[PLUG] Universality of USB Cables

[chris (fool) mccraw]

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 18 May 2016, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
>
> > My understanding is that while they will all be usable to some extent,
> > there are differences in cabling that actually matter for transfer speed
> > or power transfer:
>
> Chris,
>
>    Probably won't make any difference for me. Transferring images from the
> camera via cable rather than removing the SD card and mounting that in the
> desktop, or occasionally updating GPS maps are not speed dependent since
> the
> amount of data is comparatively small. Won't use them for charging
> batteries
> so power transfer is not an issue.


Dunno what kind of camera you have, but the last camera I had, had images
that were many megabytes in size and speed made a huge difference when
transferring.   If you transfer 1-2 pictures at a time no problem, but I
transferred hundreds / huge movie files and it made a noticeable - 10x -
difference when i upgraded to usb3.