{"id":6729,"date":"2021-11-21T09:54:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T09:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=6729"},"modified":"2021-11-21T09:55:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T09:55:21","slug":"thickness-of-a-usb-cable","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/hardware\/thickness-of-a-usb-cable\/81158.html","title":{"rendered":"Thickness Of a USB Cable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone,<\/p>\n<p>I was just wondering if there is a difference between two USB cables having same set of connectors, but having different thickness.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the USB Cable for my WD 500 GB External Hard Drive got damaged. I tried replacing the cable but no other cable seems to detect the hard drive. Then i got an original cable with the same thickness from a friend and only then my hard drive showed up in My Computer.<\/p>\n<p>So it just had me wondering, does the thickness of a USB Cable matters? if yes how do we measure it ? I mean i just thought that USB Cables were differentiated by their connector types (A,B, Mini etc)<\/p>\n<p>Can anyone shed some light on this? Would be thankful.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. since my friend took his cable back, now i am again searching for a perfectly compatible USB cable for my HD, but haven&#8217;t found any yet.<\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p>SK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":4},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-6729","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/6729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=6729"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=6729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}