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How well do USB 3 SSDs work on a Thunderbolt hub?

How well do USB 3.1 Gen 2 SSDs mix with Thunderbolt 3 SSDs when connected to the same Thunderbolt 4 hub?

April 18, 2023 Macs, Technology

How connecting your SSD to a Thunderbolt hub can slow it to a crawl

In the worst case, an expensive TB3 SSD with a regular write speed of 2.2 GB/s could only write at 400 MB/s when connected via a hub and contending with faster SSDs.

March 20, 2023 Macs, Technology

What’s the overhead of using APFS encryption?

Is the performance overhead of using APFS Encrypted volumes to store sensitive data a reason for not doing so?

March 3, 2023 Macs, Technology

Thunderbolt 4 hub performance with 3 SSDs

What happens to read and write speeds of three SSDs connected to the same hub, and working at the same time? Can they exceed the maximum of 3 GB/s?

February 27, 2023 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Complexities of Thunderbolt hubs

If you have more than a couple of Thunderbolt peripherals, should you be thinking of getting a Thunderbolt 4 hub?

February 26, 2023 Macs, Technology

It pays to be a winner: How a fast SSD can slow others down

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What happens when you connect two fast SSDs to your Mac and they both write or read at the same time? How do they perform when connected through a hub? And how does it pay to be a winner?

February 22, 2023 Macs, Technology

Thunderbolt 4 hubs can slow down fast SSDs

You pay hundreds of $$ for a high-speed Thunderbolt SSD, then connect it to a hub. Will it still deliver the same performance? Maybe not when writing.

February 21, 2023 Macs, Technology

Do Thunderbolt hubs impair performance?

Do fast Thunderbolt SSDs slow down when connected via a Thunderbolt hub? How fast are they when reading at the same time? Does connecting a display affect them?

January 26, 2023 Macs, Technology

Virtualisation on Apple silicon Macs: 1 How well does it work?

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Lightweight virtualisation has come to Apple silicon Macs. How well does it work, though? Are there any significant limitations?

July 4, 2022 Macs, Technology

How hard disks get slower as they fill up

File data stored towards the periphery of the disk is read and written nearly twice as fast as that near the centre. How to take advantage of this.

May 17, 2022 Macs, Technology

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