i lost 1tb since they were mismatched in size (but with identical specs) but gained speeds exceeding 1500mbps r/w which compares extremely favorably with the internal ssd. my ssd drives are both sandisk extreme with a spec’d bandwidth of up to 1000mb/s and using them singly connected to the mini they test (blackmagic/aja) at approx ~750mbps which is well within my expectations.īefore i got the owc hub i raid’d them using the mac utility and raid0 or ‘striped’ raid. i got one of the owc tb4 mini hubs about 3 days ago. This is a 2020 m1 mini using the public beta (build 4) of the monterey os. The forum forced me to start a new thread rather than letting me reply to a pertinent one so sorry if i’ve duplicated.
SHOULD I REMOVE APPS FROM MAC DOCK TO SPEED HOW TO
How to Create an External, Bootable Startup Disk/Drive for an M1 Mac.Are Your Thunderbolt 3 Products Obsolete? Not So Fast….We expect that unless there is some sort of technical hardware issue at the heart of this, Apple will create a firmware fix to resolve the issue. We’re continuing to share all this information with our contacts at Apple. We were going to test our new NewerTech display adapters ( USB-C to HDMI and USB-C to DisplayPort 1.4), but with our testing thus far revealing that the key to a speed boost is that there MUST be a Thunderbolt signal/device connected to the host M1 Mac and not only a USB-C or HDMI signal/device, we figured that proceeding was a moot point. This is a head-scratcher, so we’ll be looking into this further. Sadly, neither of these docking products offered any speed boost to an external drive while following the conditions required above. They are also fully USB4 future compatible. These feature Thunderbolt 4 ports to offer a universal multi-connectivity solution for millions of existing and future Thunderbolt and USB-C computers and devices. Next up to be tested were the popular new Thunderbolt Hub and Thunderbolt Dock.
But, unfortunately, there was no drive speed increase. We were hopeful a low-cost solution to this issue would be our NewerTech HDMI Headless 4K Display Emulator. Note: Thunderbolt-equipped drives get the most significant increase, but USB-C drives have seen up to a 25.8% speed increase as well.
SHOULD I REMOVE APPS FROM MAC DOCK TO SPEED PRO
When using an OWC Envoy Pro EX (Thunderbolt 3) drive connected to an M1 Mac, a USB-C display connected to the OWC Thunderbolt 3 Pro Dock, and the Dock connected to the M1 Mac, there was a 56% write speed increase! The good news here is our Thunderbolt 3 Pro Dock and the Mercury Elite Pro Dock (a unique combination of storage and connectivity) both provide a speed boost.
We wanted to do some additional testing to see what other device configurations might offer a similar speed boost. In our recent post, Get Up to 67% Faster External Drive Performance With Your M1 Mac, we promised to keep looking into the Thunderbolt drive speed issues.