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I think the idea here is that, between plentiful Firewire 2 and Thunderbolt 2, you now have enough external bandwidth that you shouldn't need internal cards. W
by gecko 13y ago
I think the idea here is that, between plentiful Firewire 2 and Thunderbolt 2, you now have enough external bandwidth that you shouldn't need internal cards. When given the choice, I prefer this route, since it means I can transport my proprietary stuff to other machines, or even use them with laptops in a pinch.
That might not work for you, granted, but the amount of bandwidth available between all those ports (20 GB/s in the case of Thunderbolt 2) should be enough to cover most use-cases.
- reportingsjr 13y agoA correction: Thunderbolt 2 can go up to 20Gbits/s not 20GBytes/s. Thunderbolt uses a 4x PCI-E 2.0 connection. Things like graphics cards use 16x PCI-E 3.0 at this point which is 128Gbits/s.
- kbuck 13y agoActually, a 16x PCIe 3.0 slot can do ~128Gbit/s each way - ~256Gbit/s in total[1]. [1]: http://www.pcisig.com/news_room/faqs/pcie3.0_faq/#EQ3 http://www.pcisig.com/news_room/faqs/pcie3.0_faq/#EQ3