maybe the problem is that you guys are the type of people who believe
everything you read on the internet because whenever I've ranted usually
frothing at the mouth about what a terrible connector USB microbe is I have
gotten a lot of push back from the community defending it you guys point
out words you've read like that it's rated to 10,000 insertions and
extractions which is 5,000 more than any
of the USB Mini that preceded it and
that it was specifically redesigned to
wear out the cable rather than the device so your fancy th000 smartphone
doesn't turn into a fancy th000 paper
weight but me I think that microbe especially the
USB 3 variant that showed up briefly on
Samsung phones isn't that durable I
think this whole thing is a lie propagated by big USB I think in the
real world micr B breakes before it's
been inserted 10,000 times and I am
going to blow this thing wide
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video description much like the prenatal
development of my children this video has been 9 months in the making let's
just hope it turns out a little better so in order to conduct my test I asked
Samsung to send me their older portable SSD T1 to which they said no s well
first they said yeah sure no problem then they said oh sorry we can't do that
so I actually had to buy one of these and it wasn't hard to find a brand new
one but I did brand new sealed this is
basically a similar idea but it uses a USB 3 micro connector then because micro
b is actually designed to wear out the cable first rather than the connector on
the device I wanted to make sure that In fairness I was sourcing two brand new
cables so I've got a brand new micro b cable and a brand new type-c cable the
methodology here is I'm going to take these two SSD
this one is brand new never used too by the way I'm going to unplug and plug
back in let's say you know 50 to 100 times at a time and then I'm going to
check them again and see if they work
until one of them dies so that's how it
all started in August 2016 I set out on
the expedition of a lifetime I began
with sets of 50 insertions making entries in my journal between each set
by the first 100 insertions both connectors had lost their like new
stiffness by 250 even ignoring the
orientation agnosticism USBC more
forgiving positioning and lower mating
Force were making the repetitions much faster and by 500 micro b was actually
the one that felt closer to its original
state with type c being looser but n Nei
connector was showing any signs of giving up the ghost and I have to say
the tedium of the journey began to take its toll but I
persevered until a thousand insertions
by this stage USBC noticeably looser feel made it a welcome break from the
micro b connector that seemed to be
grabbing more stickly than ever before
and I began to think that maybe my bad experiences with it had less to do with
raw cycle durability and more to do with
everyday wear like sitting plugged in for an extended period or getting
wiggled back and forth while being moved around so with that in mind and totally
not because I just got busy and forgot
the devices sat connected but untouched
for six long hard throbbing months but
then we hired someone who isn't me to
pick up the torch and insert like he'd never inserted before James still took
another 3 months to get to the big finish but he gets full marks for
creativity he used the yatsi grip the double hander and the old pulling a
carrot out of the ground technique logging his observations along the way
as well so by 2500 insertions micro b actually needed
a little Coke to get it in there by 3200
it had actually learned to loosen up and relax for a less friction full
experience by 4500 type C's tight fit
had noticeably loosened while micro b had reached a state of downright
slipperiness by 6,000 insertions we made
the observations that b was more difficult to insert than C but seemed to
be more engaged during the experience and that the manh hours were beginning
to make this one of the most expensive videos we had ever made with no end in
sight a 10,000 insertion rating
theoretically means at least 10,000 I
mean it could go to 50,000 for all we know James begged me to allow him to
build a machine to do this for him but I
bravely told him no because that would remove the imperfect human element of
our test so his journey continued unabated until
one day long after all hope for Humanity
had drained from his heart James inserted the micro be for the
8,000th time and nothing happened the
machine didn't recognize the device
anymore so then after 8,000 insertions
the USB type-c drive is working
perfectly with a connection feel that I would actually go as far as to still
trust but the micro b is toast at only
80% of what it was theoretically rated
for and we tried a brand new cable to
see if per the spec it was actually the cable that died first the cable is
mangled but still works leading us to the conclusion then this is a sample
size of one so apart from knowing the approximate number of insertions
somewhere between 7900 and 8,000 that it
lasted before breaking it's really not any more meaningful than someone else's
anecdotal evidence that their connector failed we haven't demonstrated
conclusively that microbe is overrated but I feel like what we have added some
strength to is that on top of its reversibility extra pins for added
functionality and yes excellent
durability type c is truly a worthy rep
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