Good grief! More technology stuff to drive me crazy.
When my son-in-law, Ed advised me to back up my data (photo files I've been working on exhaustingly) on two external drives he asked me if I had additional blue USB ports on my computer for the drives. "What's a port?" I asked.
He patiently told me that it's what I plug my cords into. I'm not good with technology. Sigh. I took a photo of the back of my computer to show him.
He said I needed to buy a hub.
"But I have a hub." I informed him.
He said those were white ports on the hub and that I needed to get a hub with blue ports.
"What? Color matters?"
Hmmmm... I guess that's why my other external drive wasn't working on it.
So Ed ordered a hub with blue ports for me.
Sure enough, when the 8 TB external drives arrived, I saw that the plug thing was color coded blue.
And I saw that the front of my computer had black ports.
My Fitbit has a black plug.
Ahhh... a match!
My cellphone, however has a white plug.
So how many colors are there, for goodness sakes?!?
Apparently there are FOUR colors.
White 1.x
Black 2.x
Blue 3.x
Red or yellow
The white was introduced in 1996 and is a slower transfer speed.
The black was introduced in 2000 and supposed to be a faster speed.
The blue was introduced in 2008 and is called SuperSpeed.
The red or yellow indicates that the connector does not power off during sleep or standby mode.
I got this information from a blog called Geeks in Phoenix.
OK... So now there's more techie information to confuse me. I need to send some cookies (the baked kind) to Ed for his patience and expertise.
When my son-in-law, Ed advised me to back up my data (photo files I've been working on exhaustingly) on two external drives he asked me if I had additional blue USB ports on my computer for the drives. "What's a port?" I asked.
He patiently told me that it's what I plug my cords into. I'm not good with technology. Sigh. I took a photo of the back of my computer to show him.
"But I have a hub." I informed him.
He said those were white ports on the hub and that I needed to get a hub with blue ports.
"What? Color matters?"
Hmmmm... I guess that's why my other external drive wasn't working on it.
So Ed ordered a hub with blue ports for me.
Sure enough, when the 8 TB external drives arrived, I saw that the plug thing was color coded blue.
And I saw that the front of my computer had black ports.
My Fitbit has a black plug.
Ahhh... a match!
My cellphone, however has a white plug.
So how many colors are there, for goodness sakes?!?
Apparently there are FOUR colors.
White 1.x
Black 2.x
Blue 3.x
Red or yellow
The white was introduced in 1996 and is a slower transfer speed.
The black was introduced in 2000 and supposed to be a faster speed.
The blue was introduced in 2008 and is called SuperSpeed.
The red or yellow indicates that the connector does not power off during sleep or standby mode.
I got this information from a blog called Geeks in Phoenix.
OK... So now there's more techie information to confuse me. I need to send some cookies (the baked kind) to Ed for his patience and expertise.
I am just as confused as you are.
ReplyDeleteWHAT????
ReplyDeleteI think the geeks color code stuff to make themselves look really smart, and we older folks look really lost. Interesting tech history. Linda in Kansas
ReplyDeleteSay what??!!
ReplyDeleteWell thanks, but I am pretty confused now. :)
ReplyDeleteBetter thee than me.
ReplyDeletewow, we are getting too old to understand all this. then there are usb 2.0 and 3.0 ports...lol!
ReplyDeleteThanks for explaining this Kay I now notice a blue port on my laptop, a black one too
ReplyDeleteI see you are being tormented by that same spam I'm getting. I don't know why when I mark them as spam they keep coming back. Anyway, you made it crystal clear to me as to why my hubby is the one who needs to figure these things out, not me! :-)
ReplyDeleteWell, I had no idea of color of ports either. We don't have anything blue yet.
ReplyDeleteSome of this makes my head spin. Thanks for sharing the research.
ReplyDeleteWho knew?
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