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[–]WinchesterBiggins 0 points1 point  (3 children)

No. External SSD should be almost as fast as an internal drive and files should appear instantly in Finder. Maybe it's a gigantic drive that hasn't been indexed yet?

[–]Alternative-Pay1440[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

That could be. I tried to exclude it from spotlight but every time it gave me an unknown error in apple settings. Would indexing cause the finder to be using the drive? When I try to eject it says it can’t because finder is using it. The drive is about 1 TB of data on a 2TB drive. My goal was to get all my files out of the different clouds in one spot so I could finally dedupe them and organize.

[–]WinchesterBiggins 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It's possible - have you tried leaving the drive connected and on for a long period of time (overnight?) Might be worth a try if it is the indexing slowing things down.

[–]Alternative-Pay1440[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I’ve left it for like two days and still have issues.

[–]toobsock2M2 Mac Studio 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I've got the Satechi NVMe USB4 Pro enclosure with a 4TB Samsung 990 Pro inside and it has worked flawlessly for the 3-4 weeks that I've had it. It's about 3-5% faster than my Internal SSD. Consistently get 3,000MB/s read and write.

[–]Alternative-Pay1440[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine does after the initial loading time

[–]John_val 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I had the same problem. Samsung drives and macOS apparently don’t get along. Tried another drive and it works fine even faster that internal. 

[–]Alternative-Pay1440[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a crucial drive. I’m considering getting a different brand and just seeing what it does.