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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1774824" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>It really doesn't matter. The USB 3.1 spec has a theoretical speed of 10 Gb/s (1250 MB/s) but practically you'll get around 7 Gb/s (875 MB/s)...</p><p></p><p>The read speed of SSDs will be faster than write speeds and so if you have 400 MB/s read and say 250 MB/s writes that means that you'll load things pretty quickly off the drive and go. If you use a regular spinning (7200 RPM) HDD, you're around 130 MB/s read and slower writes. This just means that things will work more slowly, but still work.</p><p></p><p>I used an external SSD in the past to run Windows through VMWare Fusion and that worked totally fine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1774824, member: 110816"] It really doesn't matter. The USB 3.1 spec has a theoretical speed of 10 Gb/s (1250 MB/s) but practically you'll get around 7 Gb/s (875 MB/s)... The read speed of SSDs will be faster than write speeds and so if you have 400 MB/s read and say 250 MB/s writes that means that you'll load things pretty quickly off the drive and go. If you use a regular spinning (7200 RPM) HDD, you're around 130 MB/s read and slower writes. This just means that things will work more slowly, but still work. I used an external SSD in the past to run Windows through VMWare Fusion and that worked totally fine. [/QUOTE]
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