[Zxian]

I'm wondering if I might be able to ask some others for some help in finding this for me...

1FT USB 2.0 MaleA-MaleA


Everything else I've found has been either an extension or an A-B cable or something else. I'd like this for my external hard drive, since it usually sits right next to my laptop on the desk.

Any website or store would do. Even if they don't do shipping, or the shipping would be a rediculous cost, let me know. I'm starting to wonder if these cables even exist...

[ripken204]

ebay's your friend
http://cgi.ebay.com/3-FOOT-USB-2-0-A-to-A-...1QQcmdZViewItem

[gamehead200]

Why does your external hard drive have a female A jack?

[LLXX]

gamehead200, on Jul 4 2006, 09:40 PM, said:

Why does your external hard drive have a female A jack?

Don't they all have one of these?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:PCB_mou..._connectors.jpg (one on the left)

[Zxian]

@ripken204 - Thanks, but that's still 3 ft. The cord that I have is 3 or 4 feet, and it's too long.

gamehead200, on Jul 4 2006, 07:40 PM, said:

Why does your external hard drive have a female A jack?

It's a standard A form jack on the hard drive, and not the B form. It's a very narrow 2.5" mobile hard drive enclosure, and I'm guessing that the B jack is too tall for it. You can see the enclosure that I'm using here..

[gamehead200]

That's the first time I see a drive enclosure with an A-form jack... But I guess there's a first time for everything!

[Zxian]

I actually like it better. The B form jack is too close to a circle or a square IMO, so you've got to figure out which one of 4 ways it goes in, while the A jack is only up or down. Not to mention that some "A" ends cables have the USB symbol on the "top" of the plug, making it easier to figure out one way from the other.

[Nerwin]

this is the only smallest one i can find : http://www.expansys....?code=EXP_USBAA

It's not 1 feet but its 4 feet smaller than 6ft.

OR

http://cgi.ebay.com/3-FOOT-USB-2-0-A-to-A-...6QQcmdZViewItem

This post has been edited by computerMan: 05 July 2006 - 08:35 PM

[puntoMX]

Cut that cable to 1´ and connect both parts again, use thermal-shrink-hose to finish it .

[CoffeeFiend]

I've bought some retractable USB cables (that come with all kinds of different USB plugs too - like the tiny ones for cameras and memory cards readers and such too).

These to be exact. Kinda nice. They go on special for like 3$ CAD every now and then

[Zxian]

@crahak - Thanks for the link, but those types of cables don't support USB 2.0. Since this is for my external hard drive, the extra speed would be nice.

@puntoMX - I was thinking that, but I'm just worried that my soldering will come undone after a while or something of the sort. I'd rather not have to keep fixing it if I can find a pre-made one.


It looks like 3ft is the smallest that they go... I wish that there were cheap USB ends, bulk cable, and crimpers. I've got about 600ft of Cat5e sitting at home with all the amenities, so I can make my own network cable as short or as long as I want, but not USB...

[puntoMX]

Yeah, I how it feels... But there are simply not enough people that ask for 1´ cables, what you can do is order 1000 of them in China .

No seriously, there are no shorter cables that the ones of 3.3´ (1 meter) A-A, but there are gender changers I think, let me see... googling... there....

[Bigbrit]

Everything from 6 inches to 15 feet.

http://www.cyberguys...ll.asp?sort=rev

[Zxian]

OH MY GOD!!!!! THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!!!!!


Sorry for the caps, but BigBrit - you're my hero!

USB 2.0 Liberator, Am To Am, 1ft

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks again!

[puntoMX]

Hmm, never saw those, way cool. To bad they don´t sell CRAP! here in Mexico, as always... *cries*

[Zxian]

Wow.... this is great.

I placed the order for that cable and a 1ft USB-iPod cable as well last night, and in the confirmation e-mail, I realized that my postal code had been entered wrong. I called their customer support number and I was talking to a real live person within 30 seconds.

Quote

Him - "Hi, my name is Fred*. How can I help you today?"
Me - "Hi, I seem to have mis-entered my postal code when I placed an order last night"
Him - "Ok, what's the order number?"
Me - "It's X1234567"
Him - "Alrighty, let's see here... oh yup... it says here A1B 2C. What should it be?"
Me - "A1B 2C3"
Him - *click click click* "Alright - done. Now I can clear it off for shipment... Anything else I can do for you?"
Me - "Nope - that's it. Thank you."
Him - "Have a great weekend!"

*Names have been altered for privacy protection...


Now THAT'S great customer service. I'll let everyone know how long it takes for them to get here, but if it's within a few days, this is going to be where I get the hard to find stuff from now on!

[Nerwin]

Yeah thats very good customer service, I remember when I called Dell, the Tech (Hardware) support person did not even know what a motherboard was!

so I chatted with them online, got my info under 5 min!, And of course they actually knew what a motherboard was!

[ripken204]

computerMan, on Jul 7 2006, 10:54 PM, said:

Yeah thats very good customer service, I remember when I called Dell, the Tech (Hardware) support person did not even know what a motherboard was!

so I chatted with them online, got my info under 5 min!, And of course they actually knew what a motherboard was!

i dont get whats funny? why would any customer service person know anything about what they are selling? i mean seriously, since when has a customer service person ever had to know anything about their own product? i really cant answer that question. that why when i see dell advertising their customer service, im like, ya right. and how they have a high quality prouct. i dont think so, a 200watt psu isnt high quality imo.

but i still dont think its as bad as when i was looking for an xbox. i went radioshack and asked this ~22 year old guy if they had an xbox. he had no clue what an xbox was... what a f***ing id***.

[puntoMX]

Same thing with compUSA:

"A sempron 64bits, that doens´t exists... It´s like a Celeron with HT... (give me one I was thinking )", that was in McAllen TX by the way, the "most technical guy" there the said...

[ripken204]

i saw a gateway computer on qvc last week. it had a 64bit cpu but it came with the 32bit windows. the guy advertising made it sound like since it has a 64bit processor that it was soo much faster, even though he didnt mention how it was on the 32bit windows.