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goneeuro02

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Good afternoon everyone. I bought and external NVMe and enclosure and I am not getting the speeds I thought I would. Does this sound right with what I am using?

2020 M1 13in MacBook Pro, 16GB of RAM, 500GB, 8core CPU, 8core GPU

Insignia USB3.2 Gen2 M.2 NVMe SSD enclosure

WD_Black SN770 1TB

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Looks about right to me. As a matter of fact, that looks really good for a cheap USB-C enclosure. The enclosure specs point out that it is a 10 gbps USB-C port. So the absolute theoretical max for data transfer would be around 1000 MB/s. You're getting 75-80% of that absolute max which sounds right to me. I have an external San Disk SSD USB-C drive which gets around 650 MB/s. So count yourself lucky. What filesystem are you using on this drive? That might make a difference. What were you expecting?
 
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Yeah, to go much faster you need proper thunderbolt enclosure.

I have heard that the Apple implementation does not tend to max out the bus on SSD's for USB, so this is probably about as good as can expect from USB.
 
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Perfect, thanks. That is what I was kinda thinking but was hoping for a second opinion.
 
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