Edit: forgot is isn't "true" PCIe but tunneled.
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/ip-thunderbolt-conn... etc
You'd also mostly be limited to short cables (1-2m) and a ring topology.
But this is a cool solution
If you're using an adapter card to add Thunderbolt functionality, then your mainboard needs to support that, and the card must be connected to a PCIe bus that's wired to the Intel PCH, not to the CPU.
Also, if you remember where you saw that logo, please let me know!
I have a 10gbit dual port card in a Lenovo mini pc. There is no normal way to get any heat out of there so I put a 12v small radial fan in there as support. It works great at 5v: silent and cool. It is a fan though so might not suit your purpose.
I had to do a double-take when it mentioned Kelvin since That is physically impossible.
It 'reduces it by' ... not reduces it TO
The placement is mostly determined by the design of the OCP 2.0 connector. OCP 3.0 has a connector at the short edge of the card, which allows exposing/extending the heat sink directly to the outer case.
If somebody has the talent, designing a Thunderbolt 5 adapter for OCP 3.0 cards could be a worthwhile project.
As a stop-gap, I'd see if there was any way to get airflow into the case - I'd expect even a tiny fan would do much more than those two large heatsinks stuck onto the case (since the case itself has no thermal connection to the chip heatsink).
If that's not a requirement just get the Raiden Digit Light One, which does have a fan (and otherwise the same network card).
If I could design an adapter PCB myself, I would go straight to OCP 3.0, which allows for a much simpler construction, and TB5 speeds.
Alternatively, there are DELL CX422A rNDC cards (R887V) that appear to have an OCP 2.0 connector but a better heatsink design.
If truly concerned, one could use SFP28 to SFP28 cage adapters to have the heat outside the case, and slap on some extra heatsinks there.
All I want to do is copy over all the photos and videos from my phone to my computer but I have to baby sit the process and think whether I want to skip or retry a failed copy. And it is so slow. USB 2.0 slow. I guess everybody has given up on the idea of saving their photos and videos over USB?
Many phones indeed only support USB 2.0. For example the base iPhone 17. The Pro does support USB 3.2, however.
> I guess everybody has given up on the idea of saving their photos and videos over USB?
Correct.
As wireless charging never quite reached the level hoped – see AirPower – and Google/Apple seemingly bought and never did anything with a bunch of haptic audio startups, I figure that idea died....but they never cared enough to make sure the USB port remained top end.
My last two phones in the last 4 years had at least USB 3.1
Until USB has monthly service business to compete with cloud storage revenue.
Do you import originals or do you have the "most compatible" setting turned on?
I always assumed apple simply hated people that use windows/linux desktops so the occasional broken file was caused by the driver being sort-of working and if people complain, well, they can fuck off and pay for icloud or a mac. After upgrading to 15 pro which has 10 gbps usb-c it still took forever to import photos and the occasional broken photos kept happening, and after some research it turns out that the speed was limited by the phone converting the .heic originals into .jpg when transferring to a desktop. Not only does it limit the speed, it also degrades the quality of the photos and deletes a bunch of metadata.
After changing the setting to export original files the transfer is much faster and I haven’t had a single broken file / video. The files are also higher quality and lower filesize, although .heic is fairly computationally-demanding.
Idk about Android but I suspect it might have a similar behavior
With TB5, and deep pockets, you might probably also benchmark it against a setup with dedicated TB5 enclosures (e.g., Mercury Helios 5S).
TB5 has PCIe 4.0 x4 instead of PCIe 3.0 x4 -- that should give you 50 GbE half-duplex instead of 25 GbE. You would need a different network card though (ConnectX-5, for example).
Pragmatically though, you could also aggregate (bond) multiple 25 GbE network card ports (with Mac Studio, you have up to 6 Thunderbolt buses, so more than enough to saturate a 100GbE connection).