I'm sure that a faster drive would certainly have a faster speed, at least for file transfers and backups.īy the way, I do not notice any major slow down when I have used either backup drive as a boot Drive using the same connections. The point of my comment is that I discovered the speed of the Thunderbolt Buffalo Drive was barely or even the same speed as the WD Black HDD, but I am assuming that was due to the speed capabilities of the drive itself, rather than the theoretical speed of the Thunderbolt 1 connection which is theoretically an amazing 10 Gbps!!! I also use a Western Digital Black 3.5 in 7200 RPM spinner HDD for the same usage but connected via one of my Firewire 800 ports. I know my 2011 iMac uses older and slower versions of the Thunderbolt connections, but I had similar thoughts years ago when I purchased a 2.5 in Buffalo spinner HDD that I use for Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) backup as well as occasionally using it as a boot drive.
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