I will never again use a cable lock. 2 years ago I had a crappy $80 discount store bike chained outside my apartment for 1 day with a very solid cable lock. It was gone the next morning. Cable was still there, cut like it was nothing. My other, nicer bike U-locked to the same bike rack was never touched in 2.5 years of being locked there 24/7 (except when being ridden of course).