Thunderbolt and USB-C ports look identical, and they work in pretty much the same way. The broad-brush answer is that ...

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This small, 64mm square drive contains either 1TB, 2TB or 4TB capacity and promises read speeds of 4,000MB/s and write ...

The high speed of Thunderbolt 3 allows for external GPU's to be connected, like the housing from Black Magic, and act as if they were native GPUs. External drives can take advantage of these ...

The industry is transitioning away from Thunderbolt 3 and embracing Thunderbolt 4 ... connect PC peripherals like mice, printers, external hard drives, and more. A Thunderbolt dock has ...

The top external SSDs and ... platters the way traditional hard drives do and thus operate a whole lot faster. The interface can also make a difference; Thunderbolt will be a lot faster than ...

most external hard drives use a flavor of USB or, in rare cases, Thunderbolt. Right now, the fastest connection type in wide use on hard drives is Thunderbolt 3, which is handy assuming you have a ...

Thunderbolt 3 or 4 vs. plain old USB 3.0. Thunderbolt 3 and 4 claim potential bandwidth up to 40Gbps, but again, your typical external hard drive won't push data anywhere close to that limit.