Review on 🌩️ Certified Thunderbolt Supporting Industrial Electrical by Cable Matters by Pavel Craig

Cost of active cables but unfortunately not my use case. Tried using this in a daisy chain setup where no device could be shown correctly after the first. Apple Thunderbolt Display, OWC TB3 Dock or Akitio Thunderquad external SSD/HD array could not be detected when connected to the first device. The return to a short 40Gbps passive cable or a longer active cable allowed for up to 6 levels of daisy chaining as promised. So I'd be wary of buying one of these to make sure you don't need a device pass at some point. Find out about the differences between the Thunderbolt and USB standards, as it's a bit wild west, especially on Revain, where cables are something that confuses those not privy to donglehell issues. Here's the TLDR: USB Type-C cables share the same basic shape, but use different communication standards depending on how they're wired and/or chipped. can be found at a gas station as most even the cheapest have at least USB 2.0. 1.5 Mbps. So slow that it can really only be used for something like a keyboard or mouse (faster than the old PS2 connector that looks like a video). USB 1.1 - same as above but 12Mbps. or computers follow this standard. 480Mbps. Note that these are bits and not bytes (a bit is 1/8th of a byte), so the baud rate is misleading. Even the Apple cable that comes with modern MacBooks is limited to this data rate. Fast enough for something like an audio interface without too many input channels. USB 3.0 – Usually USB Type A (the rectangular one you're used to) that has 3.0 colored blue on the inside of the connector to indicate it's 3.0. This standard is quite a bit faster than 2.0 and probably the most widely used in 2020 as well. Currently, 5 Gb/s is enough to use a USB hub that allows multiple I/O operations at the same time. Fast enough for HD video, but not fast enough for real-time 4k. USB 3.1 Gen 1 - Capable of transferring more power (100W) over the cable and has the same transfer rate as USB 3.0, but is not backward compatible with USB 2.0 and earlier. Data transfer rate 5 Gbit/s. USB 3.1 Gen 2, also known as Superspeed, has twice the bandwidth of Gen 1, is not backwards compatible in terms of cabling and has the same power limit. So 10 Gbps is the same as the original Thunderbolt standard in terms of bandwidth. Please note that if you purchase a Type-C cable with a USB 3.1 Gen 1 or Gen 2 connector, it will not work with many USB Type-C devices such as the Logitech mx mouse or Bulk Alt keyboard , since they use the USB 2.0 standard for data transfer. and power supply via Type-C cable. Thunderbolt 1 - 10 Gb/s, this was transmitted via Mini DisplayPort cables. It seems like Thunderbolt cables were the same, but the hardware of the computers or devices that decoded things was either TB1 or TB2, so you probably can't find a Type-C cable that is Thunderbolt 1. Thunderbolt 2 is the fastest mini display. Thunderbolt cable connection is available. At 20Gbps, it's still faster than today's fastest USB connections. Enough to daisy chain 6 devices and enough for 4K live video. However, on type c, to my chagrin, it doesn't support serial connection. The passive Thunderbolt 3 are the small cables that come with many docking stations and whatnot. 100W of power with maximum backwards compatibility. However, they still do not work with USB 2.0 and below. Thunderbolt 3 Active – These cables sacrifice backwards compatibility with some USB standards to use some juice to boost the signal and create longer cables that can still run at 40Gb/s. If you buy an LG TB3 monitor or Apple's XDR display, you'll get one of those with the longest runtime at 2 meters, or about 6.6 feet. They seem to start at $60 and go up in price to around $100. Apple doesn't even sell it, although there's a good one with the XDR monitor. Optical Thunderbolt 3 is the same as above, but it uses a computer chip and fiber optics for really good long runs at full 40Gbps speed. long runs. They also cost $400 and up. In addition, cables can have different power supply standards as well as different D/A converters when talking through USB Type-C headphone jack. Never mind buying and returning cables like this, which have limitations that even good research fails to reveal. Much luck.