Portable SSD what kind of speeds would I get when transfering data ?

[River]

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With the top cable. From normal USB end or whatever it is to USB c type end ?

I know the box says up to 2000 MB/sec but that is just marketing.

This would be from a Synology DS 220+ to the portable SSD

[emoticorpse]

I got an Inland brand 1TB portable SSD that has a USB-C connection to USB (I think that's the original cable it shipped with but don't remember). Actual data transfer it goes like 300-375 MB (Megabytes) a second with big files. I don't think I've tried small files yet.

[mtono]

usb - c can support from 480 mbit to 10 gbit ( 60 mb/s to 1.250 mb/s)...
i just asked microsoft copilot.
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[Crawl]

It depends a lot on a number of factors from usb type, drive type, file size, etc.

In the case of your NAS, assuming you have mechanical drives in it, the actual drives are going to be your limiting factor. You'll probably be in the neighborhood of 100MB/sec.

For reference on my laptop using a USB 3.2 Gen 2 port and copying a 7GB file from a local NVMe to external SSD I get around 350MB/sec. Copying that same file from the external SSD to the NVMe it was 540MB/sec. I did the same transfer to a NVMe in an external enclosure that transfer was about 700MB/sec in both directions.

[nullable]

Originally posted by gamer:

https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/6559/6559268cv20d.jpg;maxHeight=2000;maxWidth=2000

With the top cable. From normal USB end or whatever it is to USB c type end ?

I know the box says up to 2000 MB/sec but that is just marketing.

This would be from a Synology DS 220+ to the portable SSD

You can get up to 2,000MB. However you'd have to have the drive plugged into a USB 3.2 SuperSpeed+ port that's running at 20Gbits.

If your port is slower, say 5gbit, you'd top out at less than 640MB. If you were plugging the drive into USB A (classic rectangle) assuming it was still USB 3.1/3.2 you're looking at 67-137MB.

And there's other variables too. There is a circumstance where you could hit 2,000MB. But if you're not using the newest fastest USB-C on your system you're going to be going a lot slower because of the limitations of USB-A or USB 3.0/3.1 or USB-C that's not 20Gbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0#3.2

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by secret_agent_man:

usb - c can support from 480 mbit to 10 gbit ( 60 mb/s to 1.250 mb/s)...
i just asked microsoft copilot.
byebye

That's not always true.

Just cause something has Type-C one end doesn't mean much if the other end is Type-A. It would have to be connected to at least USB 3.1 or 3.2 to get the higher speeds.

[mtono]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Originally posted by secret_agent_man:

usb - c can support from 480 mbit to 10 gbit ( 60 mb/s to 1.250 mb/s)...
i just asked microsoft copilot.
byebye

That's not always true.

Just cause something has Type-C one end doesn't mean much if the other end is Type-A. It would have to be connected to at least USB 3.1 or 3.2 to get the higher speeds.

i was searching the internet for a solution with microsoft copilot chat software (KI). i own no usb-c device, so i cant test the thing by myself. i dont want to be offensive. i am sorry.
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[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by secret_agent_man:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

That's not always true.

Just cause something has Type-C one end doesn't mean much if the other end is Type-A. It would have to be connected to at least USB 3.1 or 3.2 to get the higher speeds.

i was searching the internet for a solution with microsoft copilot chat software (KI). i own no usb-c device, so i cant test the thing by myself. i dont want to be offensive. i am sorry.
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This is what I mean about people helping on forums. You either know this from actual real-world experience, or you do not. Online searching results are going to be hit/miss... a large batch of mix-matched info that's not going to be very definitive.

[mtono]

thanks for your answer.
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[Bad 💀 Motha]

Since the OP will be transferring data from a Synology DS 220+ to an SSD. Then the transfer speeds can only go as fast as the slowest drive(s). The chosen SSD is plenty fast, if used via USB 3.1 or 3.2 ~ However I'm not sure how fast the drives are within your Synology DS 220+ and that is what's going to determine the max transfer speeds here.

[mtono]

i see

[A&A]

These days, most motherboards have at least one very fast USB-C slot. However, even if yours doesn't, you should have at least USB 3.1 Gen2 or USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 and both have a transfer speed of 10 Gbit/s or 1250 MB/s. In practice, though, it's likely that the real transfer speed will be around 1000-1100 MB/s.

[r.linder]

Synology DS220+ Datasheet[global.download.synology.com]

"DS220+ is a 2-bay desktop NAS designed for fast data sharing and
management. It newly features dual 1GbE LAN ports to support network
failover, and with Link Aggregation enabled, DS220+ provides over 225
MB/s sequential read and 192 MB/s sequential write1 throughput.
Data can be further protected with RAID 1 disk mirroring to prevent
sudden drive failure."

I don't know much of anything about NAS, but that's what it says on the datasheet. If that's somehow the absolute limit of what it can handle, then it won't really matter what SSD you use because the DS220+ itself is the main bottleneck for transfer speed.

[River]

You all are right.

From the Synology DS220+ speed was ok fast but no more than 160 MB/sec to 170MB/sec

Now the real amazing part, which is obvious, going from internal SSD to external SSD speed was amazing! 1 GB/sec + sometimes up to 2 to 3 GB/sec + :o

Makes me want to make my data drives in my pc SSD only even if only sata ssds.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by gamer:

You all are right.

From the Synology DS220+ speed was ok fast but no more than 160 MB/sec to 170MB/sec

Now the real amazing part, which is obvious, going from internal SSD to external SSD speed was amazing! 1 GB/sec + sometimes up to 2 to 3 GB/sec + :o

Makes me want to make my data drives in my pc SSD only even if only sata ssds.

That's because the NAS has mechanical HDDs inside.

So yea only way you're going to get those SSD transfer speeds is when connected to a PC where it has NVME SSDs as internal storage and you are doing data transfers to that external ssd. Again as long as that external ssd is connected to a usb port that supports such speeds.

Why wouldn't your PCs all have SSDs inside? It's 2024, not 2004.

[mtono]

my comment: a faster external ssd is good. system can change. if you know what i mean?
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