Hello Likenun,
Thank you for your suggestion!
The people who’d use Thunderbolt are the kind of people who value less cable clutter, proprietary power adapters, and/or power bricks. I have a box full of power adapters with various voltages, amps, and barrel shapes—the biggest pain point being that they are all mutually incompatible with other devices. Being environmentally friendly is a bonus to ditching the power adapters, and I’d prefer if the product came without any power adapter at all!
That is a good point! Especially since most devices nowadays have adopted Type C charging ports (e.g. cell phones, laptops). I even imagined that I could just take one charger with me when I go out, which would also help with portability.
We will include this proposal in the specification assessment!
U.3 hosts are not backwards compatible with U.2 hosts, but U.2 hosts are forwards compatible with U.3 devices. Making a U.3 adapter means making a product that excludes the much larger base of U.2 users.
You are right, but theoretically the CP117 will be compatible with U.2/U.3 SSDs.
U.2 SSD comes in all sizes ranging from 7 mm thick to 15 mm thick, and some even in 3.5 inch form factor. The connector alignment to the adapter body should take care to allow both the SSD and the adapter to lay flat on the surface without placing strain on the male connector.
Got it. like the design of our MB931U-1VB R1 right?
We will include this proposal in the specification assessment!
The ASM2464PD and ASM2464PDX differ in a very significant way that may be important for an extremely niche case: SSDs that present themselves as two PCIe devices. The ASM2464PD supports only one device, but the ASM2464PDX supports up to four. I have the ZikeDrive 666 M.2 adapter which uses ASM2464PD, and it is incapable of using my Intel Optane Memory H20 SSD, which is made of two distinct devices hanging off 2 PCIe lanes each and cohabiting on the same PCB, sharing one physical connector. The Intel Optane Memory H10 and H20 series are possibly the only such product series in wide circulation that work in such a way. And only the ASM2464PDX might have a shot at making it work in an adapter.
Yeah, we are also paying attention to the development of ASM2464PDX, and continue to think about what products can be introduced to meet customer application needs, but the application you mentioned, I'm not sure if 2464PDX can work properly, still need to verified.