Get a SSD drive enclosure with a Thunderbolt 3 interface, like this one.So, I would suggest sticking with a USB 3.0 drive enclosure, especially because your Mac has USB 3.0 ports.īUT, if you’re really obsessed with maxing out the transfer speeds, what you might be able to do, is: In both cases, there’s a point where your max speed is degraded/maxed at 5 Gbps, which is still a fast speed. As we say in the computer world, your transfer speed is only as fast as your slowest link.SSD Enclosure -USB 3.0 Cable (5 Gbps)->USB 3.0 to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter (5 Gbps) -> Thunderbolt 2 Port (Decreased to 5 Gbps).SSD Enclosure -Thunderbolt2 Cable (20 Gbps)->Thunderbolt 2 to USB 3.0 Adapter (5 Gbps) -> USB 3.0 Port (5 Gbps).There’s only two possibilities with USB and Thunderbolt Using an adapter would serve no real purpose to you.This is most likely because of the recent arrival of Thunderbolt 3.0/USB-C I can’t find any hard drive enclosures that use Thunderbolt 2 as their interface.
So, clearly Thunderbolt 2 is faster 4x faster. Understand the desire to have super fast transfer speeds, especially with external drives.
