{"id":213,"date":"2021-01-03T15:21:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T15:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2023-03-11T19:03:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T19:03:56","slug":"adata-xpg-sx8200-pro-benchmark-on-m1-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/2021-01\/adata-xpg-sx8200-pro-benchmark-on-m1-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro Benchmark on M1 Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As mentioned in my <a href=\"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/2020-12\/nvme-to-usb-on-m1-mac\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"208\">pervious post<\/a>, I recently got an M1 Mac mini with an external NVMe disk for additional storage. In that post, I said Thunderbolt (as opposed to USB 3.1) enclosures are prohibitively expensive. While they are certainly more expensive, there are some out there at a reasonable price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got my hands on one (with a JHL6340 chip) and did a speed test to compare it with USB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Blackmagic \u2013 ASM2362 USB 3.1<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/images\/ADATA_XPG_SX8200_Pro_-_ASM2362_USB_-_Blackmagic_cropped.png\" alt=\"Write: 825.8MB\/s, Read: 819.9MB\/s\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Blackmagic \u2013 JHL6340 Thunderbolt<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/images\/ADATA_XPG_SX8200_Pro_-_JHL6340_Thunderbolt_-_Blackmagic_cropped.png\" alt=\"Write: 851.6MB\/s, Read: 1479.5MB\/s\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Amorphous \u2013 ASM2362 USB 3.1<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/images\/ADATA_XPG_SX8200_Pro_-_ASM2362_USB_-_Amorphous.png\" alt=\"Write: 850.64MB\/s, Read: 896.05MB\/s\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Amorphous \u2013 JHL6340 Thunderbolt<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/images\/ADATA_XPG_SX8200_Pro_-_JHL6340_Thunderbolt_-_Amorphous.png\" alt=\"Write: 1362.88MB\/s, Read: 1575.47MB\/s\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>A note on USB with Mac mini<\/h2>\n<p>As described by Apple in the Mac mini specs page, the port you use is im<strong>port<\/strong>ant <em>(sorry!)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"title\">Two <strong>Thunderbolt \/ USB\u00a04 ports<\/strong> with support\u00a0for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DisplayPort<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thunderbolt\u00a03 (up to 40Gb\/s)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>USB\u00a03.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb\/s)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Thunderbolt\u00a02, HDMI, DVI and VGA supported using adapters (sold separately)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Two USB-A ports (up to 5Gb\/s)<\/strong><br \/>HDMI\u00a02.0 port<br \/>Gigabit Ethernet port<br \/>3.5mm headphone jack<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The USB-A ports only support up to 5Gb\/s which means whether you are using a USB 3.1 enclosure or a Thunderbolt enclosure you need to connect it to one of the <em>&#8220;Thunderbolt \/ USB 4&#8221;<\/em> ports to achieve 10-40Gb\/s. I did verify with a speed test, and you can only achieve circa 500MB\/s with a USB-A port (and in fact macOS tells you the connection speed in <em>System Information<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in my pervious post, I recently got an M1 Mac mini with an external NVMe disk for additional storage. In that post, I said Thunderbolt (as opposed to USB 3.1) enclosures are prohibitively expensive. While they are certainly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/2021-01\/adata-xpg-sx8200-pro-benchmark-on-m1-mac\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[18,20,19],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-macos","tag-nvme","tag-thunderbolt","tag-usb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}