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  • CherryBOMB - Monday, April 1, 2019 - link

    Is this capable of linking up to a current gen Ipad Pro 11 or 12? Thanks
  • bug77 - Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - link

    Easier to post on Anandtech then to look at the damn tablet, isn't it?
  • Guspaz - Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - link

    Is it not a reasonable question? The iPad Pro has a 10 gig USB-C connector, the lack of support for external USB storage is an iOS restriction that may not be obvious to users.
  • CMDMC12 - Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - link

    Ladies and gentlemen, behold the intelligence of the average Apple user.
  • LMonty - Friday, April 5, 2019 - link

    Says the below average keyboard warrior.
  • e1jones - Monday, April 1, 2019 - link

    A bit overkill for just a SATA SSD... but if the price is right....

    I've had a MyDigitalSSD M2X for a while, with a 128GB ADATA SX6000 inside. Nice performance (for an x2 PCIe), but the thing gets HOT! It's bigger & faster than the little USB thumbdrives for doing OS installs.
  • kpb321 - Monday, April 1, 2019 - link

    A 5 Gbps usb port does bottleneck a SATA SSD somewhat. After encoding and overhead 400-500 MBps is practical for USB 5 Gbps which is below what most decent SATA SSDs can sustain for sequential reads. Other things are likely to be slower and probably not bottle-necked by the USB connection. So a 10Gbps USB controller can help out the best case performance some and is not totally useless. The 20Gbps USB 3.2 ports should be really nice for good NVMe SSD drives.
  • bug77 - Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - link

    I'm not sure I'd pick this up over a good old USB stick.
  • jordanclock - Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - link

    Then you are likely not the kind of person that needs the kind of bandwidth, IOPS or access times that such a product is aimed for.
  • NewMaxx - Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - link

    The ADATA SX6000NP (as opposed to the newer Pro/Lite) is notorious for getting hot.
  • PixyMisa - Monday, April 1, 2019 - link

    Make one that takes two M.2 devices. World's smallest RAID array.
  • Valantar - Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - link

    https://www.addonics.com/products/ad2m2sar.php + any 2.5" SATA to USB adapter. Done.
  • Shadowarez - Monday, April 1, 2019 - link

    So will this be uefi bootable? Like a portable Linux box and as for raid I'd love to see a USB C version of the Asrick Quad Ultra but use those vapor chamber + fan to cool it.
  • Valantar - Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - link

    You'd like to see a USB version of a quad PCIe x4 NVMe SSD adapter? So you'd like to have 4 SSDs, but the performance of half of one? That doesn't sound like the best idea. And if your SSD needs a vapor chamber cooler, you're doing something _very_ wrong.
  • Xajel - Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - link

    Now I would like a comparison between Thunderbolt 3, USB 10Gbps & USB 5Gbps using the fastest NVMe M.2's we have, the Samsung 970 Pro and an Intel Optane... this will be epic..

    Ofcourse compare them also to direct PCIe with a direct to CPU path (not through a chipset or PCIe switch)
  • Valantar - Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - link

    ... this is a SATA-only adapter. NVMe need not apply.
  • Xajel - Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - link

    I know, I just said we need a comparison for NVMe external storage to see what is the best interface, and the pros and cons for each one.
  • star-affinity - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link

    Could throw this in the mix: https://i-tec.cz/en/produkt/tb3mysafem2-2/
  • HStewart - Thursday, April 4, 2019 - link

    I thought there was a review of this - but I believe on big difference with Thunderbolt is how it handles multiple devices but with USB 4.0 everything will be Thunderbolt.
  • SolvalouLP - Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - link

    I have a generic adapter just like this from eBay for a few years now. It's also a 10Gbps USB C adapter box. Works great, it is bootable, TRIM works flawlessly even on older Windows 7 machines thanks to its use of UASP protocol.

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