Intended to counter hardware exploits, such as the checkm8 exploit of T2 chips and Thunderspy for Thunderbolt 3, this should prove valuable protection.
USB-C
Armed with just a couple of flashy Thunderbolt NVMe SSDs and his home-made benchmarking app, we discover whether Thunderbolt is any better than USB 3.x.
During the first 11.6 seconds of writing, speed was steady at 2 GB/s, then suddenly dropped to 0.7 GB/s. That’s thermal throttling for you.
M1 Macs don’t support SMART monitoring over USB-C, forcing us to choose between Full Security without SMART, or Reduced Security with SMART support.
Apple wants us to run our Macs at Full Security and not use third-party kernel extensions, but refuses to build S.M.A.R.T. access into USB in macOS.
It has been years coming, but I’ve finally got a Thunderbolt hub/dock which lets me connect more TB3 disks. Was it worth the wait and cost?
How ready are M1 Macs now for general use? There are still problems with docks, external boot disks, and using one external boot disk with multiple Macs.
Big Sur 11.3 progresses support of external bootable disks by M1 Macs, but can still appear flawed and […]
Fast compact external SSDs are prone to thermal throttling. This is demonstrated during tests writing 96 files, when transfer rates fell from 2 GB/s to around 700 MB/s.
How to install macOS on your M1 Mac’s external SSD. But it comes with a snag: you can only install 11.2 and can’t update it to 11.2.1.
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