What's the best cable?

[Alpal0301]

Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me with this please.

I have bought an 1TB Crucial P2 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe ssd and enclosure. The enclosure is usb-c, I have a mid 2015 apple MacBook pro. I'm just wondering the best cable to connect it to my MBP ? Do I need a thunderbolt cable and the adapter or is there another way to connect it ? All I'm doing is using to keep files / photos / videos on etc.

Many thanks

 

[DeltaMac]

Why not use USB to connect that external drive? There's no advantage to connecting your USB enclosure to a Thunderbolt port, better choice might be a multi-port hub/dock (which would give you a few more ports) But, you would still connect to USB with your external drive.

 

[Alpal0301]

Why not use USB to connect that external drive? There's no advantage to connecting your USB enclosure to a Thunderbolt port, better choice might be a multi-port hub/dock (which would give you a few more ports) But, you would still connect to USB with your external drive.

Hi thanks for your reply, so I’ll need a usb c to usb cable then ? Just thought maybe I would get faster transfer speeds with TB.

 

[Pakaku]

It's pretty unlikely that you'll be doing anything that needs thunderbolt transfer speeds, assuming the drive can even read/write fast enough. That would be overkill for file transfers. The USB cable should be perfectly fine as long as it's 3.0/3.1

 

[Alpal0301]

It's pretty unlikely that you'll be doing anything that needs thunderbolt transfer speeds, assuming the drive can even read/write fast enough. That would be overkill for file transfers. The USB cable should be perfectly fine as long as it's 3.0/3.1

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[Fishrrman]

"I have bought an 1TB Crucial P2 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe ssd and enclosure"

Please clarify:
Is this a pre-package, "ready-to-use" drive
or
Did you buy the drive and enclosure as "separate components" and assemble them yourself?

If the latter, WHICH ENCLOSURE did you get?

It should be a USB3.1 gen2 enclosure to use the full potential of USB3 and nvme.

A USB3.1 gen2 drive should give you read speeds in the 850-900MBps range, with writes around 750 or so.

If your Mac has USBc ports, then use a USBc cable that is rated for 10gb transfers.
A "high-speed charging cable" ought to do it.
You'll have to check carefully, read user reviews as well.