Apple Studio Display questions

[Sonoran49]

My new M2 Mini & ASD are working fine so far.... Yay! I do have two question about the USB-C ports on the ASD.

If I connected my Time Machine drive (Samsung T7 1TB) to one of the ports on the ASD is the read/write speed affected? I realize that a TM drive really doesn't need a lot of speed but I'm just curious.

Secondly, what are other people connecting to their computer via the ASD USB-C ports? Any speed lag?

 

[jz0309]

My new M2 Mini & ASD are working fine so far.... Yay! I do have two question about the USB-C ports on the ASD.

If I connected my Time Machine drive (Samsung T7 1TB) to one of the ports on the ASD is the read/write speed affected? I realize that a TM drive really doesn't need a lot of speed but I'm just curious.

Secondly, what are other people connecting to their computer via the ASD USB-C ports? Any speed lag?

Apple spec says up to 10Gbps which I believe is USB 3.2, so you backup will be fine.
I have a lightning and an AW charging cable attached as I backup my iPhone to my Mac Studio and need to put watch on charger for upgrades. For everything else I use the TB ports on my Mac Studio

 

[xraydoc]

My new M2 Mini & ASD are working fine so far.... Yay! I do have two question about the USB-C ports on the ASD.

If I connected my Time Machine drive (Samsung T7 1TB) to one of the ports on the ASD is the read/write speed affected? I realize that a TM drive really doesn't need a lot of speed but I'm just curious.

Secondly, what are other people connecting to their computer via the ASD USB-C ports? Any speed lag?

Speed is ok as far as I can tell. I had my T7 Shield plugged in to one of my ASDs and seemed just as fast as when connected directly.

 

[tstafford]

I have a Studio so most of my stuff is plugged in directly. I use two of the USB-C on one ASD (Logitech unifying receiver and a BT speaker simply for charging). I've never had any issues with the keyboard seeming laggy or anything.

Just confirming - you are using a TB3 cable with the ASD, correct? A USB-C will drive the display fine but you won't get as fast data transfer speeds on the USB-C ports. (The cable that comes with the ASD is TB3.)

 

[Sonoran49]

I have a Studio so most of my stuff is plugged in directly. I use two of the USB-C on one ASD (Logitech unifying receiver and a BT speaker simply for charging). I've never had any issues with the keyboard seeming laggy or anything.

Just confirming - you are using a TB3 cable with the ASD, correct? A USB-C will drive the display fine but you won't get as fast data transfer speeds on the USB-C ports. (The cable that comes with the ASD is TB3.)

Yes, I am using the supplied TB cable that came with the ASD

 

[xraydoc]

Yes, I am using the supplied TB cable that came with the ASD

You should be good. I've had no issues with connected devices. Got 950+ Mb/sec with a D-Link USB-C ethernet adapter connected to my ASD. No issues with my T7 Shield drive.

Currently I only have a mouse RF dongle and my USB keyboard plugged in to my main Studio Display which is then plugged directly into one of my 14" MBP's left hand TB4 ports.

My second Studio Display is connected through a CalDigit TS4 dock (which also has ethernet, audio, the T7 Shield and a DVD-R drive attached to it), connected to the second left hand side TB4 ports.

I was running everything through a single TB4 port, but wanted to see if there was any visible picture quality improvement (less display compression) by running each display off a separate TB4 channel instead of both together along with everything else. I think maybe there is, but could just be some preselection bias.