USB 3.1 Type A vs 3.1 Type C flash drives, is there a speed difference (yet?)

natcha12

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Hi all,

So i have a new mb coming with 1 each of these new connectors, and one evening i was just interested to see what kind of products etc use them already.
Many flash drives i found had both 3.1 A and C connections, but ones with just USB 3.0 A from the same manufacturer had the same specified max transfer read/write speed.

Do each of them have the same speed at the moment, or do the flash drive descriptions have to give the max speed of the lowest speed port on them? I read that 3.1 C was 2x faster...

Bit of advice please :)
 

natcha12

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Damn. So if that's right nothing will seem faster unless there's an SSD on the other end of the C cable :(
Oh well, atleast i can forget about the power implications for external drives on it