It's been around for 12 years, was designed as a competitor to Thunderbolt and is more of a companion standard to PCI Express. Where Thunderbolt employs micro-controllers between device and bus ...

the limitations of Thunderbolt limit the speed. You don’t have to rely on Apple’s PCIe offerings, either. You can get an $800 Sonnet M.2 8×4 Silent Gen4 PCIe Card and then add 32TB of very ...