Comment by jasomill
4 years ago
Worse, there are no "best" cables longer than 0.5m: any longer than that, Thunderbolt 3 requires active cables which don't pass non-Thunderbolt data beyond, IIRC, 480 Mbps.
As someone who spent many years using a mix of 25/50/68/80-pin fast/ultra/… single-ended, LVD and HVD parallel SCSI devices, however, USB-C/Thunderbolt cabling still feels like a breath of fresh air.
I think Thunderbolt 4 active cables are supposed to pass higher USB 3 speeds? At least the Apple Thunderbolt 4 cable claims to do so:
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MN713AM/A/thunderbolt-4-p...