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Is it time for Thunderbolt 5 storage? A first look at the fast (but raw) new spec

Summary by technewstube.com
Though it was a bit rough around the edges in terms of backwards compatibility, my first look at 80Gbps Thunderbolt 5 storage reveals a very nice uptick in performance - about twice the 40Gbps of Thunderbolt 3/USB 4 in certain benchmarks. Logical. By way of comparison, that's roughly as fast as an NVMe SSD on the PCIe 4.0 bus. And a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD is exactly what's inside the OWC Envoy Ultra portable drive I used to test Thunderbolt 5 storage…
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