SK Hynix is nothing if not creative with naming. Witness the previously reviewed scarab-shaped Beetle, and now the Tube T31. The Tube T31 is, in fact, a Type-A USB stick, aka a thumb or flash drive or “tube” if you will—at least in shape and design. Internally, the T31 features NVMe and 10Gbps USB and performs more like the cable-attached external 10Gbps USB SSDs we review—that is, it’s fast.
Note that while we distinguish between what’s referred to as a thumb drive and external SSDs, the former
