One minor annoyance is that the provided carry pouch is big enough for the drive but doesn’t have the extra room needed for the thick cable. The only caveat to doing that is that the bandwidth of that interface is shared between multiple devices, and if you use display outputs through the docking station it won’t leave enough for the very best speeds on this hardware.
There isn’t anything special about how this drive is treated by the system it’s external storage connected via Thunderbolt 3 and works as you might expect any USB external drive to operate.īecause of the connection technology, it is possible to attach this to a Thunderbolt 3 docking station to backup your laptop when you are in the office. This drive comes pre-formated in exFAT, meaning that it should be ready to use irrespective of the computer OS on your system. Here’s how the Plugable Thunderbolt 3 2TB NVME SSD performed in our benchmark tests:ĬrystalDiskMark: 2870MBps (read) 2060MBps (write)ĪTTO: 2851MBps (read, 256mb) 1897MBps (write, 256mb)ĪS SSD: 2194MBps (seq read) 1542MBps (seq write) What’s on the outside of this drive is a little bit interesting, but pails into comparison with the more impressive technology inside it.
That lack of redundancy would normally count against an external drive, but in this instance why Plugable made this choice is patently obvious.Īs a Thunderbolt 3 drive designed to be connected using the full 40Gbit/s bandwidth available to that interface the length of the cable is critical, and also the integrity of the connection.Ī detachable cable might have worked fine, but the only way to guarantee that it would deliver all that this drive can do is a wired cable. The first slightly odd thing we noticed about this drive is that the short 18cm cable is permanently mounted, and therefore can’t be replaced should it ever become damaged. As you might expect from what was once solid metal, it feels heavy, virtually indestructible and extremely able to take significant abuse. The case is milled from a solid piece of aluminium and has fins cut into the sides to aid with heat dissipation.
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