Indeed, if you have a short Thunderbolt cable supplied with hardware, that may be a passive cable rather than an active one. Active cables can run a lot longer, but due to their construction, they ...

Thunderbolt 3 runs longer than 18-inches can be passive or active. The passive ones have lower speed, with the max data rate hitting about 20Gbit/second at two meters of cable length.

The answer to that question is yes…and no. That’s because it all depends on the type of cables that you’re using. There are two basic types of Thunderbolt 3 cables: active, and passive ...

(The passive/active difference could also cause significant confusion if you connected two USB 3.x devices with a Thunderbolt 3 cable. A passive Thunderbolt 3 cable supported USB 3.1 at up to 10 Gbps, ...

The Thunderbolt 3 cable is active, rather than passive. Instead of carrying up to 5 Gbps of USB 3.1 Gen 1 data, these active Thunderbolt cables throttle down to USB 2.0 speeds, offering about ...

The first Thunderbolt compatible peripherals—Promise's Pegasus RAIDs—started shipping on Tuesday. Using the RAIDs with a Thunderbolt equipped Mac, though, requires a rather expensive $50 cable ...

Compared to passive and active copper Thunderbolt 3 cables that support relatively short lengths most appropriate for a desktop setting, optical cables allow for much longer cable lengths needed ...

With a recent tear-down by ArsTechnica on the new Thunderbolt cable Apple is selling for $50, we're starting to wonder if active cabling is the future of all A/V electronics. With a desire by content ...

Apple has quietly started selling its 2-meter Thunderbolt 3 cable priced at $129, offering a braided design and active cable technology that supports full Thunderbolt 3 data transfer speeds of up ...

You don't need Thunderbolt 4 with the short passive length or the limitations of an active cable. You may need more than USB 3.2. These could have just one bidirectional high speed lane, which ...

Apple has started selling a high-end certified 40 Gbps Thunderbolt cable that’s either a real bargain or ridiculously expensive, depending on your point of view. The braided $129 Thunderbolt 3 ...