![]() Western Digital brought NVMe support to their My Passport SSD product line last month. In 2020, we have seen the market move en-masse to NVMe SSDs behind a USB 3.2 Gen 2 bridge for this market segment. ![]() Traditional SATA SSDs (saturating at 560 MBps) can hardly take full advantage of the bandwidth offered by USB 3.2 Gen 2. High-performance external storage devices use either Thunderbolt 3 or USB 3.2 Gen 2 for the host interface. This review discusses the performance and characteristics of Western Digital's latest offerings (2020 catalog) supporting USB 3.1 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) speeds. While those speeds can be achieved with Thunderbolt 3, mass-market devices have to rely on USB. ![]() Thanks to rapid advancements in flash technology (including the advent of 3D NAND and NVMe) as well as faster host interfaces (such as Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.x), we now have palm-sized flash-based storage devices capable of delivering 2GBps+ speeds. External bus-powered storage devices have grown both in storage capacity as well as speeds over the last decade. ![]()
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