I want to buy an external ssd Samsung T3 and everywhere on You tube there are speed test showing around 400 MB s on read and write when testing it on usb c 3.1gen 2. Iam curious what the real speed would be when connecting it to my older usb 3.0 port on my motherboard.
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Will external ssd be slower with Usb 3.0 than with usb c 3.1 gen 2?
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Theoretical bandwidth is 625 MB/s...here is what you are after... https://www.everythingusb.com/speed.html
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