Thunderbolt 3 ssd enclouser s

[Roxy.music]

What do you think of this one i like the idea of it being tool free.I orderd the tool free Sabrent Thunderbolt 3 enclouser some weeks ago and had to pay a lot more for it as i had to pay custums duty.I know see it is available in the UK 11 pound cheaper.There weren,t any views at the time i bought it because it was tool free and Sabrent s quality products.But i have just read reviews on Amazon that mention that you can,t pit a normal Thunderbolt cabal in it?I don,t understand why they did that as all there other drives you can put a normal Thunderbolt cabal in them.And Sabrent don,t sell the cabals for it?Has anyone bought it and what do they think of it?What Thunderbolt SSD encloser do you have?

 

[joevt]

Looks like it only has PCIe 3.0 x2 performance (1600 MB/s = 12.8 Gbps max is stated on the amazon page). Non-certified enclosures like the Trebleet I have support PCIe 3.0 x4 to allow max Thunderbolt 3 PCIe bandwidth of ~22 Gbps.

 

[Roxy.music]

Looks like it only has PCIe 3.0 x2 performance (1600 MB/s = 12.8 Gbps max is stated on the amazon page). Non-certified enclosures like the Trebleet I have support PCIe 3.0 x4 to allow max Thunderbolt 3 PCIe bandwidth of ~22 Gbps.
The USB port is recessed and has two notches that prevent us from using any standard TB3 cable.. Just look closer at the pictures. From a Amazon reviewer
It also doesn't appear that they sell replacement cables that are compatible with this.
So what happens when I lose my cable or it breaks?
Buy a new enclosure? Modify my existing cables just to fit their completely non-standard port?
I don,t know what Sabrent were thinkng about
I was thinking about the Treblee it is a lot more expensive.

That is something else i noticed when reading the reviews the other day.I thought Thunderbolt3 was 40gb not 20gb as they say it is. ?

 

[joevt]

That is something else i noticed when reading the reviews the other day.I thought Thunderbolt3 was 40gb not 20gb as they say it is. ?

Thunderbolt 3 can be up to ~22 Gbps for PCIe data, whatever is not used by DisplayPort. You can connect zero, one, or two displays to Thunderbolt. The more displays and higher the resolution and pixel depth, the less bandwidth is available for PCIe. A single 4K display has little impact (since there's ~18 Gbps of bandwidth that can't be used by PCIe). Two 4K displays has more impact. A 5K display is less bandwidth than two 4K displays. A 6K display is more bandwidth than two 4K displays (if you're using a GPU that doesn't support DSC).