forum threadehobax posted Nov 11, 2025 11:29 PM
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forum threadehobax posted Nov 11, 2025 11:29 PM
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I guess in fairness, since it has two 3.5" bays you'll most likely use two 3.5" mechanical drives for max storage space or maybe two 2.5" SSD's for a bit more speed. That means even with the one NVMe port even with the fastest drives currently out you probably can't get much above 8,000Mbps combined, which is under the 10Gbps USB this would support. (My napkin math here is that based on current hardware the one NVMe could do 7,000Mbps and 2 x 2.5's SSD could do 560Mbps each for a total of 8,120MBps...)
So maybe it makes sense to save hardware and licensing costs, getting savings you can pass on to the consumer, by choosing USB instead of the more costly Thunderbolt.
Edit: See the comment below. It's actually much worse than I'm saying here because as the comment below points out I failed to consider that USB speeds are measured in bits so 1/8th of the speed of the drives measured in bytes. The means that just the two 560MBps 2.5" SSDs could use around 90% of the 10Gbps without even considering the faster NVMe.
I guess in fairness, since it has two 3.5" bays you'll most likely use two 3.5" mechanical drives for max storage space or maybe two 2.5" SSD's for a bit more speed. That means even with the one NVMe port even with the fastest drives currently out you probably can't get much above 8,000Mbps combined, which is under the 10Gbps USB this would support. (My napkin math here is that based on current hardware the one NVMe could do 7,000Mbps and 2 x 2.5's SSD could do 560Mbps each for a total of 8,120Mbps...)
So maybe it makes sense to save hardware and licensing costs, getting savings you can pass on to the consumer, by choosing USB instead of the more costly Thunderbolt.
So this thing has the max bandwidth of basically 2 sata ssd drives and only theoretically.
Seems ok for some kind of time machine/scheduled backup storage, but I wouldn't use it as a system drive.
So this thing has the max bandwidth of basically 2 sata ssd drives and only theoretically.
Seems ok for some kind of time machine/scheduled backup storage, but I wouldn't use it as a system drive.
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