expiredleovip posted Jun 22, 2021 03:39 AM
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expiredleovip posted Jun 22, 2021 03:39 AM
Amazon.com: Crucial X8 1TB Portable SSD – Up to 1050MB/s – USB 3.2 – External Solid State Drive, USB-C, USB-A – CT1000X8SSD9: Computers & Accessories $95
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Some USB 3.1 (marked Gen 2) and all USB 3.2 devices support speeds up around 1000 MB/S., to fully utilize this speed you would need something like Crucial X8 from this topic or NVMe drive in an enclosure.
From reading people's reviews of this drive, a number of people are trying to use it with some rotating expiry backup software (on their Mac), which tends to use up the entire disk before deleting old data to make room for the newest backup. That strategy works okay on an HDD, but for this SSD, it makes it impossible for the drive to acheive fast write speeds because you've eliminated all the available space it would've used for high speed write caching, leaving you stuck in the slower QLC final write speed.
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