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by fweimer 1025 days ago
And USB 2.0 tops out at about 200 GiB per hour. It's not actually slow.
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The maximum net transfer rate is around 43 MB/s in practice. That’s more like 150 GB/h. Not very convenient for backing up an iPhone. With current storage sizes, it could take multiple hours.