To: ReignOfError
I believe the speed of PCIe is pretty much the same as Thunderbolt 2.0: 20 gigabits per second. As such, connecting an external mass storage drive means no loss of access speed to and from the external storage device.
51 posted on
06/11/2013 1:38:59 PM PDT by
RayChuang88
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To: RayChuang88
I believe the speed of PCIe is pretty much the same as Thunderbolt 2.0: 20 gigabits per second. As such, connecting an external mass storage drive means no loss of access speed to and from the external storage device. A sixteen-lane PCIe v4.0 slot maxes out 31.51 GB/s. Note the uppercase "B". That's 12.5 times faster than Thunderbolt 2.0.
I think this mostly hurts in being able to upgrade to a better graphics card down the road.
52 posted on
06/11/2013 5:29:56 PM PDT by
Yossarian
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