I bought these to connect my nameplate drives to the USB 3 port on the back of my PC where the cables provided by the manufacturer were not long enough. It seems to be a good quality cable, good length, good gauge, but the end that should go into the drive didn't feel like it went all the way in (on all three cables I've bought). Get a stable connection or data transfer. I thought it was because one of my drives had failed, but it was the cables! All drives work fine with the short cables they came with. Once I got everything set up and then checked to see if the cables were to blame, it was too late to send it back. avoid them.