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> full speed transfers over the USB Type-C / TB3 ports. The NVMe SSDs in the Macbooks are significantly higher throughput than USB-C ports support.
by Afforess 9y ago
> full speed transfers over the USB Type-C / TB3 ports.
The NVMe SSDs in the Macbooks are significantly higher throughput than USB-C ports support.
- kevinherron 9y agoShould have clarified, I meant full speed in regards to both the SATA3 interface (6Gbps) and what the 850's are capable of, which is something like ~500-550 MB/s.
- otterley 9y agoThe access latencies are quite different, though, are they not?
- kevinherron 9y agoI don't know. The throughput seems to be there: https://imgur.com/a/hhvZ2 https://imgur.com/a/hhvZ2 For my use case, which is storing and running VMs directly off the external drive, it works better than I had ever hoped. The whole setup feels very fast.