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Can a USB-C dock reduce SSD transfer speeds?
Using a USB-C dock can indeed reduce SSD transfer speeds, as the dock shares a single upstream connection between multiple ports and functions, potentially limiting the available bandwidth for da...
When you connect an NVMe SSD to the dock, its data has to travel through that shared pipe. If the dock uses USB 3.0 internally, the SSD is capped at roughly 5 Gbps (about 500 MB/s in real-world terms) regardless of how fast the drive itself is.