Review on 🔌 High-Speed Video Cable - CABLETIME Thunderbolt 40Gbps Compatible by Trevor French

Nicely packaged, it also includes 2 very nice cable ties with Velcro. It's a small gesture, but a good one. I needed a universal USB-C cable as my parents have iDevices and I'm more of the Windows/Linux type. TB4, USB 3.1 Gen2 (regardless of 10Gbps) and USB 4 support is great. Right now I'm using it to connect to a USB 3.1 Gen 2 Sabrent hard drive dock (no hardware raid, JOBD). I'm using Windows Storage Spaces and have a 2.5" 50GB cached SSD drive in front of two WD 14TB 7200rpm drives. Transfer speeds to my M.2 SSD remain around 500MB, which is better than my previous cable, which was more expensive and longer. This is the maximum speed of my storage, NOT the cable. Just buying a cable with 40 Gb/s does not automatically make data transfer that fast. Outside of a TB4 or external USB4 M.2 Gen 4 SSD or eGPU, there's always a bottleneck. There aren't many devices that can deliver this kind of transfer speed. So unless you're expecting 40Gbps (that would be 4GB, which is crazy. So at max speed you can transfer 100GB in about 25-30 seconds. At the same time, external SSDs (and internal) are still very expensive compared to rotating drives if you're going to get a few terabytes that these days you should ALWAYS use the shortest cable. It started with 4K HDR stuff but with these cables you're going to go as short as possible fast. It's hard to find one under 3 feet , and that fits the bill.I have a Samsung T7 USB-C drive on the go so I'm transferring data between my M.2 Gen4 Sabrent SSD and that would be a much better test as I get speeds around 1GB with large files should (people complain that SSD writes 15MB of data, but that's 30KB small files). That's how hard drives work, if you write small blocks of 4KB, it takes longer. You can format your drive, to use larger clusters, but then you're wasting disk space because the next step is 8 KB. This means that a 1 KB file takes up 8 KB, while on a 4 KB hard drive it takes up half the space. I'll do some testing and update my review after that, but as long as it's a great cable I think attention to detail is important. UPDATE: I received my Samsung T7. My computer is an Asrock Nuc with an 11th Gen Intel WhiskeyLake processor running the Windows 11 Beta Channel. Technically, all USB and USB-C ports are 3.1 Gen2, but Asrock expects USB 4 certification for all ports. However, the USB-C ports show up as TB4 and I had to install the Intel TB driver, so I guess Asrock just wanted to get rid of the license fees. When transferring 200GB of data from my internal m.2 gen 4 SSD to an external drive, it starts at over 1GB and then seems to level off at around 700MB (7Gbps), which isn't quite full USB 3.1 gen2 throughput (10Gbps). then tested some other USB C cables, some USB A to C and some C to C cables. Each cable tested started out the same, but then levels off at around 550MB, just over half the speed of the 3.1 gen2 spec. Now, disk caching is most likely to blame for extremely high initial speeds before they even out. I changed the disk policy from "quick erase" to "performance" then the screenshot showed caching issues going into device manager, expanding disks, selecting external SSD properties and then policies. (I have a UPS). As mentioned, you'll need an internal m.2 drive (preferably 4th gen), an external m.2 drive (preferably 4th gen), and a TB4 connector if you think buying this cable will give you the offers full bandwidth. Even so, a continuous write of 4GB, like a terabyte of data, is not going to happen no matter what non-corporate hardware you have.