Is it? I haven’t tried, but there’s a pretty big gulf between an NVMe interface max bandwidth and TB4’s. I mean, TB4 is pretty amazing (40Gbps), but NVMe m.2 is 128Gbps; Sabrent makes an m.2 SSD with 104kGbps read speeds; heck, Crucial has a $114 2TB m.2 SSD they claim gets 40k/33.6k R/W. And this assumes that whatever computer you get access to has a TB4 port, and not just USBC 3.0, which tops out at 5Gbps.
But this all reminds me that I need to get a bigger NVMe stick and move everything off the SCSI SSD.
Depends on exactly what you need. For a lot of day to day tasks, especially if you’re not moving around large amounts of data, TB4 speeds are probably fine.
I wouldn’t do it with USB 3.0, but 3.2 gen 2 could theoretically work depending on your workload and use case.
My usage barely benefits past 3.2 gen 2 because my disk is never my bottleneck. It’s either network or processor. It’s one of those things where everyone has to look at their own usage and decide.
TB4 is like 5000MB/s if the mini PC has that. Plenty fast for a lot of applications. It’ll cap an NVME but it’s good enough to run off of.
Is it? I haven’t tried, but there’s a pretty big gulf between an NVMe interface max bandwidth and TB4’s. I mean, TB4 is pretty amazing (40Gbps), but NVMe m.2 is 128Gbps; Sabrent makes an m.2 SSD with 104kGbps read speeds; heck, Crucial has a $114 2TB m.2 SSD they claim gets 40k/33.6k R/W. And this assumes that whatever computer you get access to has a TB4 port, and not just USBC 3.0, which tops out at 5Gbps.
But this all reminds me that I need to get a bigger NVMe stick and move everything off the SCSI SSD.
Depends on exactly what you need. For a lot of day to day tasks, especially if you’re not moving around large amounts of data, TB4 speeds are probably fine.
I wouldn’t do it with USB 3.0, but 3.2 gen 2 could theoretically work depending on your workload and use case.
My usage barely benefits past 3.2 gen 2 because my disk is never my bottleneck. It’s either network or processor. It’s one of those things where everyone has to look at their own usage and decide.