{"id":375,"date":"2021-05-08T21:59:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T21:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.valleau.art\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2021-05-08T21:59:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T21:59:37","slug":"are-better-cables-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/are-better-cables-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Are better cables better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK: take this FWIW:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lindy 1m USB 3.0 Cable - Type A Male to B Male, Black (31461)\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_Tk9gbwkZoMgbSm&#038;asin=B004V74APY&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been my experience that better data cables are worth the extra cost, up to the point where some sleaze tries to sell you solid silver USB cables &#8220;for audio&#8221; for $125.<\/p>\n<p>I do know that &#8220;real&#8221; CAT 6 ethernet cables are more reliable than the generic (and some not so generic) brands merely marked as CAT 6. (No: there is no regulator body. Yes, there is a spec for CAT 6, but that doesn&#8217;t mean a cable stamped as such meets it.)<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.bluejeanscable.com\/articles\/is-your-cat6-a-dog.htm<\/p>\n<p>And AFAIK, it&#8217;s ditto for USB cables as well.<\/p>\n<p>You can pretty much be sure that the USB 3 cable that came with your Acme RocketSpeed Doohickey Drive was sourced from the Chinese factory with the lowest bid.<\/p>\n<p>However, and strictly anecdotally, when I replaced some critical USB 3 cables with the Lindy ones, things just seemed to be more reliable. Since doing that, I&#8217;ve not had any hubs suddenly drop offline, or drives magically dismount in the middle of a backup.<\/p>\n<p>Does that mean that the Lindy is a better cable, or that my old cable was faulty, and any new one would have worked?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfQuien sabe?<\/p>\n<p>Lindy makes &#8220;enterprise&#8221; products, here in the USA. A typical cable costs $12, not $2.<\/p>\n<p>Is it worth it? Maybe not to you, but I&#8217;m now a repeat customer, so it obviously is to me.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.lindy-usa.com\/<\/p>\n<p>hth<\/p>\n<p>Tracy<br \/>www.valleau.gallery<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK: take this FWIW: It&#8217;s been my experience that better data cables are worth the extra cost, up to the point where some sleaze tries to sell you solid silver USB cables &#8220;for audio&#8221; for $125. I do know that &#8220;real&#8221; CAT 6 ethernet cables are more reliable than the generic (and some not so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}