The 16-inch MacBook Pro, introduced in November 2019, features a larger 16-inch Retina display, slimmer bezels, an updated keyboard with a scissor mechanism instead of a butterfly mechanism, up to 64GB RAM, up to 8TB of storage, and AMD Radeon Pro 5000M Series graphics cards. TypePrice Range (starts at)MacBook$1,300MacBook Air 13-inch$999MacBook Pro 13-inch$1,299MacBook Pro 15-inch$1,999MacBook Pro 13-inch$1,499 With the same 13-inch display found on the smaller MacBook Pro and the same internals, you might wonder why this is the one we recommend the most. However, not because it's the most feature-packed Mac on the market. But with all these drives, real world speeds are somewhat lower due to overhead.Īll in all I agree with Marc G that the article demonstrates technical and editorial sloppiness.The MacBook Air (M1, 2020) is the best Mac of the year. In tests it does about 925MB/sec for both read and write. Incidentally, the one I bought is an Oyen Digital Helix Dura, a long slim NVMe USB-C drive not mentioned in the article. And if they had actually been tested, it would have been more obvious that a drive mentioned simply wouldn't work with an iPad. I am also disappointed that the article didn't involve real-world tests, since actual results often vary from what the manufacturer claims. Any drive around 500MB/sec is limited by SATA, any drive around 1000MB/sec is NVMe limited to the 10Gb/sec of USB 3.2 Gen 2, and any drive well above 1000GB/sec is NVMe using Thunderbolt 3 and not appropriate to mention in this article. It's pretty clear how the transfer rates break down in the article. This same mistake was made by commenter Seanismorris above, recommending a Samsung X5 which is Thunderbolt-only, good luck with that on your iPad. You can use it on a Mac, but this article is about iPads. Sure enough, I looked up the Glyph Atom Pro and it is Thunderbolt 3 only. This newer version of this drive has 2800 megabytes per second read speeds and 2600 megabytes per second write speeds.' Now hold on here.those speeds are twice what is possible on an iPad Pro, if I'm right that the iPad Pro supports 10Gb/sec USB 3.2 Gen 2. The article says 'For those who are looking for more, there is also the Glyph Atom SSD Pro. And they may work with different iPads using a Lightning to USB adapter. We have all the transfer speeds listed in the article.

What are the transfer speeds of the drives? Will they work with other ipads, such as mini 5?

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