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Tepixyesterday at 7:10 AM3 repliesview on HN

Why does it mention USB 3.2 (i.e. 20 Gbps) at all if it's for Macs? I thought Macs only support 10 Gbps and 40 Gbps, but nothing inbetween?

(which is inconvenient because USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 20 Gbps external SSD cases are much cheaper than USB 4 cases for now).

Also, he is calling a binary a script, which i find suspicious. This task looks like it should have been a script.


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grueztoday at 12:28 AM

>Why does it mention USB 3.2 (i.e. 20 Gbps) at all if [...]

USB-IF in all their wisdom used "USB 3.2" to refer everything from 5 gbps (USB 3.2 Gen 1×1 ) to 20 gbps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0#USB_3.2

gattryesterday at 7:42 AM

On a somewhat related note, I like the IO shield of my new MSI motherboard - the USB ports are tersely labeled "5G", "10G", "40G" (and a few lingering "USB 2.0").

cozzydyesterday at 1:34 PM

One of my pet peeves is when people call a binary a script