La Cie Rugged USB-C 5TB - how fast should we expect?

USB-C refers to the connector only, not speed. Your drive is USB 3 which in theory is 5 Gb/s = 625 MB/s. However, no matter what the transfer speed, you are limited by the drive’s read and write speeds which in your case is 130 MB/s https://www.lacie.com/support/mobile-storage/rugged-usbc/#specs

Since USB 2 is rated 480 Mb/s = 60 MB/s, a USB 2 drive would be slower.

Actual transfers are lower and depend on number of files, file size and type of files which in the case of audio is many, many, small files = more overhead and housekeeping during transfers.

Short summary: wait it out.

Glad to hear that you solved the connection problem.

I agree, the https://www.lacie.com/support/mobile-storage/rugged-usbc/ should get somewhere around 100+ MB/s.

What are you going to use this additional drive for?

Personally if I was looking for a better more reliable drive for critical work, then I would return the LaCie and go with one of the OWC drives. https://eshop.macsales.com/search/?filter.catidpath=4353&filter.dimension_type_135=Pre-Built%20Solution

For examples,

the https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/ME3NH7T04/

or the https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/ME6CM5T04/

I think that the lager internal SSD was a excellent idea, because you can always unload projects off of it in your spare time.

The only other good option is one of those smaller and lighter large capacity TB 3 SSD’s, that cost an arm & leg.

hcsitas wrote:

Err, technically there’s no such thing as a TB3 SSD...

OWC, among other vendors, are selling fully Thunderbolt3

SSDs. Example:

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/TB3ENVP02/

Cool, thanks.

Err, technically there’s no such thing as a TB3 SSD...what you probably mean (or are falling for) is a USB 3 drive with a USB C connector (?)