Cable Matters [Certificado Intel] Cabo Thunderbolt 4 de 40 Gbps com vídeo 8K e carregamento de 240 W – 0,3 m, compatível com USB4, cabo Thunderbolt 3 e USB-C

I bought this cable in the high hope that it would fit into my Samsung T7 Shield 4TB SSD. Now, please bear in mind – I’ve previously had bad luck, with many cables, including from many different brands – it seems to be a quality control issue on Samsung’s end. Many – most – cables are very loose, don’t fit properly and hence disconnect very easily, which is terrible for the SSD. I have only ever found one single cable that is suitable.My test for whether it “fits” is to plug the SSD into the cable, hold it up, hold it there still for 15 seconds or so, let it hang there on its own weight, and give it a shake around… along with just generally using it, moving my laptop around while it’s plugged in, et cetera. This cable failed the test – before I’d even started testing it. I plugged it in, and it instantly just fell out, disconnecting without me ejecting the drive, hence risking the drive formatting itself or me losing all of my data (that’s how loose it fits – Macbook Air M2 to Samsung T7 Shield).Now, the strange thing is that I ordered this exact cable but braided, in both the 1 metre and 50cm length. The 1m length fits well – which is a godsend. But naturally, that is way too long for me to simply plug in my SSD. Frustratingly, and expensively, the 50cm – the braided version, I mean – for god knows what reason – is as loose as anything and is unusable with the SSD.So that is the caveat. Great cable, but beware – if your SSD/HDD is like mine, this may be a bad choice. I’m writing this in the hope that it warns someone with similar issues.However, I bought this cable knowing that a) it is not braided and seemingly a different model, albeit from the same brand, and I hence thought I had a good chance it would fit well, and b) there were zero complaints in the comments about this specific cable being loose (or anything like that). Sure enough, it arrived, and it’s too loose. So I will either keep it for other products and uses (e.g. charging my phone with a power bank – it fits perfectly into all other ports, Macbook Air, various power banks from UGREEN and Anker, various adapters etc).So yes, 5 out of 5 stars from me, with the caveat being that I can’t use it for the purpose that I bought it for. I’ll either keep it, as I said, or I’ll return it. It isn’t a big deal. Importantly – the quality of the cable is palpable and the length is perfect for the reason/s stated (e.g. plugging in a HDD/SSD). It transfers data very quickly and charges very fast.But yes, if the metal adapter was just the tiniest smidgen longer, it would fit perfectly. But I do truly think that’s a fault on Samsung’s end, as the problem extends beyond Cable Matters to other brands, including famous and expensive ones (I won’t name any, but I’ve tried at least five of the “big” brands) – and people online have complained about the same issue, with the T7 Shield, others say they have no issues at all.In hindsight… going for the T9 would’ve been insane, purely to avoid this issue. The T5 was too slow for my needs. So I’d have to ditch Samsung, etc, and I just had no idea that a $500 AUD SSD would have this issue. Such a shame.

Day to day use it is a great and working cable ;Likely not as impressive in X-ray as the Apple model but also far cheaper price: will buy their tb5 or 6 too once I have devices that can use 5.