CES 2026: OWC Launches 2-Meter Thunderbolt 5 Cable for Macs

Monday January 5, 2026 3:34 pm PST by Juli Clover

OWC today announced the launch of a fully certified 2-meter Thunderbolt 5 cable, which OWC says is the longest Thunderbolt 5 cable available for Macs and PCs.

owc thunderbolt 5 cable
The cable has been certified by Thunderbolt and independent testing labs, and it meets the full Thunderbolt 5 specification. It offers up to 80Gb/s bi-directional data performance, up to 120Gb/s video streaming performance for multiple displays, and 240W power delivery.

The 2-meter cable is priced at $80, and it joins OWC's other Thunderbolt 5 cables in 0.3m, 0.8m, and 1m lengths. It is available from the OWC website.

At CES, OWC is also debuting an 8TB Envoy Ultra Thunderbolt 5 SSD that supports transfer speeds of up to 6000MB/s, and a capacity expansion for the ThunderBlade X12 RAID SSD. It now supports up to 12 16TB SSDs for up to 192TB of storage, double the prior limit.

Tags: CES 2026, OWC

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Top Rated Comments

Hajj.david

2 weeks ago

This isn’t new? I have a 240w charging cable that’s ten feet long, but I’m not sure which version of ThunderButt it supports.

Apple Thunderbolt 4 cable (100W) $129:

<https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mw5j3am/a/thunderbolt-4-usb‑c-pro-cable-18-m ('https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mw5j3am/a/thunderbolt-4-usb%E2%80%91c-pro-cable-18-m')>

Literally didn't even read the first sentence of the article...

Score: 23 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Hajj.david

2 weeks ago

https://www.cablematters.com/pc-1640-193-intel-certified-80gbps-thunderbolt-5-cable-with-up-to-120gbps-bandwidth-boost-and-240w-charging.aspx
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Now we have people who can't/refuse to even read the titles. How is this not a bannable offense?

Score: 18 Votes (Like | Disagree)

dredlew

2 weeks ago

I'm not sure why anyone needs a 2 metre thunderbolt cable. Anyone want to jump in?

- To position your device further away, on the other side of desk
- Maybe your device has an annoying fan noise, and you want to put it into a desk drawer to minimize the noise
- Maybe you have a standup desk, but want the device sitting on the desk drawer. That way you can move the desk up and down while the device remains static.
- etc.

Score: 18 Votes (Like | Disagree)

jmonster

2 weeks ago

Like if somebody really needed 100gb/s

56kbps is all anyone needs

Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Hajj.david

2 weeks ago

This isn't some hard hitting article in The Atlantic, it's a typical puff piece from MacRumours. We don't need to read an article, skimming headlines is more than sufficient.

Your post strongly proves otherwise.

Meanwhile, Tim Cook is too greedy to put Thunderbolt 5 on iPhones and is still using very slow and very outdated USB 3 speeds (equivalent to very slow Thunderbolt 1 speeds ) on the iPhone 17 Pro, and extremely slow and extremely outdated USB 2 on the iPhone 17. See the thread in the link below for a detailed discussion on that topic:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/will-iphone-14-be-usb-2-0-probably-since-cook-is-mediocre.2341197/

I dont think there is a single phone on the market that supports Thunderbolt anything. Samsungs other flagships supports also USB 3 speeds. Thunderbolt requires extra power hungry components. Including PCI-E lanes, a processor with a thunderbolt chip etc.

I'm not sure why anyone needs a 2 metre thunderbolt cable. Anyone want to jump in?

Very helpful if you have servers in a rack. For extra security most of our servers arent even connected to the network, we internally connect using thunderbolt. In our case thunderbolt 4 is more than enough since we arent transferring a ton of data. But my buddy who is a film editor/ creator and also uses servers in a rack would love this.

Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)