My computer at work has the USB ports on the front of the tower, right in the way to be bumped by my chair any time I get up. Before I got the job, two separate flash drives were bent by the "rolling chair"--one of them has the only copy of the department's web site on it. I feared being the one to totally destroy the drive. This extension cable has been the answer to my fears! I can now plug my flash drive in on my desk, and no longer worry about bumping into it.