It also means that using a Thunderbolt drive is the fastest way to backup your Mac via macOS Time Machine. This is particularly important for video editors, musicians and graphic designers that need to edit and transfer large files in seconds rather than minutes. You can get data transfer speeds of up to 40GB/s with Thunderbolt 3 and Thunderbolt 4 compared to a maximum of 20GB/s with USB 3.2 Gen 2×2, 10 GB/s with USB 3.1 Gen 2 and 5 GB/s with USB 3.1 Gen 1. The advantage of Thunderbolt ports is the incredibly high data transfer rates they can achieve compared to the USB-C ports that most Windows PCs have. There’s no difference in speed between Thunderbolt 3 and 4 but Thunderbolt 4 is a slightly higher standard and can drive more high resolution 4K and 8K external displays on a Mac. In fact, we think that Thunderbolt Drives are easily the best external hard drives for M1 & M2 Macs. Since around 2017 most Macs have the fastest Thunderbolt 3 ports and the latest Apple Silicon Mac Studio, MacBook Pro and M2 Macs have Thunderbolt 4 ports. Thunderbolt is an advanced data transfer technology developed between Intel and Apple back in 2011 and all Macs now have Thunderbolt ports.
Others will have to chime in.If you want the fastest external hard drive for your Mac then you need a Thunderbolt drive so we’ve looked at the best external Thunderbolt drives for Mac of 2023. You could also get a M.2 NVMe SSD drive in an external enclosure but I don't believe they make a Thurderbolt 2 enclosure for them and I don't know if a Thunderbolt 3 to 2 adapter would work either. These speed test were using a OWC Thunderbolt 4 Mini, 4 bay Thunderbolt 2 external enclosure, with various configurations of Crucial MX500 500gb drivesĢ Crucial SSD MX500 2.5” 4 bay Enclosures (2x500gb) 1TB w/677 r/733 Thunderbolt 1 on 2012 MBP 13ģ Crucial SSD MX500 2.5” 4 bay Enclosures (3x500gb) 1.5TB w/770 r/790 Thunderbolt 1 on 2012 MBP 13Ĥ Crucial SSD MX500 2.5” 4 bay Enclosures (4x500gb) 2.0TB w/755 r/810 Thunderbolt 1 on 2012 MBP 13Ĥ Crucial SSD MX500 2.5” 4 bay Enclosures (4x500gb) 2.0TB w/984 r/1181 Thunderbolt 2 on 2015 MBP 13 So you are not gaining much, if anything, in a thunderbolt enclosure and thunderbolt is much more expensive. The SSD's list theoretical max of 500mbps. With what I described above, you will get around 400mbps read and write.
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