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Originally Posted by screature  |
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Geesh I need to read more carefully today...
Sorry guys I even read the wrong section of the Apple site. But the non retinas do have two USB 3.0 ports so having external drives is not an issue with the TB port being taken up by the monitor... a bit of a waste but not strictly a limitation requiring daisy chaining of the TB port. |
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USB3 is certainly much better than 2.0, but it's still lagging behind the storage technologies connected to it. Even with an SSD in an enclosure, USB3 maxes out at around 125MB/s. Thunderbolt should allow the full 500 MB/s the drive is capable of (I will find out when my cable arrives...)
When working on video projects or Aperture libraries on an external drive, the difference would be significant.
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