Re:Don't Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables
by booty on Friday September 11, 2026 @02:06PM
(#49662682)
Wow... have you found cheap cables that are able to display video despite not being advertised as such?
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Don't Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables
by alias_neo on Friday September 11, 2026 @03:46PM
(#49664321)
Generally no, you're far more likely to get something that DOESN'T do what's asvertised in my experience.
You can almost always tell the second it's in your hand; in order to do the high throughput stuff, 20Gb, 40Gb etc, the wire is much thicker and stiffer, it needs conductors for all of those contacts. Ive never counted but it's something like 20 of them vs 4 in a standard cable.
Of course always C to C; the A connectors with the extra contacts in between the normal USB 2 ones still aren't enough.