Should I pay for the fastest dock?!

[Eazy Kamikaze]

Hi all,

If I have 3 SSDs that transfer data at 6GB/s, would it change something to buy a USB 3.2 - 10GB/s docking station? Or should I pay 100$ less for the USB 3.0 5GB/s docking station?

Thanks!

 

[LelandHendrix]

I'm going to say you want the 10Gb/sec dock, but not because it will make a tremendous difference in the performance while using a single drive at a time because it won't. Where you may see more difference is when trying to copy between the drives, as with 5Gb bandwidth between the dock and Mac you are immediately saturated while using a single drive.

 

[Eazy Kamikaze]

I'm going to say you want the 10Gb/sec dock, but not because it will make a tremendous difference in the performance while using a single drive at a time because it won't. Where you may see more difference is when trying to copy between the drives, as with 5Gb bandwidth between the dock and Mac you are immediately saturated while using a single drive.

Thanks!