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it wasn't long ago that external storage wasn't nearly as good as using the drive

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that was inside your computer not only were lots of portable storage solutions

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centered around mechanical drives or slower flash sticks but the connections

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themselves weren't as great usb 2.0 was a rather

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slow interface and e-SATA while much faster suffered from issues with hot

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plugability and compatibility then the various flavors of usb 3 hit

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the scene alongside flash drives and ssds that rivaled or even beat the

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performance of traditional internal drives leading us finally to the current

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king of the hill and the topic of today's video sponsored by sabrint

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Thunderbolt 3. it's a flashy sounding connection with

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flashy speeds to match in fact it can provide up to 40 gigabits per second of

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bandwidth over the pci express bus that's nearly seven times faster than a

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standard SATA connection but if you've ever shopped for an

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external Thunderbolt 3 device particularly for storage you may have

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gotten some sticker shock i mean it does make at least some kind

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of sense although Thunderbolt 3 uses a usb type-c connector it's much faster

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than standard usb devices about double

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even the newest usb 3.2 gen 2x2

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but is the extra speed alone worth it

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well it can be but only under specific conditions now there are external

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Thunderbolt 3 ssds out there that can exceed the maximum speeds that usb can

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provide but keep in mind that just because an

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SSD uses the Thunderbolt 3 protocol

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doesn't mean that you're getting close to its theoretical maximum so you need

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to check both of those spec sheets as well as reputable independent reviews to

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get an idea of whether the real world performance will actually benefit from

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the extra bandwidth furthermore while the extra speed can be

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useful if you're using your external drive for something very bandwidth heavy

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such as video editing in the real world

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unless you're constantly moving large files back and forth and and timing it

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with your watch the main benefit of Thunderbolt 3 is

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probably going to be that it connects to your system's pci express bus directly

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so you should experience a bit less overhead and latency to be clear we're

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not saying Thunderbolt 3 doesn't have other benefits than speed

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usb has certainly made up some ground in recent years and now also supports high

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resolution displays and up to a hundred watts of power to target devices just

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like Thunderbolt 3 but if every device in the chain which includes the cable

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has Thunderbolt 3 support it can do some really cool stuff

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because it uses pci express you can hook up giant raided storage towers to it

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without any performance concerns and then beyond storage you'll find all

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kinds of things like audio interfaces external graphics cards 4k capture cards

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10 gigabit networking cards and even just

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bearing closures that you could stick whatever pci express device you want

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into but while Thunderbolt 3 definitely has some good uses like so many things

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in the technology world we would strongly recommend making sure you

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actually need it before you start shelling out your cache because

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i mean everything about it even the cables that

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you'll need are more expensive i mean though if you really think about it do

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any of us need more than four walls a roof and a faucet

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okay food maybe too

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love speaking of love i love doing these

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segues for you guys if you do find yourself needing a Thunderbolt 3

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solution check out our sponsor for today's video sabrin their Thunderbolt 3

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a second and write speeds of up to 1200 megabytes a second it's great for video

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editing content creation or anything else that requires super speedy storage

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and the bumper guard will keep your drive protected on the go check it out

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