In practical terms, though, most hard drives work much slower than the latest USB versions. USB 4.0 uses the Thunderbolt 3 protocol for data and image transfer speeds of 40 Gb/s.USB 3.1 achieved a super speed of 10 Gb/s.USB 3.0 has a data signaling rate of up to 5 Gb/s.Each new version featured a higher data transfer speed: USB has been through a number of revisions over the years to be compatible with smaller devices.
USB connects everything from external hard drives to keyboards, game controllers, network adapters, and more. USB comes in many different size variants, but you’ll most likely find it on your computer in that familiar rectangular port. It’s been a standard on most Macs and PCs since the late 1990s and has been updated several times since then. Universal Serial Bus (USB) is the most common peripheral interface used to link one device to another and connect to a power source. We’ll tackle the two most common peripheral devices today-the USB-C and Thunderbolt 3.Īre you unsure what the differences between interfaces are and how they affect your backup plans? This installment of “What’s the Diff” is here to help! What Is USB? Some of these ports and interfaces look alike, but they perform differently. How many different adapters do you use to connect your computer to peripheral devices? There’s USB 3, USB-A, USB-C, HDMI… I could go on. But I get what you mean.This post has been updated since it was originally published in March of 2019. In your case a proper comparison would be USB C vs. USB Type C is just the connector and that connector can carry signal of any version of USB, so USB C and USB3.0 aren't things you can compare, the former is a connector, the latter is a version of the USB standard that tells you the maximum speed etc. Īlso I'm gonna be a little pedantic and correct you a little bit on the terminology. You can also buy something like this so that you don't need a dongle, but it's still a somewhat niche cable that won't see much use other than with the seagate HDD. There's no benefit for one or the other except that having a drive that uses the USB C connector is more convenient because you don't need a dongle and you already have at least one more USB C to USB C cable - the charging one you got with your macbook, so you don't have to go search for the one specific cable for the drive.
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