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When USB 4 isn’t Thunderbolt

met with the success it deserved for SSDs. Ready–made drives remain unusual and expensive, while assembling your own often fails to deliver full performance. However, this now looks set to change with the arrival of USB 4 drives and enclosures capable of higher speeds than Thunderbolt 3, with a larger market to drive prices down. The standards are a mess, but Thunderbolt 3 only provides 32Gbps for general data, while USB

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