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iPad Pro iPad Pro 2021 + Samsung T7 SSD?
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Clover Hater
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how did you measure so precisely? there is no app to speed test external drives
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rui no onna
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Ok, it seemed extremely precise for that, anyway I think the same speed should apply to A12X/Z...(which is 10Gb/s) Based on many reviews, TB3 speeds are still not enabled on iPadOS 14
rui no onna
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Not necessarily. Unless you get perfectly divisible numbers, you're bound to get fractions/decimals.
With that said, the T7 itself is limited to 1GB/s so not a particularly good test for TB3.
It is a affordable small USB 3.2 gen 2 SSD. Question is how it is performing on the iPad Pro 2021.
Ok, I tried myself:
Transferring a 5GB file to the iPad: 16 seconds
Transferring a 5GB file to the SSD: 2 minutes and 19 seconds.
🙁
Ordered a USB 4.0 cable now
Transferring a 5GB file to the iPad: 16 seconds
Transferring a 5GB file to the SSD: 2 minutes and 19 seconds.
🙁
Ordered a USB 4.0 cable now
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Yes, APFS formatted it can reach up to 400 MB/s without data loss.
NickRno77
macrumors 6502
I formatted the T7 to APFS this afternoon,
copying 10gb of video files from T7 to iPad.
ExFat = 20secs
APFS = 15secs
copying 10gb of video files from iPad to T7
ExFat = 1min 50secs
APFS = 27secs
I now don’t need ExFat as i have no need to plug into to a Windows PC so all is fairly good for me, i expect the speed results will be even quicker doing the same test on my iMac Mini M1 ?
maybe there will be more to come wit IPadOS 15?
Clover Hater should have added “ I DONT REPLY TO QUESTIONS I COMMENTED ON” 😂
akdj
macrumors 65816
I’m sorry to bring this back up but you guys’ speeds are insane
I’m transferring five videos - 2 @ 4K (9.5-10GB) 2 @ 1080 (3.5GB) and 1 @ iPhone standard size @ about 1.5-2GB. Total of 25GB from the M1 12.9” iPad Pro 2TB to a 2TB Samsung T-7.
It took 16 minutes!!!
That seems insane looking at your digits but it’s formatted ExFat - no clue the difference would be that significant.
I’m going to have to reformat and move everything off in mirror to a different drive to wipe it.
That’s brutal because it holds a 1TB+ music and video library folder - the main iTunes or Music folder
That’s the only way to reformat, right? I can’t just reformat with the data already on the drive right?
Ugh
I’m transferring five videos - 2 @ 4K (9.5-10GB) 2 @ 1080 (3.5GB) and 1 @ iPhone standard size @ about 1.5-2GB. Total of 25GB from the M1 12.9” iPad Pro 2TB to a 2TB Samsung T-7.
It took 16 minutes!!!
That seems insane looking at your digits but it’s formatted ExFat - no clue the difference would be that significant.
I’m going to have to reformat and move everything off in mirror to a different drive to wipe it.
That’s brutal because it holds a 1TB+ music and video library folder - the main iTunes or Music folder
That’s the only way to reformat, right? I can’t just reformat with the data already on the drive right?
Ugh
rui no onna
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I think it might. I remember seeing some tests showing faster transfer speeds on APFS vs exFAT.
rui no onna
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Apparently, the benchmarks I saw were right on this thread (just a few posts up). Doing the math, it’s 4x speed.
Yeah I guess we can say it's part of the exFAT anomaly with iPadOS... Which is a shame since this is supposed to be multi-platform file system (iOS, MacOS, Windows, Android). For those locked in the Apple eco-system this might not matter, but for everyone else it's an annoyance...