A user needs to connect a laptop to a 4K monitor, a high-speed external storage array, and an external graphics card using a single port. The user wants to ensure all devices operate at their maximum potential without significant performance degradation. Which of the following connection types would be BEST for this scenario?
Thunderbolt 3
USB 3.0
HDMI
eSATA
The correct answer is Thunderbolt 3. Thunderbolt 3 provides up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth, which is sufficient to handle video, storage, and other high-performance peripherals simultaneously. It also supports daisy-chaining up to six devices, allowing the monitor, storage array, and graphics card to be connected through a single port. USB 3.0 offers lower bandwidth (5 Gbps) and does not typically support daisy-chaining of diverse high-performance devices like displays and external GPUs in the same way. HDMI is a video and audio interface and cannot connect storage or external GPU data. eSATA is exclusively for external storage devices and does not support video or other peripherals.
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