HDD for M1 macbook pro?

[amitabhbansal]

Friends i am using m1 macbook pro 512gb, i am using wd and seagate usb 3.0 hdd with it, and i have to use apple dongle/connector everytime to backup files, i have seen there are some usb3 to usbc converter available on amazon, if i use that converter will there be speed difference? And please suggest me a usb c external hdd to use directly with macbook
thanks

 

[mfram]

I use a Western Digital My Passport Ultra. It features a USB-C connection so it will work directly with a USB-C to USB-C cable. Be sure to format the drive to HFS+ before you use it. You aren't going to notice any speed differences with different USB connections on portable hard disk drives. The drives are going to be the bottle neck anyway unless you use an ancient USB1 drive.

 

[coolajami]

If your HDDS are of the spinning type, then the bottleneck in their speed are the HDDs themselves. At best you can get write/read speeds of 200MB/s. By comparison, your Macbook ports has the capacity to support transfer speeds up to 10GB/s, when you're using is as a USB-C ports only, where, if you're using Thunderbolt 3 capable drives, they can transfer up to 40GB/s. Changing cables, usb-c connectors/hubs etc would make no difference.

If you like to improve the speed of your drives, you need to consider buying a new hard drive of SSD type. The cheaper models have a read/write speed of 512Mb/s, where the more expensive one's have transfer speeds up to 2Gb/s. Depending your needs/wallet etc, you may settle for something inbetween. Any SSD drive from a reputable company would do the job for you, just make sure you're happy with their speed and capacity. I'm using a Crucial X8 that has transfer speeds of 1Gb/S and I'm pretty happy with it. Other reputable drives, in no particular order, are the Sandisk Extreme/Extreme Pro, Seagate Barracuda, WD My Passport SSD and Samsung T7.