Not all USB cables are created equal -- some can't even transfer data. A lot of the ones stashed in your drawer might only be for charging. How can you tell?

I have an external USB drive formatted for Mac OS X with 200 GB of data that I need to transfer to a Windows machine.

All of Apple's iPhone 15 models come with a USB-C port instead of Lightning, but not all devices in the lineup offer the same port data transfer speed. The ‌iPhone 15‌ switch to USB-C brings several ...

Not all USB cables are created equal -- some can't even transfer data. A lot of the ones stashed in your drawer might only be for charging. How can you tell?