Samsung T5 as an external SSD for iMac Pro?

[mikehalloran]

I would word it differently. The term SSD is generally refers to the package, which consists of the semiconductor cells, their associated support circuitry which could be a RAID configuration, controller, and then the interface. The interface could be PCIE, NVME, or whatever. The term "SSD" can mean a lot of things.

The fastest one I know is the Lqid HoneyBadger, which can be sized up to 32 TB, and runs up to 24 GB/s. That is BYTES/s, not BITS/s! One of the investors in Liqid is Phison which makes SSD controllers. Couldn't find the price, likely that of a nice car.

Liqid to Demonstrate Element LQD4500 PCIe 4.0 x16 SSD: 32 TB At Up to 24 GB/s

www.anandtech.com

And what in the world makes you think that would be faster with an iMac Pro than a Samsung X5 or OWC Envoy Pro? Please be specific.

 

[HDFan]

And what in the world makes you think that would be faster with an iMac Pro than a Samsung X5 or OWC Envoy Pro? Please be specific.

It wouldn't. An iMac Pro doesn't have a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface. Both the devices you mentioned run at close to the max bus speed supported. [I have the OWC].

I was responding to:

SSD's, while once thought really fast, are much slower and the 400-500MBs is about right.

 

[mikehalloran]

It wouldn't. An iMac Pro doesn't have a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface. Both the devices you mentioned run at close to the max bus speed supported. [I have the OWC].

I was responding to:

I figured you knew but weren't being clear — and on that note:

SSD means Solid State Drive, that's all it means and nothing else. There are many ways to break it down further such as SATA III SSD with a theoretical maximum around 550 R/W (no matter what the marketing departments say). There are fast NVMe 3 x4 blades rated around 3500 (yes, yes, real world is 2800–3000…) and slow, inexpensive NVMe 3 x4 blades such as the P1 and 660p, rated around 2000 making them perfect for replacing AHCI blades (900 in Apple's dreams) in 2013–2014 Macs and the Mac Pro 6.1 where max performance of the NVMe x2 bus is around 1500 (and real world is 1300). All are SSDs.

HDDs are mechanical Hard Disk Drives.

This doesn't work if we aren't all speaking the same language. Imposing our own definitions only confuses people.