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I tried this for a bit and noticed a huge performance drop. Also noticed system freezing.

I have an NVME 2.0TB drive in a USB-C enclosure and while fast as an external this is not fast enough for booting and running the dozen or so apps I keep open on my MBP.

YMMV if you don’t act as a power user.

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> USB-C enclosure

Keep in mind that USB-C != Thunderbolt 3. Yes, the latter also physically connects to a USB-C form port, but it's totally different. It's quite confusing and sad.

Was USB 4 gonna solve that or was that just me dreaming?

USB 4 is basically just Thunderbolt 3. Standards bodies being what they are, it's more complicated than that, but not by much.

USB-C is super slow for this. You need to use Thunderbolt NVME enclosures which can run the NVME at PCIe 3.0 x 4 speed. I have 5 and RAID them together, which handily beats the internal drive for speed by about 2x.

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