Patriot Evlvr SSD provides speedy Thunderbolt portable storage
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Thunderbolt 3 (TB3) seemingly gets attention around here for its ability to attach displays, charge laptops, or conjoin ultrabooks with external graphics boxes. The PCIe 3.0 lanes that travel inside those expensive cables can be used for things other than graphics, and Patriot is putting them to use to connect a portable SSD built around the Phison E8 controller found in the company's Scorch entry-level M.2 NVMe SSDs. Anandtech says that chip lords over Toshiba BiCS 3D TLC NAND.
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