Customer Reviews & Ratings for USB-C to USB Adapter

Comments about the annoyance of adapters aside, this has so far functioned just fine in various usage tests, including a USB 3.0 hard drive and connecting a MIDI keyboard over USB.

I did speed tests and found my USB 3.0 drive got about the same read/write speeds (100-160 MB/s) on my Mac mini connected through 1) just this adapter into a USB-C port; 2) a direct connection to my Mac mini's USB-3 Type-A (old type) port; and 3) a connection through an Anker USB-A hub (from one of the USB-A ports). The Anker hub actually had the best speeds somehow, and this adapter did have the worst speeds (around 100-120 MB/s), but it's still faster than USB 2.0.

13 of 15 people found this useful

Bought it to use my WASD (wired) mechanical keyboard with my 2017 MBP (which has no USB A port) when coding at home. Works like a champ. Quite frankly, I haven't tested a USB 3 flash drive with it although I've seen lots of people claiming this Apple USB-C to USB Adapter doesn't play well with USB 3 flash drives. My go-to external storage for the MBP is a portable Glyph Atom RAID SSD which connects directly to a USB-C port. Not as tiny as a flash drive but still very small, 2TB of storage and transfer rates exceeding 800 MB/s which is very handy when coding/testing.

5 of 5 people found this useful

Some have complained of an excessively tight fit. It certainly isn't loose, but I've had no trouble with mine. Worked fine with the flash drives and memory cards I've used with it. Seems well made. Only had a couple of weeks, but I'm quite happy with it.

16 of 19 people found this useful

I use it to charge my Apple Watch, whose charging wire comes as USB by default. Works well with no issue. Looks sturdy.

20 of 23 people found this useful