I'm planning to buy a 4tb ssd but have a few questions. The thing is, intend to use it exclusively externally in an enclosure (for the fore seeable future at least). Most of the buying guides that I see on yt are made with the intent of using the SSD internally, because that's the more common use case ofcourse. My question is, that for MY external use, do DRAM yes/no; TLC/QLC; TBW rating even matter?
ALSO, the ssd's I'm eyeing rn are said to have a theoretical max speed of somewhere in the range of 6gb/s. Now, all enclosures online offer USB 3.1 gen 2 which implies 10gb/s. Even tho my laptop rn has 3.1 gen 1x1, i.e 5gb/s max, if I upgrade it in the future to be compatible with latest USB protocols, will I get anywhere near that theoretical 6-7gb/s speed? if not, what will the bottleneck be? The enclosure, the USB protocol or my Laptop?