Thread 105904639

>>105904801
I do but I only buy drives with type C these days.
Micro B 3.0 was a dogshit stopgap connector that was only used because it was the only option for its size, type C is objectively better once it came around

Anonymous 7/14/2025, 7:39:06 PM No.105904927 >>105907020 >>105909295

>>105904780
It’s very real, it just never saw much use.
Lots of weird usb formats like that out there. There’s also universal type A which is a legit standard but nobody uses it because it’s more expensive

Anonymous 7/14/2025, 7:40:47 PM No.105904945 >>105904975 >>105905204

1200px-13W3_Stecker.jpg md5: 822e0102... 🔍

Anonymous 7/14/2025, 7:44:24 PM No.105904975

>>105904945
SGI video connector probably most notably

Anonymous 7/14/2025, 7:58:03 PM No.105905138 >>105905204 >>105912777

Low_Force_Helix_Adapter_Multi_Angle_Shot.jpg md5: 5a786a3d... 🔍

>>105904639 (OP)
aaaaaaahhhhhhhh

Anonymous 7/14/2025, 8:01:31 PM No.105905175

>>105904639 (OP)
Proof there is no god

Anonymous 7/14/2025, 8:02:02 PM No.105905182

>>105904801
>>105904639 (OP)
I have one of these and it's slow as shit but luckily its just a back up drive plugged into my NAS

Anonymous 7/14/2025, 8:03:58 PM No.105905204

for really big mistakes.gif md5: 74ebff84... 🔍

>>105904639 (OP)
>>105904945
>>105905138
TAKE COVER BOYS

Anonymous 7/14/2025, 8:27:46 PM No.105905422 >>105917620

SATA-Express-Cable.jpg md5: 1b904d70... 🔍

>>105904639 (OP)

Anonymous 7/14/2025, 9:18:45 PM No.105906008 >>105906956 >>105907049

Macintosh_HDI_SCSI.jpg md5: 0c89f391... 🔍

>bends pin
Tough luck.

Anonymous 7/14/2025, 9:35:27 PM No.105906207

>>105904639 (OP)
They should have stopped at eSATA

Anonymous 7/14/2025, 10:08:34 PM No.105906593 >>105915367

1743060509079827.png md5: d1fa9d60... 🔍

>>105904639 (OP)
>jeets defended this shit for years here just to cope about the lightning port
ay ay ay saar

Anonymous 7/14/2025, 10:37:43 PM No.105906883

>>105904801
Most of the external caddies I see anymore use USB-B and an external power supply. I've only seen this connector on a seagate that draws power from the same USB cable, and another seagate that failed.

Anonymous 7/14/2025, 10:41:39 PM No.105906934

>>105904639 (OP)
I actually liked it because you could easily see which orientation to insert it in.
Type C is even better of course but it was alright

Anonymous 7/14/2025, 10:43:57 PM No.105906956 >>105907094 >>105909051 >>105909479 >>105913750

Apple_Desktop_Connector_7669.jpg md5: 12d3f267... 🔍

>>105906008
DVI is pretty cool, let's make our own version of it

Anonymous 7/14/2025, 10:46:44 PM No.105906982 >>105909435

>>105904865
>only used because it was the only option for its size
It's also backwards compatible with Micro B 2.0 cables, which were very common at the time.
You'd only get 2.0 speeds of course but for charging it was great to have that option.

Anonymous 7/14/2025, 10:50:58 PM No.105907020 >>105909295

>>105904927
>it just never saw much use
There are 6 years between the spread of USB3 on consumer PCs (2011) and the advent of USB-C (2017).
All external 2.5" drives during that time used that micro usb 3.0.
I have one of those as a backup drive.

Anonymous 7/14/2025, 10:51:53 PM No.105907031

>>105904860
*you're

Anonymous 7/14/2025, 10:54:20 PM No.105907049

aaa.png md5: 6194e25d... 🔍

>>105906008
Dios mio, la creatura

Anonymous 7/14/2025, 10:59:29 PM No.105907094 >>105908579

>>105906956
This at least had a purpose. It carried monitor power and USB, allowing for a single cable from the monitor. No separate power supply needed.

Anonymous 7/14/2025, 11:12:51 PM No.105907240 >>105909207

usb composite.jpg md5: 8feec014... 🔍

>>105904780
There was a USB variant with built-in video and audio. I have two of these.

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 1:21:44 AM No.105908579 >>105909051

>>105907094
I never had a monitor where this worked, DVI still needed power, coulda been shitty monitors though. Waiting on USB-C/thunderbolt power-and-video-at-once to be standard...

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 1:51:39 AM No.105908838

>>105904639 (OP)
These flimsy things always bend and stop working really quickly.

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 2:14:32 AM No.105909051 >>105911008

Apple Cinema Display 22-inch.jpg md5: 895b07fd... 🔍

>>105908579
You misunderstand me.

The connector in >>105906956 is not DVI, it's ADC: Apple Display Connector.
It had additional pins, allowing it to carry monitor power and USB. Monitors with ADC didn't have a power connector on them. They received all their power via the ADC cable. DVI alone does not support this, only ADC could do this. If you wanted to connect an ADC monitor to a computer that only had DVI, you needed a separate power-injector box.

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 2:19:13 AM No.105909097 >>105912404 >>105916117

amazonbasics-ieee-1394-firewire-cable-4-pin-6-pin-56a6fadd3df78cf772913fe6.jpg md5: 81a005ac... 🔍

>>105904639 (OP)
>2025... I am forgotten

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 2:35:09 AM No.105909207

1732682508389834.jpg md5: 9d921ed1... 🔍

>>105907240
I'm fairly certain this and USB On the go were totally fucking out of spec, lmao

Genuinely hate USB-C, btw

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 2:39:19 AM No.105909244

1738493459978835.jpg md5: 5be332c4... 🔍

>charges u

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 2:42:07 AM No.105909268 >>105909370

MHL.png md5: 97d37a41... 🔍

Anyone remember MHL? A bunch of phones supported it. Absolutely fucking cursed standard.
USB Micro-B on one side, HDMI on the other. But Micro-B doesn't have enough pins to transmit a HDMI signal, so despite having a HDMI connector on the other end, it didn't actually transfer compliant HDMI. You needed a TV with MHL support, or a converter dongle, to get a proper HDMI signal from it.

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 2:44:40 AM No.105909295 >>105909421

1742119763834448.png md5: d791c409... 🔍

>>105907020
>>105904927
what the FUCK is this PIECE OF SHIT?

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 2:46:06 AM No.105909308

>>105904639 (OP)
based
I liked it because I could ask for other peoples' chargers but if they needed mine it wouldn't work

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 2:53:02 AM No.105909370

s3mhadap.main.jpg md5: 3c63c3d1... 🔍

>>105909268
I used my S3 MHL output with a converter to HDMI but the S3 supported the 11pin mhl variant
wich had more pins like the current usb-a 3.0 connector.

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 2:58:59 AM No.105909421 >>105918764

>>105909295
Reversible usb, you chromosome collector.

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 3:00:57 AM No.105909435

>>105906982
Fuck, I forgot to charge my hard drive again.

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 3:04:52 AM No.105909479 >>105911008

1620210698500.jpg md5: c9fe68cc... 🔍

>>105906956
>we have serial at home
>we have printer ports at home
>we have SCSI at home
>we have PS/2 at home
>we have VGA at home
>we have AUI at home
>we have DVI at home
>we have micro-USB at home
>we have DisplayPort at home

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 6:20:34 AM No.105911008

>>105909479
See >>105909051

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 9:15:58 AM No.105912267 >>105912777

usb-c to micro-b 3.0.jpg md5: 96d1a3f6... 🔍

imagine not using the best USB connector pair

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 9:34:43 AM No.105912404

1442758740443.jpg md5: b296fcb8... 🔍

>>105909097
>slightly nudge cable
>nukes your camcorder's firewire port

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 9:56:37 AM No.105912528 >>105912777 >>105914547

exploring-the-u-fl-connector-and-its-applications-1703240650-939152494.jpg md5: 41a6fb5b... 🔍

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 10:39:00 AM No.105912777 >>105913771

>>105904639 (OP)
wait has /g/ never seen these? I have like three. they still make external hard drives that take these

>>105905138
we have like a thousand of these where I work and everyone is afraid to throw them out because we're not sure why we have them or what they were possibly gotten for

>>105912267
[wilhelm scream]

>>105912528
/g/ is normies who have never replaced or removed a WWAN card

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 12:57:12 PM No.105913636

>>105904654

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 12:58:18 PM No.105913645 >>105913776

>>105904639 (OP)
>One of the best connectors
>It's bad because it just is ok?

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 1:12:15 PM No.105913750

>>105906956
I still have the dual G5 that display connects to and both work

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 1:15:15 PM No.105913771

>>105912777
>who have never replaced or removed a WWAN card
the hell I haven't

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 1:15:41 PM No.105913776

>>105913645
>it's good because it just is ok

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 1:26:30 PM No.105913836 >>105918764

>>105904639 (OP)
reminder, that it was cancelled because "the market department says it looks ugly"
literal faggots

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 1:27:41 PM No.105913842

Looks like esata

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 1:52:57 PM No.105914014

>>105904639 (OP)
Why the fuck is this peace of shit still used on all external hdd's? Can manufacturers ever do anything right without EU forcing them to?

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 3:09:52 PM No.105914547

>>105912528
Man, I hate these little shits like you wouldn't believe. They're so damn tiny they're almost impossible to manipulate precisely enough to get 'em seated on the connector. I guess if you have some good tweezers or something they might not be such a pain, but I don't have any handy really. If I never have to mess with one again it'll still be too soon.

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 4:03:57 PM No.105915000

>>105904639 (OP)
this image makes it look bigger and worse than it actually is. it's the exact same width as USB-A

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 4:37:53 PM No.105915236

hdiadapter3-1.jpg md5: a304b0ae... 🔍

Love Apple and their proprietary standards

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 4:56:39 PM No.105915367

>>105906593
I too, love making shit up saar

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 6:24:18 PM No.105916117

>>105909097
man i should get the fuckin firewire pcb board for my pc so i could transfer video from parents old camcoder

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 9:02:45 PM No.105917620

>>105905422
An entire generation of motherboards were cursed with this bullshit waste of PCIe lanes that never had a single product released for it.
I'm still angry that nobody got any refunds for this garbage.

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 10:00:42 PM No.105918214

250px-Nubus_graphics_card.jpg md5: bdca3882... 🔍

>pin bends
>card is forever fucked

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 10:19:20 PM No.105918404

>>105904780
I have one on my external hard drive m8. Didn't know that was its name but definetely real.

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 10:20:14 PM No.105918419

>>105904639 (OP)
>>105904721
>>105904780
>not knowing about USB connectors for slave devices
/g/-Technology

Anonymous 7/15/2025, 10:49:23 PM No.105918764

>>105909421
if you come near me with that horrific spec I'm calling a priest

>>105913836
it's also a flimsy piece of shit