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Re:Upgrade Raspberry Pi 4 with a NVMe boot drive by dheera on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @01:49PM (#25201581)
> but this really shouldn't happen with any halfway decent cables or hardware

Well, the best brand cables jiggle around. I'm talking Pi's, Macbooks, Pixel phones, you name it, they all jiggle around.

I've had RealSense cameras, StarTech USB hubs fail because of cable jiggling around in the port, and had to make 3D printed add-ons to grip the housing and prevent cable jiggling.

I've personally had WAY more problems with USB that SCSI cables, honestly. Also I break an average of about 1 USB cable a week; SCSI, DB25, DB9, DB15, BNC, and those cables never break.

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Re:Upgrade Raspberry Pi 4 with a NVMe boot drive by justin66 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @04:21PM (#25203126)
BNC has always been trouble-free for you? That's interesting.

I think the only cable type that was entirely trouble-free for me over the years was the parallel printer cable with the truly awful Centronics connector. I don't remember ever throwing one of those away. Of course, that's not a cable that you'd plug and unplug much, which certainly helps.

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