[geeks] Q about USB 3.0 vs Thunderbolt interface on Mac Mini

[Ben Greisler]

Also remember that USB of any flavor will have a certain amount of overhead
that T-Bolt wonbt and can be impacted by how busy the CPU is. Still, I agree
that a single spinning disk wonbt be bogged down by much under USB 3.0. It
would have been more noticeable under USB 2.

Ben Greisler




> On Dec 17, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> Yesterday I was at my local big box retailer looking for an external drive
for
>> my Mac Mini. Being a fairly recent model it has both USB 3.0 and
Thunderbolt
>> interfaces, but I wasn't sure if there was an actual benefit to having a
>> spinning HD on the faster Thunderbolt interface - thoughts?
>
> Spinning HD (single) no ... multiple in a RAID setup, maybe, and solid
> state, certainly.
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