“Is the data/power cable connecting to the drive standard micro USB or proprietary to Western Digital?”

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• No. The included USB 3.0 A-Male-to-Micro-B-Male is standard to most USB 3.0 hard drives, some phones, etc. You can easily buy replacement versions separately of different lengths and from different brands. I would just avoid this particular model drive, however. It's failure-prone. Choose a My Passport instead, or others.

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  Answered by Radioguy 8 years ago

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• It is not standard micro-USB.

  Answered by CrossfireHurricane 8 years ago

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• I’ve used it with both and it works fine

  Answered by Andy 8 years ago

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• The connecting cable is a standard USB 3.0 cable.

  Answered by ErieReviewer 8 years ago

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• It's a standard USB 3.0 Cable (A-Male to Micro-B). I have this Western Digital drive and two Toshiba drives of varying sizes and they all use the exact same cable.

  Answered by Chiba 8 years ago

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• This hard drive uses the standard USB 3.0 cable connection not a micro USB connector.

  Answered by appleguest 8 years ago

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