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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
....I tested a freshly initialized Crucial MX500 2TB with, iirc, a Rosewill USB3-SATA adapter with UASP support. Used this USB-C hub to get USB-A ports.
https://www.amazon.com/uni-USB-Hub-6...dp/B07Q8TRVTN/
Test data is 13.06GB, 51 files. 4 are MP4 movies that are ~3+ GB each. The rest of the files are metadata and artwork (poster, backgrounds, etc).
2020 M1 MacBook Air 8GB/512GB
Crucial MX500 2TB
Read: 302.7 MB/s
Write: 315.3 MB/s
2020 iPad Pro 12.9 256GB
Crucial MX500 2TB
Read: 216.9 MB/s
Write: 166.3 MB/s |
I took your advice and got a Samsung T5 2TB USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 external SSD Drive. The following tests were right out of the box with ExFAT formatting. Wow, it is quite impressive on both my 2014 MacBook Pro and iPad Air 2020!
I'm trying to decide whether to leave the Samsung T5 with ExFAT or reformat it to APFS. I'm leaning toward leaving it "as is" with ExFAT because the speeds are already impressive, and I do have a Windows 10 laptop I occasionally use. However, I do have other external drives I could use to exchange files between the Mac and the Win 10 laptop. I rarely exchange files between them though.
Once again the test file was a 1.07GB .mov video file created using a command line in the Terminal app on my MacBook Pro. However, I also included the results from the Blackmagicdesign app and the ATTO Disk Benchmark app for the MacBook Pro speeds.
IPad Air 4 with Samsung T5 2TB USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 External SSD Drive (ExFAT format)- READ speed = 214 MB/s
- WRITE speed = 134 MB/s
MacBook Pro with Samsung T5 2TB USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 External SSD Drive (ExFAT format)- READ speed = 357 MB/s
- WRITE speed = 356 MB/s
- Blackmagicdesign: READ = 421 MB/s
- Blackmagicdesign: WRITE = 418 MB/s
- ATTO Disk Benchmark: READ speed = 419 MB/s
- ATTO Disk Benchmark: WRITE speed = 435 MB/s