How come my MacBook Pro 16″ has internal SSD speeds of 2800 MB/s Read/Write while my external Samsung T5 SSD only goes up to about 500 MB/s?

Question

How come the difference is so huge? And are there any faster alternatives?

In: Technology

Answer 1

The t5 uses a SATA (3) SSD internally, which sets a cap at the transfer speed between the ssd and the chip between your computer and the ssd at a maximum of 600 megabytes per second (minus protocol overhead, etc).