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Read up on some of the information on their website. This storage device can be used by four computers but I'm not exactly sure whether all of the storage is accessible by every computer at the same time. They actually offer 50m Thunderbolt cables. You can daisy chain up to six of these and their website shows a user with two of them tied together. It includes 12 slots and the NVMe blades come with attached heatsinks. It's funny that the M-series Macs rarely need a fan to keep cool while this device includes a 180W power adaptor. They make a big deal about repair but all this is is a box with a lid that comes off and the blades held in by one screw, typical for NVMe SSD enclosures. Replacing a SSD is not really repairing anything and I doubt anyone would even try repairing the computer board. Tech sheet doesn't mention fan or cool(ing) so it appears it isn't cooled at all. Their statement about running at up to 5GB/s means they feel their device can use the entire Thunderbolt3/4 bandwidth, which I doubt it can unless they use two TB3 ports that are on individual channels like the 2021 MBPs. If so, I'd see speeds in the more common 2800 range. Using RAID along with two TB channels might reach 5GB but the amazing thing is the M1 Max can do that with unified memory without RAID. It will be interesting if Apple is able to create some external storage solutions attached to their unified memory that compares favorably with Thunderbolt speeds. NVMe is available so all it takes is a way to connect it to the M-series SoC while maintaining the speed.

Do I need the speed? Of course I do (not!).

Not about Apple so DOJ won't go after them especially since their buddies in the FBI can use this data.

People need to look at the 2017 DOE Sensitive Foreign Nations Control document to see Israel is listed. This means any DOE employee contact with anyone from this list must be reported. The DOE does not simply put names on the list, they have documented evidence to support why they're on the list. Israel has long been a country the USA looks at with suspicion unless, of course, they need something Israel produces. 

Just because Israel is on the list doesn't mean the US government doesn't have purchase agreements with them. It wouldn't surprise me if the US government isn't the largest purchaser of NSO software and systems. I don't have any information on this, it's just a feeling. Unless you are on the inside (and I wasn't) you won't know the extent of the amount of business the US government does with companies like NSO.

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/02/f34/Part VII, SECTION J - List of Documents, Exhibits,and Other Attachments Attachment G_0.pdf

Funny the FBI feels they have legal rights to my private conversations with people. If they have legal rights I should have legal rights to access their conversations since I’m a taxpayer. 

Property tax breaks of 92.5% means Samsung won’t be contributing to schools and infrastructure (utilities). Who pays for those? Oil? Nobody does because the rich get richer and everyone else lives in poverty. Texas has become like an abused third-world country.