UGREEN Hard Drive Cable, USB 3.0 Type A to Micro USB B Cable, External Hard Drive Lead Compatible with Western, Seagate Expansion, Toshiba Canvio, Galaxy S5 Note 3, Camera(0.5M)

Strong and durable. Worked as expected. These leads can be hit and miss

Not much to say, it works as intended and the quality is great (thicker and a bit longer cable than others I own)Happy with this item.And yes, for durability, gold tipped plugs are advantageous over silver for example as they don't ionise or corrode the same way. Meaning over time your connections are better off but not completely necessary in home environment. You pick for your use case.

I use my harddrive quite often for work and having purchased a case for the harddrive, I purchased this affordable wire and it has not let me down once. Super fast transfer speeds = happy amazon buyer. The only down side to the item is, its not as flexible which makes it confusing to place the harddrive on a desk or insert the usb into a device (laptop) as easily.

I purchased this to replace a faulty cable that I had with an external USB3 hard drive.The first thing that came to mind when I received the item is the excellent quality of the cable, which has a really nice weighty cable.Coupled with its gold-plated terminals, it feels like a really durable and long-lasting cable so I’m glad I’ve purchased this.It’s definitely a USB3 as I’m getting the expected data transfer speeds I expected on my 7200 RPM SATA III external hard drive.It’s only been a few months since purchase so time will tell, but if URGREEN’s other products give me the positive impression that this does, then I’ll be buying more of their stuff in future.

Having recently had a hard drive crash, I looked over the potential causes. Windows 11 does not help with connecting and safely running external hard drives - however, manufacturers of hard drives etc will be aware of this, and should have upped the durability testing / manufacturing accordingly.Having previously replaced cables, I had previously reluctantly accepted, that the narrow plug and fitting on modern usb supply cables / supplies means that the connection would not feel as sturdy as I would like.Now this has been sorted! I can honestly say I was very pleasantly surprised at the precision, strength and hold of the plugs on these new cables within my usb drives, and I thought, why had this not been done before?I guess the cable industry / suppliers may have been chastised as being part of the problem of crashing hard drives, and upped their game.Whatever the background, I would suggest *do* upgrade your usb cables if you ever suspect unsturdy connection to usb devices - as you don't want to be caught with an out of warranty product connected by an old cable going wrong, believe me. The relatively small expense (compared to the cost of the devices one connects using the cables) is a worthwhile expense, no doubt at all.Essential.

If you have a tall Computer case, you may find that you have to stand your External HDD or SSD on top of your Computer. Otherwise, it works very well for it's intended usage.

Good well made cable at a good price

My old external drive and I mean old it is over 10 years old was really slow. The new drive sure is fast sacked up all of my files including music tracks and over 35,000 photos in next to no time at all. A great bit of kit for computer back ups, and now I can back up every file in next to no time as I lost some files when my computer crashed a couple of years ago only due to the time it took to back them up