But it's not worth enough to throw a $130 portable SSD at the situation and have to manually eject it every time I grab my computer and dash. Yep, it's nice to be able to isolate the TM resource consumption from the array and watch the backups complete in a fraction of the time. It's more important to me to have the single connection to the dock and networked volumes that can be disconnected with no prep, than to have overly performant TM backups. Yet even with raw performance in favor of the portable SSD by an order of magnitude, I'm probably going return it to Amazon and go back to the array-based TM target. iPerf in a Docker instance writes a little faster at ~115MB/s. Ugh.īlackmagic gets ~100MB/s to an SMB volume on the storage array. So it's running at 20% below the manufacturer spec. I hit the portable SSD with Blackmagic before starting TM yesterday evening. ![]() ![]() Put this directory into List View and sort by ‘Date Modified’, or just search the folder for a file with a. Open the folder within Backups.backupd that is the name of the current Mac which is stuck on preparing. system_profiler shows the connection capable of 10GB/s. Open the Time Machine drive in the Finder and navigate to the Backups.backupd folder. The dock is the Razer TB4 dock and the portable SSD is a SanDisk Extreme connected to one of the dock’s USB-A 3.2 Gen-2 ports.
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