⚠️ I’m having an extreme amount of trouble finding an external SSD 2TB that supports Thunderbolt 4 and or USB 4. Any suggestions? I’ve done a YouTube search as well with no luck. Thanks.
Mac Studio, macOS 12.4
The OWC Envoy Pro Express SX offers 2847 MB/s.
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-envoy-pro-sx
The OWC Envoy Pro Express FX offers 2800 MB/s.
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-envoy-pro-fx
Plus you can contact OWC and ask what speed the Envoy’s actually bench tested at when connected to a Mac Studio.
In my research I just found a Fantom Drives Extreme 4TB External SSD - 2800MB/s, Thunderbolt 3 and 4, USB
Type-C, Aluminum, Intel Certified, TB3X-2300N4TB. It also comes in 2TB and 1TB.
About 2700 M Bytes/sec is about the limit of ThunderBolt connected drives.
A drive that is itself faster can not perform any faster than that when connected using a Thunderbolt enclosure.
Drives that have their own power adapter are not subject to random disconnection when the Mac sleeps.
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