OK, so first, I am NOT using a cable. Right now Im using a Sandisk flash drive conencted straight to the iphone. It is this model:
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So USB 3.1, 150MB/s. I cant say Im getting that between the phone and the flash drive. That's whay caused my frustration and the request. Is it worth getting the 400 MB/s version? Or something faster? Id like something that can connect to the ports on my laptop.
My computer supposedly has USB 3, FWIW. it claims 5 Gbps. Does this imply that even my "good" cables, arent??!?
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Thing is, I know from even back on my iphone 12 Pro, when image capture worked, once it started transferring files and writing them to by USB HDD, it went FAST. And, the new higher resolution, but better compressed HEIC files are smaller than the older lower res JPEGs!
Im willing to try to find another USB cable if it makes my existing USB ports more usable... It would sure beat buying another computer! And burning down my battery trying to backup files to the USB C flash drive. I have Anker USB A-C cables, and theyre really nice and well made... But in looking at my prior purchases, I can see that at least some are only rated as USB 2. I also had some cheap short patch USB A-C but when I looked it up, it was only 480Mbps.
So I need to find a USB A-C that is rated for something faster, right? 5-10 Gbps? Any recommendations? I see that the Anker Powerline II USB A-C is USB 3.1, gen 2, and 10000Mbps. I also see the Cable Creation brand that claims USB 3.2 Gen 2, 10Gbps.
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I tried that with just a few pics sometime back and it was cumbersome. I dont think it will work when the numbers are in the thousands of files...