution is very easy and all the tools required to solve this problem are pre-installed and ready to use on any Windows 10 (+) computer. In short, the Disk Management utility cannot delete the volume because there is…