José Herring
Lost in Cyberspace
Anybody using external drives for sample streaming? If so how are you connected? Are you using Ethernet or Thunderbolt or USB3, ect?
Multidock is great because you can yank and swap drives like they were cassette tapes. BUT it is only SATA and thus is limited to around 500mb/sec per drive. More recent NVME / m2 drives are MUCH faster, but also way more expensive - and they are raw "blade" style drives that basically look like memory sticks, so not really hot swappable.
Multidock is great because you can yank and swap drives like they were cassette tapes. BUT it is only SATA and thus is limited to around 500mb/sec per drive. More recent NVME / m2 drives are MUCH faster, but also way more expensive - and they are raw "blade" style drives that basically look like memory sticks, so not really hot swappable.
I stream SATA SSDs connected via USB3 to a Thunderbolt 3 hub that is connected to my iMac via TB2. I’ve never had an issue with streaming with this set up.