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What performance should you get from different types of storage?
How much faster should a Thunderbolt 3 SSD be for making Time Machine backups? How can you speed up backups to your NAS? Here are representative speeds from real testing.
Over the last few years I have tested and reviewed many examples of different types of external storage, from basic USB 3 hard drives, to the latest USB4 SSD enclosures, and NAS packed with fast SSDs. Throttling of Time Machine backup writing isn’t supposed to occur when backing up over a network, and there is some evidence here to support that, with significantly better results for 50 MB test files. Further reading Posted in Macs, Technology and tagged hard disk, NAS, NVMe, performance, SATA, SSD, storage, Thunderbolt, USB 3, USB4.
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