Found one amazon, and it seems to send to NZ as well, profit!
https://www.amazon.com/Transcend-256GB-Thunderbolt-StoreJet-TS256GSJM500/dp/B00NV9LSGW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479860378&sr=8-1&keywords=thunderbolt+ssd#customerReviews
dude, usb3 enclosure is backwards compatible. It may not give you USB3 speed but it is still faster than a USB2 enclosure.
a decent 500gb ssd is ~$180 nzd. just open up and replace the hdd
dryburn: dude, usb3 enclosure is backwards compatible. It may not give you USB3 speed but it is still faster than a USB2 enclosure. a decent 500gb ssd is ~$180 nzd. just open up and replace the hdd
Correct me if I am wrong, but usb2 speed is similar(if not less) to the internal disk speed right?
variable: dryburn: dude, usb3 enclosure is backwards compatible. It may not give you USB3 speed but it is still faster than a USB2 enclosure. a decent 500gb ssd is ~$180 nzd. just open up and replace the hdd Correct me if I am wrong, but usb2 speed is similar(if not less) to the internal disk speed right?
USB2 is way lower, (by a factor of at least 10) - Booting off a USB 2 drive will be painfully slow, and will negate any imact of using an SSD
a mid 2011 Imac has a SATA 3 HDD, SATA 3 is 6Gb/s
USB 2 is 480Mb/s
The thunderbolt port is 10Gbs *2 channels
Yeah, that's what I thought, USB2 will be the bottleneck.
yes of course it will be the bottleneck
I was merely saying that
If you have a system which runs only on USB2.
A HDD within a USB2 enclosure and the same HDD within a USB3 enclosure.
You would get better read/write in the USB3 enclosure even on a system that runs only on USB2.
well that has been my experience
