About Thunderbolt (while this is really off the topic it is perhaps related to the topic) I was going to sell my PCI RAID card because it would likely run at around 3,000 MB/s and I thought a T-5 would be faster. But I suspect to achieve such speeds may take producers more time. There are very few Thunderbolt 5 products being sold, despite some reviews on different products which reveal great Blackmagic speeds which however seem to benefit from an external drive's cache rather than large file transfer speeds.
So I did a search on using the NVME drives inside the RAID card (I can just buy an external T-3 PCI box). The first one I found was this one on Amazon, but a maker who is going to sell a Thunderbolt 5 external drive (but its not available yet). The case is this one:
There certainly seems to be a lot of variations between "compatible with Thunderbolt" and actually providing Thunderbolt 3 data performance speeds in these products. One even said do not use Western Digital 750s, which is what my RAID card has, and it said while read speeds could hit 2,200 write speeds topped out at 1,400.
So I did a search on using the NVME drives inside the RAID card (I can just buy an external T-3 PCI box). The first one I found was this one on Amazon, but a maker who is going to sell a Thunderbolt 5 external drive (but its not available yet). The case is this one:
SABRENT Thunderbolt™ 3 Certified M.2 NVMe SSD Tool-Free Solid Aluminum Enclosure (EC-T3NS)
I read the description they says (including they are one of the few fully Intel certified for Thunderbolt) but in the last paragraph:- PLEASE NOTE: NOT compatible with USB-C ports. Your device must have a compatible Thunderbolt 3 port, otherwise the enclosure will not work!
There certainly seems to be a lot of variations between "compatible with Thunderbolt" and actually providing Thunderbolt 3 data performance speeds in these products. One even said do not use Western Digital 750s, which is what my RAID card has, and it said while read speeds could hit 2,200 write speeds topped out at 1,400.