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Any compliant USB-C cable must support USB 2.0 no matter what. If a USB-C cable isn't working with 2.0 data, then it's a noncompliant cable.

Good luck explaining to your uncle that his USB-C is non-compliant. He just knows that with USB-C you can't even trust the cables anymore.

I’ll take that hypothetical problem over what we had in the past. A dozen different plugs, a dozen different cables, multiple required docks, incompatible charging bricks, proprietary plugs, and more.

I have yet to come across an issue with USB-C either personally or externally. But maybe some day it will happen. And I still won’t care because it’s better than it used to be.

hypothetical problem

No, just another day in IT. I'm hoping they get their crap together eventually.

At this point, I would assume that any user that buys a hard drive (vs using “the cloud”) is advanced enough to figure it out.