Comment by mitthrowaway2 2 years ago There should be a colour banding system, like resistors use. 3 comments mitthrowaway2 Reply extraduder_ire 2 years ago Something like that was tried with usb 1.1, 2, and 3, being white/black/blue. But many manufacturers got very loosey-goosey with it.I'm sure it'd be worse as soon as a common spec for this popped up for USB-C. NikolaNovak 2 years ago Yeah, that was actually quite helpful (when properly implemented). Especially in era of laptops that had a mixture, you knew to plug in the portable drive into blue not the black USB port (and put your phone to charge into yellow one:). extraduder_ire 2 years ago Yellow (always supplies power) was non standard, as was green. Would have been nice if that was included in an addendum to the USB spec though.
extraduder_ire 2 years ago Something like that was tried with usb 1.1, 2, and 3, being white/black/blue. But many manufacturers got very loosey-goosey with it.I'm sure it'd be worse as soon as a common spec for this popped up for USB-C. NikolaNovak 2 years ago Yeah, that was actually quite helpful (when properly implemented). Especially in era of laptops that had a mixture, you knew to plug in the portable drive into blue not the black USB port (and put your phone to charge into yellow one:). extraduder_ire 2 years ago Yellow (always supplies power) was non standard, as was green. Would have been nice if that was included in an addendum to the USB spec though.
NikolaNovak 2 years ago Yeah, that was actually quite helpful (when properly implemented). Especially in era of laptops that had a mixture, you knew to plug in the portable drive into blue not the black USB port (and put your phone to charge into yellow one:). extraduder_ire 2 years ago Yellow (always supplies power) was non standard, as was green. Would have been nice if that was included in an addendum to the USB spec though.
extraduder_ire 2 years ago Yellow (always supplies power) was non standard, as was green. Would have been nice if that was included in an addendum to the USB spec though.
Something like that was tried with usb 1.1, 2, and 3, being white/black/blue. But many manufacturers got very loosey-goosey with it.
I'm sure it'd be worse as soon as a common spec for this popped up for USB-C.
Yeah, that was actually quite helpful (when properly implemented). Especially in era of laptops that had a mixture, you knew to plug in the portable drive into blue not the black USB port (and put your phone to charge into yellow one:).
Yellow (always supplies power) was non standard, as was green. Would have been nice if that was included in an addendum to the USB spec though.