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M1 Thunderbolt ports don’t fully support USB 3.1 Gen 2

It’s limited to 5 Gb/s, giving read rates of about 400 MB/s and writes at about 430 MB/s. Fine for Time Machine backups, but bad with NVMe drives.
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Apr 18, 2022M1 Thunderbolt ports don’t fully support USB 3.1 Gen 2 by ingve272318

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