m4 mac mini drops connection to storage dock

Orico MiniLink M47P with 1TB and 2TB NVME SSD installed.

I bought this 40gbps 7 port storage Dock from Aliexpress. Except for one problem, I am overall very satisfied with this product. The 40gbps interface gives me a very fast access to the NVME SSD drives in the storage dock.

Here is the one exception: using the supplied cable to connect the dock to my M4 MacMini, the storage connection keeps dropping the link. Not wanting to go through a lengthy return process with Aliexpress, I experimented to see if there was a serious hardware problem or if it could be fixed somehow.

First of all, the cables I tested with are all 40gbps certified with some Thunderbolt4 certified.

Here is what I found, the only cables that I found worked, meaning it did not drop the connection after a day or so, are those of length 0.5m or greater. This means the very short (supplied) cable and any cable shorter than 0.5m would eventually drop the connection, some within a few minutes.

So now I have to use a cable that sticks out from from the back (I know, 1st world problem).

Just curious to see if anybody else has the same problem or if you know what the heck is happening.