ULTRICS USB Male A to Micro B Cable 1M, Up to 5Gbps High Speed Hard Drive Cable, USB 3.0 Charger Cable Compatible with My Passport Seagate Expansion Toshiba Canvio LaCie Rugged WD Samsung S5 Note 3

Buying cables can be a hit and miss affair - you don't always get low quality cables when they're cheap and you can't just rely on higher prices to ensure you get a high quality cables with a long life. I know this because over the years I have bought a lot of cables for desktops and laptops and having kids and pets has meant replacing them has become an all too regular activity. This Premium Quality ULTRICS@ USB 3.0 Type A to Micro-B Cable is a cross between these two scenarios - in a good way: It's a premium quality cable at the price you'd expect to pay for a lower quality generic. I bought these cables specifically to complement a Lacie Rugged USB 3 1TB drive I've been given by a friend and side by side it's hard to tell the ULTRICS cable from the LaCie one so from appearances it looks high qualilty, but as anyone who's owned an Apple cable knows, looks can be deceptive. So I have taken time to look more closely at how the cable is made and how it performs.The connectors are solidly made at both ends and finished to high tolerances. They fit smoothly yet firmly into Macs, PCs, mobiles and disk drives I had around to test them with which in turn ensured a reliable connection. (I only say this because I have some USB 3.0 Type A to Type A cables that came with a good quality disk caddy that will disconnect if they're looked at in a funny way, so good quality connectors are a must). The USB connectors themselves are easy to get hold of, being a decent size and with four grip lines on either side of the Type B end, but they're not so wide or tall that they obscure adjacent USB ports when they're plugged in - often a problem with some cables or devices where the USB ports are very close together. The Type B-Micro end may be a problem if you're looking to use it with a mobile phone that has a case - the connector's metal component is only long enough to securely connect when the connector is sitting flush with the device it's connected to. It works brilliantly with the LaCie Rugged 1TB drive and a friend's mobile phone (Samsung Galaxy S5?) but the USB sockets on both of those are flush to the surface of the device.At the cable end of the USB connector, the cable is firmly attached to the plug and shielded from excessive bending by a short sleeve. The USB3 cable itself is 5mm in diameter so together with the protection provided by the socket you'll need at least 10cm in front of any USB socket to ensure that the cable isn't overstressed. That said, the cable itself is flexible and both the 30cm and 1m cables can fit snugly alongside 2.5" external disk drives in their hard cases. The cable sheath is a pleasant blue colour, making it easy to find this USB 3.0 cable in a tangle of black USB 2.0 cables at the back of my desk.In terms of performance, I've tested them with high speed solid state drives and got fast read and write transfer times (the cable connection runs at 5GB/s) when used in conjunction with a good quality internal USB 3.0 card. The cable also works with USB 2.0 ports with no issues whatsoever - the speed is limited to USB 2.0 speeds as you'd expect but they function perfectly. (I only mention this because I had an old USB 3.0 cable that wasn't backwards compatible).Taken as a whole, this is an easy product to recommend. At £3.29 for a 30cm cable and £3.49 for a 1m cable I think they represent very good value for money when you can pay upwards of £10 for a cable in department stores or big box retailers.I hope you found this review helpful and that it's assisted you in making a purchasing decision (whether it's to buy this product or not). This review has been written after two days solid use on a laptop, desktop and mobile phone. Should any problems arise during further use of the cable the review and rating will be updated to reflect these. If you have any question, I'm happy to reply. If you think my review isn't helpful, please let me know why so I can make future reviews better.TL;DR I think the cable is good quality, great value for money and I didn't get paid to say that.N.B. This cable was purchased by me at the price advertised. In the spirit of honest Amazon customer reviews I will say that it arrived with an offer from the seller of a free USB 2.0 cable in return for writing a review of this product. I have DECLINED this generous incentive.

Bought to connect my external SSD drives for my music software.As I need to stream from the SSD drives cables can sometimes be a bottleneck. These seem to work fine and look well made - would rather have had black but not available - anyway they work fine.

As this cable is robust, there's not much flex to it hence you have to be careful whilst it's in use not to touch tap of brush the cable as a result it will send the product that its plugged into skating across the surface OR worst damage the female USB port that you plug it into.

As I have an engineering background, I like to organise my workplace, so for my data cables I have black for USB2, blue for USB3 and red for eSATA to make some sense out of my (typical) PC cable spaghetti. Just recently bought a Verbatim "Store n GO" portable HDD and it came with a measly 25cm black USB3A to Micro-B cable. Therefore I needed a longer cable, preferably in blue with the right connectors.This blue cable is just perfect, as it is long enough to reach the back of my PC, transfers data at USB3's fast speeds, is reasonably flexible but tough and is very cost effective - so that's sorted.

Good cable

A very good product - my biggest concern when buying this cable was that it fit snuggly in the port rather than there being some movement in the port. I have not been disappointed - snug fit, and very good data transfer speed (I have no way of knowing what this is, but it seems quicker than the previous times I've transferred data with other cables).Very happy with the product, reasonably priced, and I'd happily recommend to others.

Im not a commuter geek but this seems to work better than any lead I've had before, It just seems to be faster, I went for the short one so my desk is not filled with leads trailing all over the place, but somehow this has speeded up my work, I didn't know a lead could do that

Was not very good it’s was average

Guter Händler

Cable resistente y con buena transmisión.

Leider passt das Handy nicht beim Samsung S5.ZUddm ist es sehr bollig.Geht zurück da nicht verwendbar

Il cavo funziona bene, è morbido al punto giusto e la plastica di cui è composto sembra essere di ottima qualità...consigliato!

Da ich das Kabel meiner externen Festplatte verloren hatte, brauchte ich dringend ein neues. Dieses hier ist zwar wesentlich kürzer als mein vorheriges, aber für meinen Gebrauch mehr als genügend. Angeschlossen hat es das getan, was es sollte und ich konnte ohne Probleme auf meine Dateien zugreifen.