Originally Posted By: Simon - PG Music
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We ship the Audiophile on a 2tb USB 3.0 hard drive. No need to make it a 3.1 or 3.2, because hard drives are not fast enough to need a faster connection than that - currently the fastest hard drive in the world transfers at 524mb/sec while the USB3.0 spec is 625mb/sec).

Although the Audiophile version does not ship on the fastest HHD in the world (in fact, it's pretty slow compared to many others around 230mb/sec), it doesn't really matter. SATA III SSDs are a touch slower than USB 3, too. The fastest ones have real world R/W around 560mb/sec.

I've done a lot of testing to see if there was a difference between running BIAB Audiophile on a SATA III SSD and the supplied HDD. Yes, there is but the differences are measured in seconds. Running it entirely on the internal SSD pair on my iMac Pro (over 4Kmb/sec) is faster still but again, the difference is measured in seconds. Audio does not need blazing speed. AV/video, OTOH… well that's a whole 'nother story.

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