Name: EXCLUSIVE: World's FIRST Thunderbolt 5 SSD Enclosure
Uploaded: 2025-05-24T20:24:02.000Z
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Yeah, those storage upgrades are going to get you.

Well, today I'm pretty excited because I already have the MacBook Pro here.

And the other reason I'm excited is because of this.

I actually haven't been this excited about an SSD enclosure in a long time.

But there's a good reason why this one is different.

You can tell how excited I am by my face, right?

This is the brand new Thunderbolt 5 enclosure and docking station.

And as far as I'm aware, this is the only one in the world.

Well, not this one, but this model by Acasis.

In fact, it's so brand new that I couldn't even find it on their own website.

And I just found out from Acasis that this is going to be launched very soon as a Kickstarter.

Big brands are using Kickstarter now because it's the hip thing to do nowadays.

What I want to find out is if this is the next must-have accessory for the new line of MacBooks that are Thunderbolt 5 capable.

Because I also bought this at the local micro center.

If we can reach advertised speeds or even come close to them, this will essentially eliminate the need to pay the huge Apple tax for storage.

If you're new to Thunderbolt, it's basically a really fast way of moving data around.

It also has charging capabilities through power delivery.

But today we'll focus on the data capabilities only.

Now Thunderbolt 4, the previous generation, has a theoretical limit of 40 gigabits per second.

Now, if you convert that, that's 5000 megabytes per second.

I don't know why they use gigabits, megabytes.

So if this thing can go faster than 5000, that's already a win in my book.

Now, just so we can get a baseline for comparison, this is what I'm getting on my internal drive.

And that is already pretty insanely fast.

We're getting up to 7300 megabytes in write and about 5900 in read.

This is the 4 terabyte version of the M4 Max MacBook Pro.

Well, it's certainly faster than 40 gigabits per second that Thunderbolt 4 is capable of.

In practical terms, we're going to use my old Thunderbolt 4 enclosure.

And I want to do some file transfers just to see what it's like.

By the way, on this Thunderbolt 4 enclosure, I'm getting 2500.

I'm going to move this 5 gigabyte file, which is part of an LLM, but it's just a blob.

I'm going to move it from my internal drive over to this SSD.

But that's 5 gigabytes, still probably more than most people will be moving.

When it comes to moving larger files, or let's say you want to use your external drive to actually store your LLMs or build code on your external drives, keep your projects on there, then that's going to have a long term effect on how much time you're going to waste or not waste doing it.

That's why these fast internal drives have been such a hit.

Next, let's transfer this large file image, which is 53 gigabytes and see how long it takes.

So this says less than a minute, and this is the total amount of time that it took.

OK, not too bad, but still kind of noticeable.

After all, we live in a TikTok generation and the YouTube shorts generation.

By the way, I appreciate you all watching this video, even though it's more than one minute long.

Congratulations, you've managed to preserve your attention span.

Wow, that is actually a little bit smaller than my previous favorite Thunderbolt 4 dock.

And they fit an SSD enclosure in there, too.

So my old OWC one, still a really good dock, and I've really enjoyed using it over the years.

We got three Thunderbolt 4 ports, and now we have three Thunderbolt 5 ports.

The OWC one has one on the front, but otherwise they're very close.

But this I think is going to be a winner.

They're going to come out with their own as well.

But is it going to have an SSD enclosure?

The Acacia's one feels a little heavier. 271, 272.

So if you're going to be portable with this thing, you're going to be carrying around the dock, plus this thing and the cable, which together is another 695 grams.

Now, I've got a bunch of NVMe SSDs here, but this is the latest and greatest.

And according to this, the read speed is up to 7,450 megabytes per second, even beating out the internal drive here.

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