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The use of the Thunderbolt 3 interface allows offering external SSD devices with a very high data transfer speed. An example of this are the new Western Digital G-DRIVE and G-SPEED, although their price will make them no longer interest users.

Western Digital G-DRIVE and G-SPEED

Western Digital G-DRIVE and G-SPEED are new external SSD storage systems based on the Tunderbolt 3 interface, allowing them to make use of the NVMe protocol to offer read and write speeds of up to 2800 MB / s, a figure that it puts them very close to the best models based on the M.2 format.

We recommend reading our post on the best SSDs of the moment SATA, M.2 NVMe and PCIe (2018)

The Western Digital G-DRIVE Mobile Pro is the most basic model, with capacities of 500 GB and 1 TB for prices of $ 660 and $ 1050 respectively. If you find them expensive, the G-DRIVE Pro model is offered in capacities of 960 GB, 1.92 TB, 3.84 TB and 7.68 TB for prices of $ 1400, $ 2100, $ 4100 and $ 7600 of form respective.

As for the G-SPEED Shuttle, it is a system with eight SSD drives inside that reaches capacities of 8 TB and 16 TB for prices of approximately $ 5, 100 and $ 7, 600, both are compatible with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and 50.

Thanks to the use of the Thunderbolt 3 interface, the bandwidth limitation of the USB 3.1 bus is avoided, since it only offers 10 Gbps, compared to Thunderbolt 3's 40 Gbps. In addition, this advanced interface allows the connection of devices in a chain. Their high performance makes them ideal for users who have to handle heavy content such as video at very high resolution.

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