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iMac (Mid 2011): Target Display Mode does not accept video over a Mini DisplayPort cable". Apple. 14 July 2011 . Retrieved 17 July 2011. Grunin, Lori (4 March 2019). "USB4 marries Thunderbolt 3 for faster speeds and smarter transfers". CNET . Retrieved 4 March 2019. Broekhuijsen, Niels (6 February 2020). "Intel Finally Certified an AMD Thunderbolt Motherboard: Here's Why That Matters (Updated)". Tom's Hardware . Retrieved 3 March 2020. Clarke, Peter (1 October 2009). "IPtronics, Avago chip in to Intel's optical interconnect". EE Times . Retrieved 1 October 2009. This Thunderbolt 3 cable from Plugable is one of the best all-rounders here when used with a compatible storage device or Windows or Mac PC or laptop. It offers the fastest data-transfer speeds, can carry enough charge to power most laptops, and it has an appealingly low price.Shah, Agam (6 June 2013). "Intel shows 'world's fastest thumb drive' ". Computerworld . Retrieved 26 August 2021. Thunderbolt 3 is a hardware interface developed by Intel. [74] It shares USB-C connectors with USB, supports USB 3.1 Gen 2, [75] [76] [77] and can require special "active" cables for maximum performance for cable lengths over 0.5 meters (1.5 feet). Compared to Thunderbolt 2, it doubles the bandwidth to 40 Gbit/s (5 GB/s). It allows up to 4 lanes of PCI Express 3.0 (32.4 Gbit/s) for general-purpose data transfer, and 4 lanes of DisplayPort 1.4 HBR3 (32.40 Gbit/s before 8/10 encoding removal, and 25.92 Gbit/s after) for video, [78] but the maximum combined data rate cannot exceed 40 Gbit/s; video data will be using all needed speed, limiting PCIe data. DP 1.2 support is mandatory, while DP 1.4 is optional. Other overheads are possible on PCIe data (1.5% of 128b/130b is also removed) and Thunderbolt 3 protocol (you either optimise for speed or for latency), the last one gives only 21.6 Gbit/s to 25 Gbit/s. [79] Thunderbolt 3 uses 64b/66b encoding after that, which means the real rate is bigger than 40 Gbit/s, 2 times 20.625 Gbit/s. As of late 2012, few other storage devices offering double-digit TB capacity had appeared. Exceptions included Sonnet Technologies' highly priced professional units, and Drobo's 4- and 5-drive enclosures, the latter featuring their own BeyondRAID proprietary data-handling system.