Hacker News with Generative AI: Thunderbolt

You can finally buy a Thunderbolt 5 SSD (theverge.com)
Following the arrival of the first Thunderbolt 5 cables last July and the first Thunderbolt 5 dock last September, it might finally be time to start upgrading your external storage to take advantage of the increased performance.
Hardware, Storage, Technology, Thunderbolt
6 points by teleforce 27 days ago | 4 comments
Asus launches first Thunderbolt 5 eGPU with RTX 5090 (theverge.com)
This smoky black translucent box isn’t a gaming PC — instead, it might be the most powerful single-cable portable docking station ever conceived.
Hardware, Graphics Cards, Thunderbolt, Portable Devices, Asus
12 points by Lwrless 137 days ago | 2 comments
Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster? (eclecticlight.co)
They might all connect to the same ports, but Thunderbolt 3, 4, 5, USB 3 and USB4 are disturbingly different, and few deliver the performance that their up-tos promise. From the figures that I see here at the moment, the most reliably performant in widely available products is USB4, but that’s not supported by Thunderbolt 3 on Intel Macs.
Storage, Hardware, Performance, Thunderbolt, USB
105 points by zdw 151 days ago | 123 comments