Review on [10Gbps] USB C Female To USB Male Adapter (2-Pack) by Shree Carmean

They appear to be well built and work well. I've used one quite a bit to connect a 5-bay external case to my computer and transfer and compare a bunch of files on the computer and external drives. The speeds were decent, if not as fast as I expected, but I can't tell if that's due to this adapter or other factors. Generally they work and I have no reason to believe that will change. One thing I would like to warn potential buyers about is the 10Gb/s/5Gb/s/480Mb/s speeds. There are two options with these adapters. The most common type runs at 5Gbps no matter how you connect your USB-C cable to it, which is nice because you don't have to worry about it and you don't get stuck at low speeds if you get it wrong. However, the downside is that you are limited to 5 Gbps. This is another species that is much less common. It offers higher speeds of 10Gbps, which makes speeds asymmetric, but the downside is that if you connect the wrong way, you'll be severely limited to USB 2.0, which is only 480Mbps (and actually slightly less due to overhead). ). I chose this one because I liked the idea of getting faster speeds and figured I'd just flip it if I didn't wire it right. However, looking back, I wish I'd gone a different type because if you plug it in the wrong way, you start the file transfer and find it's slow. Now you either have to wait for it to complete (at slow speed). disconnect and flip before proceeding, or you must stop, disable/flip and then restart. Much more uncomfortable than what crossed my mind when I decided to go with them. Another thing is that even at a speed of "only" 5 Gb/s, this is more than enough and most people rarely, if ever, exceed this value. That's 625 MB/s, and a *fast* hard drive transfers data at 150-200 MB/s and usually less. You only need 10 Gb/s vs 5 if you're transferring from one SSD to another, and even then it depends on the files being transferred. This is the adapter to get. But if most/all of your HDD-to-HDD or phone/tablet/flash drive use cases connect to your computer, you're probably better off using a 5Gb/s symmetric adapter.