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Designed for the most demanding needs of photographers and videographers.

The fastest, toughest, and most compatible portable SSD ever with speeds up to 2800MB/s.

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External SSD wish list • Deals on OWC
$220 SAVE $130 = 37.0% Western Digital 16.0TB Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC550 3.5-in… in Storage: Hard Drives	$500 SAVE $75 = 13.0% OWC 1.0TB OWC Atlas Pro SDXC V60 UHS-II Memory Card (2-Pack) in All Other Categories	$680 OWC 2.0TB OWC Atlas Ultra CFexpress 4.0 Type B Memory Card in All Other Categories	$580 OWC 4.0TB OWC Envoy Pro Elektron USB-C Portable NVMe SSD in All Other Categories	$630 OWC 4.0TB OWC Express 1M2 USB4 (40Gb/s) Bus-Powered Portable NVM… in All Other Categories	$2380 OWC 72.0TB OWC ThunderBay 4 Four-Drive Thunderbolt External Stor… in All Other Categories

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$2997 Nikon Z7 II Mirrorless Camera OUT OF STOCK in Cameras: Mirrorless	$2297 Nikon D780 DSLR OUT OF STOCK in Cameras: DSLR	$2997 Nikon D850 DSLR OUT OF STOCK in Cameras: DSLR	$720 ZEISS 32mm f/1.8 Touit Lens for FUJIFILM X OUT OF STOCK in Lenses: Mirrorless	$497 Pentax 70mm f/2.4 HD Pentax DA Limited BACK IN STOCK in Lenses: DSLR

How Fast is USB3 on the MacBook Pro 15"?

2012-07-10 • SEND FEEDBACK |

Related: laptop, MacBook, MacBook Pro, USB

Plenty fast for most everything, and way better than Firewire 800 (which maxed out at 40-80 MB/sec vs ~270 MB/sec for USB3).

Not as fast as an internal SSD, but so what? USB3 will improve my life in the field when making backups of any kind, for overflow storage, etc. Very practical for storage expansion on a MacBook Pro— at home or for travel.