Review on GIGABYTE GC-Titan Ridge 2.0 Thunderbolt 3 PCIe Card Component by Skye Gunnell

Basically I bought a Thunderbolt (tbt) card to move data from my main computer to an external drive faster. tbt SSDs are currently available that take advantage of the tbt speed, heat up after transferring a few gigabytes of data, and then slow the transfer speed down to USB 3.0 speeds. Typically, the speed starts at 1200 Mbps and drops to 100 Mbps after about a minute. Also, tbt drives are roughly twice as expensive as USB 3.2 Gen 2 drives of the same capacity. And considering throttling, 2nd gen USB drives are faster when moving large amounts of data to a tbt drive (due to heating/throttling issues). Perhaps throttling and heat dissipation problems will be solved when new TBT drives appear. I have documentation associated with the card. There's little that explains what the various ports on this card are for. The best documentation I've found on this is on the message boards. For example, no electricity needs to be connected to the card, and some functions also work without it. What is the USB 2.0 port for? The documentation mentioned connecting a tbt card to a GPU, but nothing showed how to do it. In this case, a picture would say more than a thousand words. It turns out to be an external cable connecting the card's display port to the GPU's external display port. Mobo settings are not mentioned in the document, but some motherboards have a BIOS setting that needs to be enabled. Enabling write caching significantly speeds up writing to a tbt connected disk, but the docs don't mention this either. A decent doc would have saved me hours trying to find things out with a google search. If there are fast tbt drives on the market that don't throttle and are competitively priced then the card is more useful to me.