Thunderbolt 5 ports and cables will look the same as Thunderbolt 4 and USB-C ports, and they'll have the same lighting bolt icon as Thunderbolt 4 gear, but there will be a little "5" next to the ...

And, of course, for a lot less cash than the 20Gbps/40Gbps options. If capacity means more to you than top performance, then ...

If you need a massive external SSD, the Oyen Digital U34 Bolt is price-leading and speedy to boot. Snap up the lowest price ever on OWC's 14-port Thunderbolt 3 dock to run alongside your Mac or PC.

But this isn't a bolt-on eGPU like a Thunderbolt/OCuLink dock or enclosure; it's basically an off-the-peg desktop PC without a GPU; it just doesn't look like one. But it's banging value for money ...

Though it was a bit rough around the edges in terms of backwards compatibility, my first look at 80Gbps (64Gbps for PCIe/NVMe) Thunderbolt 5 storage reveals a very nice uptick in performance ...