MX USB 3.0 A Male Plug To USB 3.0 B Male Plug Cord 1.5 Meter (MX-3526)

The classic USB-A to USB-B cable shape is still the standard for printers, scanners, and many external enclosures, but a cable built to the older USB 2.0 spec quietly caps a USB 3.0-capable device down to a fraction of its rated speed. This cord is specifically built and rated for USB 3.0, so a 3.0-capable scanner or external drive gets the transfer speed it's actually designed for rather than bottlenecking through an underspecified cable. At 1.5 metres, it covers the typical desk-to-peripheral distance comfortably. The cable to reach for whenever the connected device is USB 3.0-rated and the whole point is to actually use that speed.