

With the qualification of Monterey 12.3 we will no longer be testing macOS Mojave, however it is expected to work at this time. Please see Avid HD Driver Installation on macOS for more info.

When using HD Native PCIe installed in a supported Thunderbolt 3 chassis and connected to a Thunderbolt 4/USB 4 port of a supported Mac, it is possible to encounter continuous AAE -9093 errors. 64-bit Intel Core Processor (i3/2 Ghz or faster recommended) M1 or Intel Core 2 Duo Processor (i5 or faster recommended) Do you see the max Read speed is just a bit over the max of the 3.0 spec so are you really gaining that much? Nope! The limitation of the SSD is holding back what the USB-C connection can offer.⚠️ Latest Pro Tools Compatibility Notes ⚠️ Pro Tools Intro Minimum System Requirements

Here’s a good review Samsung T5 SSD - speed test with 2013 Mac Pro (USB3.0) and MacBook Pro (USB3.1) Now keep in mind the max throughput of USB 3.0 I posted above and now just to the time point 5:30 to see the graph in the video. 480 Mbit/s (60MB/s) which is a 10X improvement.
The theoretical transfer speed of USB 3.0 is 4.8 Gbit/s (600MB/s) vs. I have a few of these Samsung drives which are quite good! It offers a proper USB A 3.0 interface, as such it will given you the full data rate the SSD can offer! I get Read speeds of 4.5 Gbit/s (560 MB/s) on 2012 & 2015 15” MacBook Pro’s Think of it this way a water pipe can’t serve cooking gas as well can it. I have not seen any other type of adapter and the system won’t have the needed logic to support the USB dialog via the TB port. The adapter Apple offers is the other way around Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter so people who buy a newer system can use their older drives. Sadly, there is no adapter to allow you to use USB devices on the older Thunderbolt 2 ports your system has.
