Bought a fanxiang 1TB External SSD, Up to 2000MB/s, USB-C USB 3.2 Gen SSD

Raymond Lin said:
Gen 2 is 10gbps
2x2 is 20gbps
USB4 is 40gbps with a minimum of 20gbps and 7.5w
Thunderbolt 4 is 40gbps with a minimum of 32gbps and 15w
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I presume most modern motherboards will have at least USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C® ports if not USB 4. My motherboard is top of the range and has both USB 4 and a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C® port.

In which case buying a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C® drive makes sense if you don’t have USB 4. No point buying a USB 4 drive and plugging it into a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C® port.
 
nlel1975 said:
I presume most modern motherboards will have at least USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C® ports if not USB 4. My motherboard is top of the range and has both USB 4 and a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C® port.

In which case buying a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C® drive makes sense if you don’t have USB 4. No point buying a USB 4 drive and plugging it into a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C® port.
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Of course you are going to be bottlenecked by whichever is the slowest component in the chain.

Even though I have TB4 in the back of the Mac Mini, I didn't go for TB4 enclosures but rather USB4. For the smaller 2203 nvme, which I plug into the front ports of my machine, and all those ports are 10gbps so I got enclosures that do thoes speed.
 
I’ve decided to use my 1TB fanxiang USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C® drive as a Time Machine drive which frees up my Crucial X6 2TB. In the TB4 port it performs slightly better than the Crucial but I value the storage capacity over the speed.

I’ve reformatted it as an APFS drive and its now my Time Machine, I’ve reformatted my Crucial as an exFAT. They recommend having a dedicated drive for Time Machine which is at least double the size of the main drive so 1TB is plenty.
 
Well I bought a UGREEN M.2 40Gbps NVMe Enclosure as I had a spare Corsair Force MP510 1.92TB NVMe drive in my Windows 11 PC that I wasn't really using and received it today. Benchmarked it connected to the Mac Mini M4 TB4 port and got this...

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Then I ran a benchmark of the 256GB internal NVMe drive and got this...

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So its about as fast as the internal drive. So I've now got the 1TB fanxiang drive as a Time Machine drive and the 1.92TB NVMe drive in the external enclosure as extra storage. Tried plugging it into my Windows 11 PC USB4 port for a speed test but it wasn't detected.

I've now got the Crucial X6 2TB connected to my Windows 11 PC replacing the 1.92TB NVMe I had in it before.
 
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