killroy

welshdog said:

killroy said:

jdw said:

fastasleep said:

dutchlord said:

$159 for a cable right? #byebye

Active Thunderbolt cables are expensive, this isn't news. This is also the only option available if you need this length and power/data.

Length/power/datarate/value aside, what is a practical use-case for this TB4 cable right now?

A raid that's not on your desktop.

Right, like a RAID in a sound cabinet because it's too noisy to be in the room.

jdw said:

fastasleep said:

dutchlord said:

$159 for a cable right? #byebye

Active Thunderbolt cables are expensive, this isn't news. This is also the only option available if you need this length and power/data.

Length/power/datarate/value aside, what is a practical use-case for this TB4 cable right now?

MplsP said:

melgross said:

People have gotten so used to cheap cables that last 15 years, or so, that they’ve forgotten just how expensive they used to be. My last Adaptec SCSI cable cost $168 a long time ago. In today’s dollars it would be almost twice that. And we didn’t complain because we knew that’s what they would cost.

people today complain about everything.

True, most people don’t realize all that’s in the cable. Of course there’s this 1m HDMI cable at best buy for $400 that they try to claim will improve the quality of the digital error-corrected signal….

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/audioquest-vodka-34-4k-ultra-hd-hdmi-cable-black-blue/1267691.p?skuId=1267691

keithw said:

killroy said:

I wonder if a PRAM reset would fix it.

It did not. After the NVRAM reset, a new run of GB5 gave 139955.  That's 87% of what it was under 12.2.1.