Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
More than a few of us have accumulated massive collections of photographs and filled countless drives. I only sorted based on the current project and delivering what was promised. Now I am scraping every source for files and sorting by dates and keywords.
I have an M4 Max Studio Mac connected by
Corning Gas’s Thunderbolt cables to my 100 TB NAS in the much cooler garage some 30 ft away. In thr coming days I will share my setup and reasons for my choices.
Today I drilled many holes through the house structural 2x4 framing to accommodate Corning Thunderbolt optical cables, (1/8” thick shown as a pair traveling together and obviously more delicate than the two thick shielded ethernet 6A cables m.
A miniaturized magic laser generator, (hidden in the ordinary l-looking but slightly longer USB-C type male connector), magically converts the electric Thunderbolt 5 signal from the Mac or NAS to a series of light pulses.
This transmission is very reliable and not as limited by cable length as regular copper TB cables. This is 40 Gb/sec and two cables can be multiplexed to 80 Mb/sec.
However at nearly $400 per 45 ft length, I can only afford one such cable to my NAS and another a 10 bay SATA JBOD enclosure to feed in files, (from drives filled over the years), to make sure that my NAS has at least one copy of each file.
I have an M4 Max Studio Mac connected by
Corning Gas’s Thunderbolt cables to my 100 TB NAS in the much cooler garage some 30 ft away. In thr coming days I will share my setup and reasons for my choices.
Today I drilled many holes through the house structural 2x4 framing to accommodate Corning Thunderbolt optical cables, (1/8” thick shown as a pair traveling together and obviously more delicate than the two thick shielded ethernet 6A cables m.
A miniaturized magic laser generator, (hidden in the ordinary l-looking but slightly longer USB-C type male connector), magically converts the electric Thunderbolt 5 signal from the Mac or NAS to a series of light pulses.
This transmission is very reliable and not as limited by cable length as regular copper TB cables. This is 40 Gb/sec and two cables can be multiplexed to 80 Mb/sec.
However at nearly $400 per 45 ft length, I can only afford one such cable to my NAS and another a 10 bay SATA JBOD enclosure to feed in files, (from drives filled over the years), to make sure that my NAS has at least one copy of each file.