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it takes a lot to get me excited about a cable in the entire history of Linus

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tech tips we're talking over 2500 videos here i have only made a dedicated video

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about a cable nine times so when i say

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this is the coolest cable that i've ever seen

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i hope that makes you want to stick around and learn more about it

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Corsair gaming RGB keyboards feature precision cherry mx RGB key switches for

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16.8 million color per key backlighting for virtually unlimited customization

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click now to learn more so the first time i was introduced to corning's usb

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3.0 optical cables note that the box does not say usb 3.0 they can't call it

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usb 3.0 since there's no actual standard for a fiber optic usb 3 cable very

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clever coin anyway the first time i saw them was at ces this year and for some

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reason i was the only one freaking out about it maybe it's because they're

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ludicrously expensive i paid 300 for

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this one so i could do this video because i don't know anyone at corning

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but in spite of that i just can't help but geek out about them building this

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thing without repeaters and without signal boosters this cable can carry a

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signal 10 times the recommended length

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for usb 3.0 and thanks to their clear

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curve vsdn and optical fiber it does so while being slimmer and much more

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durable than a standard copper cable in fact it's so durable that at that booth

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i was talking about they basically had a try to break the cable challenge where

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you could put their zero bend radius to the test so let's show it off then shall

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we see this computer right here got a monitor running keyboard mouse uh here's

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a usb drive that i can plug into this usb3 hub next to it and transfer some

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data off of it and hold up now just wait a second

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where is the actual computer at

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well let's go find it shall we

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so following this optical cable we actually discovered that the computer

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is a full hundred feet or 30 meters away

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in the back alley behind the house now i

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decided to cheap out and i went for a usb 3 one versus a Thunderbolt one and

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we're using a usb 3 hub versus a more

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expensive Thunderbolt hub but if you were willing to and had enough money to

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afford the Thunderbolt 60 meter cable

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and that dock i showed you before you could feasibly have your display and

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peripherals and entire house away from

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the actual computer if you wanted to for

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some reason now some of you are undoubtedly watching

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this going why the devil would i want a 30 meter

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usb cable there are probably a dozen more practical ways to do anything that

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you've talked about here and on top of that my case has front usb 3 so like

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a meter is bots for me to which i would respond yeah this kind of thing isn't

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going to be practical for most people this is more of a think of the

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possibilities type of episode no pc can be more silent than one that's

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not in the same room right higher speed longer distance data

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transfer is good for everyone and seeing optical cables get one step closer to

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mainstream allowing us to do crazy stuff like this

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ah i just i geek out over this stuff i mean they're not perfect yet the manual

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says to only use self-powered devices so that's anything that's powered from the

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wall and if you plug in a bus powered device like a usb drive or a wi-fi

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adapter directly it results in either intermittent connectivity or power

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errors but given that there isn't even a standard

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for converting usb 3 to optical like this it still makes my jaw drop to see

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this black magic disk speed test saturating the usb 3 bus on an SSD

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that's literally a hundred feet away in the back alley

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so thanks for watching guys like this video if you liked it dislike it if you

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disliked it leave a comment and let me know can you think of anything that we

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didn't come up with for what you would do with a super long usb 3 cable or

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Thunderbolt cable guys check out the link in the video description to support us you can buy a

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cool t-shirt like this one give us a monthly contribution or change your amazon bookmark to one with our

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affiliate code so whenever you buy really really long cables we get a small

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kickback and i think that's pretty much it thanks for watching oh and if anyone

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from corning is watching you know we'd love to show off the 60

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60 meter Thunderbolt cable you know if you wanted to send one of those to us

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shameless request for

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a cable anyway i think that's pretty much it guys thanks for watching and as

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