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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 micro-b is I have gotten a lot of pushback from the community defending it you guys point out words you've read like that it's rated to ten thousand insertions and extractions which is five thousand more than any of the USB mini ports that preceded it and that it was specifically redesigned to wear out the cable rather than the device so your fancy thousand dollar smartphone doesn't turn into a fancy thousand dollar paperweight but may I think that micro-b especially the USB free 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 micro B breaks before it's been inserted ten thousand times and I I'm gonna blow this thing wide open Brow's privately and securely with tunnel they're the simple VPN app try tunnel bear for free at the link in the video description much like the prenatal development of my children this video has been nine months in the making let's just hope it turns out a little better so in order to conduct my tests I asked Samsung to send me their older portable SSD t1 to which they said no start 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 that 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 B 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 SSDs this one is brand-new never used to by the way I'm going to unplug and plug back in let's say you know fifty to a hundred 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 USB sees more forgiving positioning and lower mating force we're 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 neither connector was showing any signs of giving up the ghost and I have to say the tedium of the journey B again to take its toll but I persevered until a thousand insertions by this stage USB sees noticeably looser feel made it a welcome break from the micro B connector that seems to be grabbing more stickily 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 every day we're 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 three months to get to the Big Finish but he gets full marks for creativity he used the Yahtzee grip the double hander and the ol 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 coaxing 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 man 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 can 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 B for the 8,000th time and nothing happened the machine didn't recognize the device anymore so then after eight thousand insertions the USB type-c drive is working perfectly with a connection field 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 seventy nine hundred and eight thousand 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 micro B 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 replacement ting is the mobile carrier that's focused on customer service and customer satisfaction I know it's crazy but for real you call them and you talk directly to a person and the bills are even cheap you only pay for the data and voice service that you actually use with the average ting bill coming in at about 23 dollars a month 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