Corning Thunderbolt Optical Cable 10m (33ft) for Self-Powered Peripherals AOC-MMS4CVP010M20

I bought this a little over a year ago. I used it to connect from my office, through the wall to a set of daisy-chained Thunderbolt RAIDs in a server rack.This product worked great for ~15 months with no issues, regular fast file transfers. It remained in the same cable path and had no wear and tear applied to it other than data transfers. However yesterday, the cable just failed with no warning and now I'm left without a connection to my RAID arrays. I've tested it with other drives and it no longer works in any configuration.I would expect more longevity from this expensive cable.

This has worked great to increase the distance from the thunderbolt server to the video editing station. Very lightweight and thin to snake through cramped spaces. The only issue is if you have video editors who don't take care of the fragile fiber optic cable and treat it as if it were a throw away USB cord.Connected via daisy chained Mac editing stations using TCP/IP over thunderbolt to an Areca ARC-8050T2. Beats a CAT5 gigabit connection to a NAS and all the software nightmares that comes with sharing projects with multiple users over a NAS.

They only last a few years before they fry (at least in my case) but they work great!

These seem to start having thermal issues as they age. I'm not sure what happens exactly, but it might be something gets hot and then out of alignment with the cable. I think I have purchased over 4 of these so far, and sometimes after sitting in storage for a month, I'll hook a dead one back up and it will work fine.Lately the biggest issue is frequent faulures when used with the Apple Thunderbolt2-3 adatper. The combo together seem to get hot fast, and then they fail. Sometimes disconnecting and reconnecting will make them work for 5 more minutes, then they'll disconnect again. Frustrating.Guess it's time to switch from a TB3 RAID DAS to an iSCSI SAN.

Very thin. It works well once in place but so thin that during set up I was scared it's going to break.

Then they fail. I bought two, the first doesn't work at all, with the second connected hard drives start experiencing random disconnects. Worked fine for the first year or so, then kaput.Bad manufacturing batch? But I bought the two a year apart. Or bad design? It would be beautiful if they had a working solution, but don't be like me and spend near $500 for these cables that eventually break.

Great product, exactly as described. Put it immediately into action and haven't had a problem.

I'm using this for an array of SSDs which are in a fairly noisy enclosure. This lets me put the RAID in my closet, 30 feet away from the computer.Before anything else, I tested and benchmarks were identical with this, compared to the 1 meter Thunderbolt cable that came with the RAID enclosure. If there is any performance drop, it's smaller than the few megabytes per second difference I get between successive runs of the benchmark on identical configurations.The cable really does allow tight turns without any sense of fragility. It arrives coiled fairly tightly, and you're not likely to route the cable at a tighter radius in normal use. Still, given the price of the cable you might use extra caution. With that (and my cable-munching cat) in mind, I ran it with some network cables and used zip ties to contain the whole set in some loom tubing. You can find small diameter tubing at a small fraction of the price of this cable. The extra security is worth it, IMHO.Note that this does require a self-powered Thunderbolt device on both ends. Both ends contain an optical transceiver that needs power. That said, even in power saving mode Thunderbolt devices should power the cable. So you shouldn't have issues with waking peripherals from sleep or similar.Edit: I'm now using this with a Retina iMac and Thunderbolt 2. It is indeed a Thunderbolt 2 capable cable, with sustained speeds of about 15 gigabits. A traditional copper cable doesn't do any better with my SSD RAID array.