Understanding iMac Ports, Cables, and USB in 2021
Channel: Mac Geek Gab
Date: 03/06/2021

In this mini-episode from Episode 873 John and Dave discuss ports, cables and USB Drives for Mac Desktops! 
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Subtitles:
all right, let's see listener john brings us a question about ports and such. 
so I have two major questions are you aware  how can you help me understand the ports and the cables and can you recommend a one terabyte ssd suitable for a desktop 
yeah okay so let's start with your devices usb has letters and numbers after it
 the letters describe the shape of either the port or the the connector on the cable so the the shape of the connector is what the letters describe so usbc is that connector usb a is different connector usb mini usb well it's not a letter but it sort of is actually there's a letter after it's usually micro usb i think  but the letters describe the shape of the cable the numbers describe the capabilities so your new iMac has  usb c ports and it either has two or four of them um i don't know which model you're getting if it only has two then those two usb c ports are both usb and thunderbolt ports and it's fair to call them usb 4 thunderbolt 4 ports in terms of a drive  you can certainly get a bus power or a a you know wall power drive but with ssds generally speaking you're going to do fairly well with the portable drives too and there's some benefits to this  one that i really like is owc's envoy pro fx because that is both thunderbolt and usb right so that way no matter what you connect it to it will be able to connect to that drive some thunderbolt drives of course are just thunderbolt and nothing else and if you try to connect them to a usb computer they won't be able to read them uh so that's that's a good one  

and then if you want just a usb drive 
i really like the samsung t7s those are  

nice simple drives they work fairly 
well so that's what i go with