Hello everyone,
Is there a way to get the speed of 20 gbps on the MacBook pro M2 chip ( directly via Thunderbolt or a Hub) with an external SSD such as Kingston XS2000? If not then is it better to save some money and get a 10 gbps SSD such as Crucial X8 or SanDisk Extreme portable?
MacBook Pro 14″
Keep in mind that most SSD drives fall FAR short of the maximum.
ThunderBolt-3 and later Macs can get up to nominal 2500 M Bytes/sec on an SSD drive in a ThunderBolt-3 enclosure.
if you are certain you can use those speeds, your best bet his to use a ThunderBolt device and ThunderBolt cable. ThunderBolt cables have twice as many data conductors as USB-C, so when used with genuine ThunderBolt devices, they may provide a faster data highway.
A quick 'ballpark estimate' is to divide the bits/sec by 10, which give the Bytes/sec accounting for overhead in one easy mental-math operation. So a device on a 20 G bits/sec highway COULD achieve up to 2,000 Bytes/sec, IF and ONLY IF the device is fast enough.
That drive is so much faster than a rotating magnetic drive, you will provably not notice any difference between USB-3 and ThunderBolt. If you use a connection that is slower, occasionally, transfers are very slightly slowed.
I agree that the last few percent is not worth the extra BIG BUCKS.
Thank You for the answer. Well TB enclosure+NVME SSD would be the best and fastest option but too expensive. I don't wanna spend more than 150$ for an external SSD
USB 3.2 2x2 compatibility with M2 Pro
