https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/thunderbolt-vs-usb-raid-enclosures-reliabilty/ SoftRAID Discussion Board en-US Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:04:48 +0000 wpForo 60 https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/thunderbolt-vs-usb-raid-enclosures-reliabilty/#post-4062 Fri, 03 Jan 2020 03:44:43 +0000 Hardware Compatibility SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/thunderbolt-vs-usb-raid-enclosures-reliabilty/#post-4062 https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/thunderbolt-vs-usb-raid-enclosures-reliabilty/#post-4059 Thu, 02 Jan 2020 21:50:42 +0000 Thunderbolt is both faster and more reliable than USB. In Mac OS in particular, there are USB issues that allow corrupted memory to be written to the protected area of a disk, damaging the volume. USB is much slower with any RAID especially RAID 5 (40-50% slower). I would not consider USB for anything but casual backups, not for serious data storage. Can you please advise whether this is true for the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad USB enclosures as well? When I initially purchased, I had thought it was TB3 (USB-C), but subsequently realized it is "TB3 compatible" as USB 3.1 GEN2 (10Gbps). Any potential difference in reliability which might guide which drives I put in my TB enclosures vs USB 3G2 enclosures? Many thanks in advance, -Phil]]> Hardware Compatibility Philiplh88 https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/thunderbolt-vs-usb-raid-enclosures-reliabilty/#post-4059 https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/thunderbolt-vs-usb-raid-enclosures-reliabilty/#post-3521 Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:34:58 +0000 Hardware Compatibility Standpoint Media https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/thunderbolt-vs-usb-raid-enclosures-reliabilty/#post-3521 https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/thunderbolt-vs-usb-raid-enclosures-reliabilty/#post-3511 Thu, 25 Jul 2019 16:33:39 +0000 Hardware Compatibility SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/thunderbolt-vs-usb-raid-enclosures-reliabilty/#post-3511 https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/thunderbolt-vs-usb-raid-enclosures-reliabilty/#post-690 Thu, 25 Jul 2019 12:41:51 +0000 Hardware Compatibility Standpoint Media https://forums.softraid.com/hardware-compatibility/thunderbolt-vs-usb-raid-enclosures-reliabilty/#post-690