With the USB3.1 standard, comes the era of reversible connectors to USB devices ushering out the era of fumbling to properly align your USB cable connections. These gold plated USB cables permit the connection of Type C USB 3.1 devices to any USB 2.0 device port. The handy choice for connecting solid state drives, hard drives and other high speed computer peripherals.
USB Type-C connectors are typically found on today's smaller peripheral devices such as laptops, mobile phones and SSDs. Type-C features a reversible plug orientation where plugging it in "upside down" is a thing of the past. It also supports USB 3.1 speeds up to 10Gbps and much high power outputs up to 20V(100W) and 5A. Finally, Type-C USB permits bidirectional power allowing a peripheral, when applicable, to charge a host device.