[SOLVED] Do spinning hard drives benefit from Thunderbolt 3

[jlormsby]

Will a 3.5" 7200 rpm hard drive benefit from being put in a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure vs a USB 3 enclosure. I'm not talking RAID, just individual drives. I know the theoretical limits of USB 3.0, 3.1, & Thunderbolt 3 but I don't know if a regular spinning hard drive would even take advantage of those speeds.

 

[Math Geek]

not even close. the spinning drive did not saturate the sata connection or even the ide connection they once used. take a look at the read/write speeds the drive advertises and compare that to the speeds the thunderbolt connection can hit. very small %

so no real reason to do it other than to say you did

 

[jlormsby]

Thanks for the input. Kind of what I expected but trying to figure best way to transition 2 spinning drives and 2 SSD's from a Mac Pro to a new Mac mini.