Does any maker sell large (8 TB or larger) spinning desktop hard drives with USB-C ports?

irelandjnr · 03-09-2022 04:33PM #1

All drives I find seem to have SS USB hard drive connectors. I was wondering is there any on the market (8 TB or larger) with USB-C ports on the drive itself? I am aware it is possibly to buy an SS USB to USB-C cable, but I was just wondering my initial question.

smuggler.ie · 04-09-2022 12:50AM

Buy disk separately and this

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ORICO-10Gbps-Drive-Enclosure-External-Clear/dp/B09989HJF6/ref=asc_df_B09989HJF6/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=534746702295&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=32145410613902396&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=20495&hvtargid=pla-1423311539950&psc=1

Bit pointless as you will be limited by HDD speed, unless connector that matters

irelandjnr · 06-09-2022 09:28PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119567877#Comment_119567877

Good point about being limited by the speed of the drive itself. I was considering this as the reason why these large spinning drives do not typically have USB-C connectors, but wasn't sure if this guess was correct.

smuggler.ie · 07-09-2022 06:27PM

As everything in computing - you just push "bottleneck" onto next component.

Having overhead bandwidth on connection is good - read/write will depend on disk now*, but 10Gbps is overkill for HDD.

USB3.0(now called USB3.2gen1) have it covered for real life consumer applications, even with SATA SSD's

*there will be other factors that will effect transfer speed

Does any maker sell large (8 TB or larger) spinning desktop hard drives with USB-C ports?

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