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The bends don't look that bad. Also what if the cables are designed to handle that bend? Do you know for sure they don't?

I'm sure you might be right but it unless I'm missing something I'm not sure any of your points can be entirely proven until you know who sources the parts and what extreme(s) they can handle, no?

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The bend radius of a cable is all but universally at least 5-10 times the width of a cable. It's pretty safe to say that a bend radius of one, like this enclosure has, is out of spec.

Yes, it is icky, a bit scary the first time you put it together, but it works and doesn't break or cause issues.

Considering the cables are made by the same company as the box itself (WDLabs) and that we've sold almost 1000 boxes and haven't had a single person tell us the cables were problematic and considering I've personally put together a dozen boxes and taken them apart and together again many times and still encountered no issues I think I can safely say: it is just fine.

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