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I bought it because most of the cheap USB cables can't carry more than data, and a lot of those drives don't come with external power supplies.After striking out on several brands, I bought this one (hoping that the "pro series" would be heavier gauge) -- and it worked great. This is a very well-made USB cable, and is heavy-enough gauge to let you use with 2.5" hard drives to carry both power and data.
very pleased with the product, buying it at the store would have cost me 15.00 more than I paid for it at amazon.com so I am very pleased with my purchase.
I would have to speculate as to why - just be aware that this is not the right choice for most hard drives, unless it has a separate power cable. First off, this product works flawlessly for our phones - a smart phone and a blackberry curve. With the original cable, it ran off just the 5-pin mini without the separate power cable. With the separate power cable our hard drive runs fine. There are zero issues whatsoever for those. That said, as other reviewers have pointed out, some portable hard drives use the same pin configuration yet do not receive enough power through this cable to run.
I bought this cable so I'd have a cable for each device, and saved twenty-four bucks vs the "factory" cable. I lost the cable to my Garmin Venture the first week I had it, but found that the cable to my Canon A80 worked just as good.
Delivery was slow, but I got them. These cables were to be used as extenders. Works just fine.
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