![]() ![]() (It is possible to use an HDD as an external M-series startup drive, but the performance will be so poor, even with a 7200 rpm hard drive, you’ll wish you hadn’t.) Erase and format as APFS ![]() Consult this Mac 911 column for more details on the two interfaces and their throughput. You need Thunderbolt 3 or 4 to gain a benefit from the newer NVMe/PCIe interface, which can be several times faster than a SATA SSD, and about two to three times as expensive. ![]() Most inexpensive external drives use a flavor of USB 3 to connect over USB-C and rely on the slower SATA format, which coupled with an SSD is about 10 times faster than a hard disk drive. Fortunately, macOS appears to have matured, and you can use either USB 3.1 or 3.2 or Thunderbolt 3 or 4. With the first versions of macOS that worked on early M-series models, many people found they had to use a native Thunderbolt 3 or 4 drive. ![]()
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