The USB3 disks are mostly portable drives, disk backup, disk libraries that connects and disconnects rather often. They are sold with unfortunately too short beads given the availability of jacks on computers or other media players. The AmazonBasics cable is of good quality, flexible enough not to interfere between two backup, update or copy. It responds perfectly to what is expected of him, namely that the rate remains unchanged - beyond the 100MB / s (as an indication, it is home to 7MB / s WiFi, 30MB / s with USB2 connection) . If you have access problems, cravings for comfort of use, there is no hesitation.