it takes a lot to get me excited about a cable in the entire history of Linus
tech tips we're talking over 2500 videos here i have only made a dedicated video
about a cable nine times so when i say
this is the coolest cable that i've ever seen
i hope that makes you want to stick around and learn more about it
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click now to learn more so the first time i was introduced to corning's usb
3.0 optical cables note that the box does not say usb 3.0 they can't call it
usb 3.0 since there's no actual standard for a fiber optic usb 3 cable very
clever coin anyway the first time i saw them was at ces this year and for some
reason i was the only one freaking out about it maybe it's because they're
ludicrously expensive i paid 300 for
this one so i could do this video because i don't know anyone at corning
but in spite of that i just can't help but geek out about them building this
thing without repeaters and without signal boosters this cable can carry a
signal 10 times the recommended length
for usb 3.0 and thanks to their clear
curve vsdn and optical fiber it does so while being slimmer and much more
durable than a standard copper cable in fact it's so durable that at that booth
i was talking about they basically had a try to break the cable challenge where
you could put their zero bend radius to the test so let's show it off then shall
we see this computer right here got a monitor running keyboard mouse uh here's
a usb drive that i can plug into this usb3 hub next to it and transfer some
data off of it and hold up now just wait a second
where is the actual computer at
well let's go find it shall we
so following this optical cable we actually discovered that the computer
is a full hundred feet or 30 meters away
in the back alley behind the house now i
decided to cheap out and i went for a usb 3 one versus a Thunderbolt one and
we're using a usb 3 hub versus a more
expensive Thunderbolt hub but if you were willing to and had enough money to
afford the Thunderbolt 60 meter cable
and that dock i showed you before you could feasibly have your display and
peripherals and entire house away from
the actual computer if you wanted to for
some reason now some of you are undoubtedly watching
this going why the devil would i want a 30 meter
usb cable there are probably a dozen more practical ways to do anything that
you've talked about here and on top of that my case has front usb 3 so like
a meter is bots for me to which i would respond yeah this kind of thing isn't
going to be practical for most people this is more of a think of the
possibilities type of episode no pc can be more silent than one that's
not in the same room right higher speed longer distance data
transfer is good for everyone and seeing optical cables get one step closer to
mainstream allowing us to do crazy stuff like this
ah i just i geek out over this stuff i mean they're not perfect yet the manual
says to only use self-powered devices so that's anything that's powered from the
wall and if you plug in a bus powered device like a usb drive or a wi-fi
adapter directly it results in either intermittent connectivity or power
errors but given that there isn't even a standard
for converting usb 3 to optical like this it still makes my jaw drop to see
this black magic disk speed test saturating the usb 3 bus on an SSD
that's literally a hundred feet away in the back alley
so thanks for watching guys like this video if you liked it dislike it if you
disliked it leave a comment and let me know can you think of anything that we
didn't come up with for what you would do with a super long usb 3 cable or
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from corning is watching you know we'd love to show off the 60
60 meter Thunderbolt cable you know if you wanted to send one of those to us
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