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maybe the problem is that you guys are the type of people who believe

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everything you read on the internet because whenever I've ranted usually

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frothing at the mouth about what a terrible connector USB microbe is I have

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gotten a lot of push back from the community defending it you guys point

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out words you've read like that it's rated to 10,000 insertions and

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extractions which is 5,000 more than any

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of the USB Mini that preceded it and

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that it was specifically redesigned to

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wear out the cable rather than the device so your fancy th000 smartphone

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doesn't turn into a fancy th000 paper

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weight but me I think that microbe especially the

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USB 3 variant that showed up briefly on

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Samsung phones isn't that durable I

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think this whole thing is a lie propagated by big USB I think in the

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real world micr B breakes before it's

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been inserted 10,000 times and I am

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going to blow this thing wide

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video description much like the prenatal

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development of my children this video has been 9 months in the making let's

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just hope it turns out a little better so in order to conduct my test I asked

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Samsung to send me their older portable SSD T1 to which they said no s well

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first they said yeah sure no problem then they said oh sorry we can't do that

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so I actually had to buy one of these and it wasn't hard to find a brand new

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one but I did brand new sealed this is

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basically a similar idea but it uses a USB 3 micro connector then because micro

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b is actually designed to wear out the cable first rather than the connector on

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the device I wanted to make sure that In fairness I was sourcing two brand new

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cables so I've got a brand new micro b cable and a brand new type-c cable the

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methodology here is I'm going to take these two SSD

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this one is brand new never used too by the way I'm going to unplug and plug

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back in let's say you know 50 to 100 times at a time and then I'm going to

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check them again and see if they work

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until one of them dies so that's how it

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all started in August 2016 I set out on

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the expedition of a lifetime I began

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with sets of 50 insertions making entries in my journal between each set

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by the first 100 insertions both connectors had lost their like new

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stiffness by 250 even ignoring the

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orientation agnosticism USBC more

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forgiving positioning and lower mating

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Force were making the repetitions much faster and by 500 micro b was actually

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the one that felt closer to its original

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state with type c being looser but n Nei

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connector was showing any signs of giving up the ghost and I have to say

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the tedium of the journey began to take its toll but I

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persevered until a thousand insertions

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by this stage USBC noticeably looser feel made it a welcome break from the

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micro b connector that seemed to be

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grabbing more stickly than ever before

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and I began to think that maybe my bad experiences with it had less to do with

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raw cycle durability and more to do with

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everyday wear like sitting plugged in for an extended period or getting

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wiggled back and forth while being moved around so with that in mind and totally

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not because I just got busy and forgot

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the devices sat connected but untouched

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for six long hard throbbing months but

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then we hired someone who isn't me to

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pick up the torch and insert like he'd never inserted before James still took

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another 3 months to get to the big finish but he gets full marks for

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creativity he used the yatsi grip the double hander and the old pulling a

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carrot out of the ground technique logging his observations along the way

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as well so by 2500 insertions micro b actually needed

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a little Coke to get it in there by 3200

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it had actually learned to loosen up and relax for a less friction full

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experience by 4500 type C's tight fit

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had noticeably loosened while micro b had reached a state of downright

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slipperiness by 6,000 insertions we made

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the observations that b was more difficult to insert than C but seemed to

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be more engaged during the experience and that the manh hours were beginning

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to make this one of the most expensive videos we had ever made with no end in

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sight a 10,000 insertion rating

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theoretically means at least 10,000 I

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mean it could go to 50,000 for all we know James begged me to allow him to

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build a machine to do this for him but I

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bravely told him no because that would remove the imperfect human element of

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our test so his journey continued unabated until

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one day long after all hope for Humanity

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had drained from his heart James inserted the micro be for the

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8,000th time and nothing happened the

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machine didn't recognize the device

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anymore so then after 8,000 insertions

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the USB type-c drive is working

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perfectly with a connection feel that I would actually go as far as to still

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trust but the micro b is toast at only

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80% of what it was theoretically rated

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for and we tried a brand new cable to

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see if per the spec it was actually the cable that died first the cable is

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mangled but still works leading us to the conclusion then this is a sample

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size of one so apart from knowing the approximate number of insertions

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somewhere between 7900 and 8,000 that it

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lasted before breaking it's really not any more meaningful than someone else's

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anecdotal evidence that their connector failed we haven't demonstrated

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conclusively that microbe is overrated but I feel like what we have added some

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strength to is that on top of its reversibility extra pins for added

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functionality and yes excellent

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durability type c is truly a worthy rep

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