tzeshan

There is a Microsoft store in the same mall where it has an Apple store. After macOS Catalina requires 64 bit applications. My 2009 Microsoft Windows Office won't run. I went to the store inquiring for options. The employee told me I can have a $99/year subscription to the Windows Office. I paid only $25 through company deal with Microsoft promotion. Of course this subscription won't go. Recently I discovered Page, Numbers can work with Windows Office files. My old documents can survive! I happily update macOS Catalina finally. Now I am waiting for Big Sur and planning on buying an Arm-based MacBook Pro. I am happy with Apple!

I keep car key in pocket. I grab door handle. The car lets me pull the handle to open. Can CarKey do this? 

cia said:

tzeshan said:

cia said:

First off, in regards to speed, this is a SATA III drive.  The SATA III bus is the limiting factor for speeds, not the drive.  

Second, this drive uses MLC, which allows it to provide those peak speeds over very long writes.  TLC is great and cheap, but when you are copying large files (Example, 2 hours of ProRes video in one file, is about 122 gig) TLC based drives will hit bottlenecks and slow down.  TLC has limits that most users don't ever see.  MLC (and even better, SLC) handles stuff like this better.

This is a "pro" drive for pro users who are still using SATAIII based machines.

If you don't read/write hundreds and hundreds of GB every day, you don't need this drive, buy a cheaper SSD and you won't notice the difference.   

I have an NVME PCI card in my MacPro, but also have a cheap $20 SATA III card in there too, this drive will work well in my video workflow as a 1080p live video record drive.

Thanks for the info? Is TLC suitable for Time Machine backup?

Literally anything (even old slow cheap massive spinning drives) is fine for Time Machine backups.  I personally use a Western Digital 8TB spinning disk USB3 external drive for my Time Machine Backups.  I paid maybe $100 for it.

I use a G-drive. But it takes too much time. 

cia said:

First off, in regards to speed, this is a SATA III drive.  The SATA III bus is the limiting factor for speeds, not the drive.  

Second, this drive uses MLC, which allows it to provide those peak speeds over very long writes.  TLC is great and cheap, but when you are copying large files (Example, 2 hours of ProRes video in one file, is about 122 gig) TLC based drives will hit bottlenecks and slow down.  TLC has limits that most users don't ever see.  MLC (and even better, SLC) handles stuff like this better.

This is a "pro" drive for pro users who are still using SATAIII based machines.

If you don't read/write hundreds and hundreds of GB every day, you don't need this drive, buy a cheaper SSD and you won't notice the difference.   

I have an NVME PCI card in my MacPro, but also have a cheap $20 SATA III card in there too, this drive will work well in my video workflow as a 1080p live video record drive.

Thanks for the info? Is TLC suitable for Time Machine backup?

What is the issue he needs Apple Store to fix?