I stopped buying random USB‑C cables after learning what 'USB4' actually means

Feb 28, 2026 - 08:30
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I stopped buying random USB‑C cables after learning what 'USB4' actually means

I used to consider USB-C cables as office supplies. Cheap, interchangeable, and unworthy of much thought. A cable is a cable, right? Wrong, as it turns out, embarrassingly wrong. The moment it finally clicked for me was when I plugged a brand-new external SSD into my laptop and watched files crawl across at dial-up speeds. It's the exact same underlying issue that explains why your USB-C cable isn't charging your device fast enough. That was the day I had to stop pretending and ask the obvious question: why does the same USB-C port behave so differently depending on which cable I grab from the pile?

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