USB 3.0 Cable - A-Male To B-Male - 6 Feet (1.8 Meters)

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad W530 laptop with two USB 3 ports I'll call A and B. When using my AC-powered Vantec USB 3 3.5' External HDD, I would get USB 3 speeds when plugged into A, but B would get only USB 2 speeds (and I would get Windows 7's ""this device can perform faster if you use USB 3"" nag). But to complicate matters, my port-powered Innnateck portable USB 3 2.5' drive enclosure would operate at USB 3 speeds when connected to either A or B. Oh great, one of those oddball (likely) hardware issues. (I guess the glass half-full view is that the Innateck worked at Super Speed in both A And B, so at least B wasn't a complete loss as far as USB 3 functionality.)Long story short, I tried a number of solutions and nothing worked. So I decided to try a different (and somewhat shorter) cable, and settled on the AmazonBasics based on some of the reviews and the specs. I got the 3-foot, which is about 9 inches shorter than the Vantec OEM cable (which I believe they had already replaced as part of an RMA of the whole Vantec assembly). I wasn't holding out much hope that switching to this cable would solve the problem, but it did! With the AmazonBasics cable the Vantec is giving me USB 3 Super Speed with port B, too. Great! Hope the solution ""sticks.""BTW, other than length and the AmazonBasics' gold-plated connectors, the two cables looked pretty much the same to me. But on closer inspection I see the AmazonBasics seems somewhat sturdier and thicker the Vantec OEM cable.

Great cable, just a little shorter than expected.It's barely 60Inches from TIP to TIP, NOT a 6 foot cable.You have easily less than 56 inches of actual cable left to work, and even less if your device ports aren't faced DIRECTLY at each other because the thickness of this cable makes bending corners a very large, rounded curve/

I bought three of these to replace shorter USB cables that came with Docks and hubs connected to my Sonnet Allegro USB 3.0 Pro card installed on a Mid-2012 Mac Pro. So far so good. All the external hardware that I have connected by these appear to be stable. I'd certainly recommend these if you need longer USB 3.0 connections.

Toward the end of 2016 I purchased a MacAlly external case for hard drive. It had the USB 3 option so I figured I'd try it with my new MBP.Other than not being able to daisy chain USB 3 the way I can firewire drives, I'm liking it, and this connector has given no problem over the past half year.