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  • digiguy - Tuesday, November 22, 2016 - link

    Ok this goes from 5 Gb/s of USB 3.1 Gen 1 (=3.0) to SATA 3 (6 Gb/s). When are we going to see external PCIe SSD that can saturate Gen 2 bandwidth?
  • joelypolly - Wednesday, November 23, 2016 - link

    Probably you'd have to wait for thunderbolt 3 versions unless someone does a PCIe to USB3.1 which is unlikely
  • digiguy - Wednesday, November 23, 2016 - link

    why unlikely? some small PCIe SSDs cannot even saturate the 10 Gb/s bandwidth (around 900 MB actual speed). But yes why not a TB3 pen drive or at least some sort of M.2 enclosure with a PCIe to TB3 bridge. My guess is that for now it's too expensive to take the risk of manufacturing it, but sooner or later it will come....
  • bill44 - Wednesday, November 23, 2016 - link

    Totaly agree. We need PCIe 3.0 4x lane to USB 3.1 Gen 2 bridge chip.
    As for TB3, see my reply above.
  • bill44 - Wednesday, November 23, 2016 - link

    I've been asking the same question for a long time.

    Also, why can't we get an TB3 SSD enclosure the same way we get a USB one? Cheap, empty, with and without RAID, 1 or 2 port version. After all, Alpine chip cost about $9, total end user cost should be bellow $40-50.
  • Ethos Evoss - Thursday, February 23, 2017 - link

    you won't see any benefit.. as windows will throttle you... usb 3 is still very fast 300 or maybe 400MB/s can be awesome ... you doin now max 100 and u happy right ?
    Main question is if this external thing supports TRIM as speed may degrade ...
  • coder543 - Wednesday, November 23, 2016 - link

    Linux can definitely support exFAT, but support for it is not usually pre-installed, at least on Ubuntu. Windows is the oddball that refuses to support anyone else's filesystems.
  • bull2760 - Thursday, November 24, 2016 - link

    Forget buying Plextor. Why are they releasing new products when they still don't have any software to monitor their latest NVME drives. Not to mention the pre boot loader on the damn thing that delays startup my a couple of seconds. I really do not need to be reminded I purchased a Plextor drive every time I boot my computer, soooooo annoying! Second rate company that has lost its way.
  • mkozakewich - Monday, November 28, 2016 - link

    Finally! I've been waiting years and years for this exact thing. The SSDs inside had better be replaceable.
  • Ethos Evoss - Sunday, January 21, 2018 - link

    As long it has TRIM all is perfect !

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