Question

You want to connect an external hard drive for backups. Which is the fastest connection used by current external hard drives? What is the speed?

Answer 1

Answer:

Usb Type-C gen 2.It's speed is 10Gb/s.

Explanation:

Fastest connection available for an backup hard drive is usb Tape-C gen 2.It provides data transfer speed of 10Gbits/sec at full duplex.They can be identified as a super speed plus logo.The speed of backup drive also depends upon storage type.An SSD based backup drive will be faster than a legacy HDD based storage device.

Answer 2

Answer:

The fastest connection used is Thunderbolt 3

Explanation:

most recent computer have inbuilt varieties of  ports and connection types. a typical desktop or laptop have all or some these connections :

• USB 2.0
• USB 3.0, USB 3.1
• eSATA
• Fireware
• Ethernet
• Gigabit Ethernet
• Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt can transfer at the speed of up to 40 Gbps making it the connection with the fastest transfer speed. it is been incorporated into the Mac series of computers produced by the Apple inc. this technology was deployed by Intel and it can be found in recent Mac books