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0:45 Why EXTERNAL STORAGE is BETTER?
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1:52 Different enclosures & speeds
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5:09 External SSD VS Enclosure Prices
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10:06 How to Initialize the SSD?
11:38 SPEED TEST - How Good Is it?
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bro EX-FAT is trash. it is superslow. it slow as snail. if you want to use full speed bandwidth then format it into apfs. it would be native to mac os but it will have brilliant speed. CHEERSSSS.....
If you do mac upgrade to 512 the speed increases as well, with external hard drive, the speed will not increase...???
I’m having a harder and harder time justifying buying a Mac nowadays with their drive internals soldered on. It’s just too much of a risk, even if I run stuff off of an external drive.
For these drives, can you please do a speed comparison test between Ex-FAT, APFS and APFS Encrypted? That would help us a lot. I would prefer APFS Encrypted if the loss of speed is within 20% range, as that would still keep my data secure in the external drive.
@@abhijitme Risky! Adds another layer of possible failure or difficult file recovery
If you add an external SSD for your Mac, format in APFS, it is designed for SSDs, the others aren’t. Forget about HFS+ or ExFat. Rule of thumb: If you’ve got an external traditional spinning HD, use HFS+; if you have an SSD, use APFS. It has to do with the entirely different technologies involved. HFS+ manages fragmentation, rewriting an entire file if even a small portion is changed to maintain a contiguous data block, whereas on an SSD, there is no read head, access is equally fast however much the data is fragmented, so it can just update the data that has changed and leave the rest, which is much faster. SSDs however require garbage collection, which HFS+ is not designed for as SSDs did not exist back then, so performance of an SSD formatted in HFS+ will degrade the more it is used. The opposite is true for HDs, always use HFS+ for optimal performance and automatic defragmentation. If you read and write a lot of small files, eg lots of image files, ExFat also isn’t as good on large volumes nor support journaling or any other advanced file system feature.
After format the ssd as apfs, can we still use the ssd in windows ?
@@diazjubairy1729no, it’s only Mac readable.
@@ElectroPanPipes Can Android Tv's see it?
@@anisdada1646 I’d say no, as APFS is Apple File System.
@@diazjubairy1729 nope, you'd have to reformat to NTFS, you'd get faster speed on windows with that format than ExFat
Just a tip, do NOT stick the thermal pad onto the ssd, stick it on the lid. Why? Because if your ssd fails and you need to do a warranty return, when you try to peel off the pad it takes all the serial number printing with it and the drive is left with no ID. I made this mistake with a Sabrent enclosure that came with a similar pad.
Thanks my man. I would have done that and kicked my a$$ later.
You need pressure between the ssd and the enclosure for the thermal pad to function properly. If you put it on the lid and it did not stick to the ssd that means it’s useless.
I thought that's just common sense lol.
D’oh just did this yesterday…stuck to the ssd. However, there are extra thermal pads available for cheap.
Can't you just use a blow dryer to gently heat up the adhesive and pull up slowly without it damaging anything
Just came across your channel this morning and I have to say.... as far as external disc storage goes...
this is the most informative education I've yet to receive. Brilliant!! well done!!!
01:11 The internal SSD of the M2 Chip is not integrated within the SoC itself; instead, it is directly soldered onto the motherboard.
I think that the SSD controller is in the SoC, and the nand memory of the SSD is soldered on the motherboard. A m2 nvme SSD include both the controller and the memory.
Many thanks for this helpful video. I purchased everything you recommended: Samsung 280 1TB SSD and the Orico M.2 SSD enclosure. Easy assembly and it runs fast on my Mac Studio 2022 M1. I will use the drive for fast video editing using Premiere Pro. I'm very appreciative of your help and recommendations. Thanks, again!
Great video! Excellent presentation on this upgrade.
The internal 256GB SSD is quite a bit slower than the 512GB and 1TB version in the M2 Mini. I highly recommend at least the 512GB version and then add external storage.
The reason for it is that the 512 is actualyl 2x256 nad chips with the NAND controller Striping the data (practically a RAID 0). On the M1 gen the 256 was faster because it was 128s. However that has a drawback - shorter lifesapn. Smaller NAND chip has smaller max write cout (or weir) then the bigger ones. This why early M1s had extensive weir issues on the smaller versions due to swap. That is why when you buy NVME check how many NAND chips it has and what is the max write cout (it will give you an idea how long it will last depending on your use case).
That is ufcource if the OEM doesnt sc**w with the firmware and the weir calcualtion on the NAND controller - caugh (Samsung, Kixoxia/Toshiba , Seagate ext). Its actaully funny how many enterprise HDDs Seagate , Toshiba and WD f***cked with bad FW until they fixed it.
On paper, true, but it looks like its 2.25gbps vs 1.5gbps - I’m of the opinion that most people are not going to notice that enough for it to make a $200 difference.
Fun fact, the SSDs on the Mac are not part of the SOC, their decision to make it not replacable is entirely focused on screwing over the customer and effectively making iCloud backup manditory(this is the main reason, as the devices fail more often than the storage, incentivises iCloud adoption by feat of the stograge not working if the PSU fails)
This guys is not that too tech savvy. Ive watched one of his videos before and he was providing wrong info.
@@yepoenorustomhortel2169 Everyone is allowed to make mistakes, Apple said it was part of the SOC before.
Apple tends to conflate SOC and SBC as meaning the same thing, when really SOC means it is all in one block of silicon, and SBC means all silicon blocks are on a single package/board, so it is an honest and easily forgiven error
Here's something alot of people dont know
Did you know that the RAM is also not part of the SOC?
Sure there is cache on die, but this is SRAM and generally less than 100MB, the stuiff most people think of RAM Apple claims is on the SOC, is actually on the package, not the CPU chip
Source: I took apart my M1 Mac Mini
Also Some of Apple's marketing material clearly show the CPU chip sitting next to two to four LPDDR packages of some sort(IIRC LPDDR4x or LPDDR5)
"and effectively making iCloud backup manditory(this is the main reason)" True, but more and more people are becoming aware of this and set up a home NAS systems to use as backup. I rather invest a few hundred bucks on a NAS as pay for Icloud or whaterver cloud and throw everything out "in the open" to companies that i don't know.
I am a new Aplle user since about a year, totally love the M1 mini for it's performance but idd the memory and storage prices are insane and not user servicable. Apple needs to become aware that most people have no spare money aside to replace a complete system rather then replace the broken part(s). But as long we (the consumers) are willing to spend money, it just will continue.
@@MuLtI1970_MIDI_channel I dont care what backup method you have, it is unacceptable for a wear item, to not be replicable.
Its like if Tesla made you buy a new car every time a tire needed to be replaced.
Problem with even proper backup solutions and not storing anything locally is that the machine will kill itself, there had been over 6TBW on my 256GB model in.... 4 months? before they fixed the "bug" i literally just left it sitting there plugged in and turned on to see how soon it would kill itself, there were times it would write over 100GB/day, without even touching it.
At that point i had put close to 3000H of actual use on my main computer and it only had 4TBW, this included backing up and editing photos on this before moving them to my file server(i edit locally because storage is cheap and easily replaceable)
It wasnt until after they fixed the bug that i decided it was safe to use it as my backup plex server for recording OTA TV to a network location, which was the main reason i bough the thing in the first place
The only redeeming quality is that the MacOS can generally boot from an external drive if the internal drive fails, with Windows you need to use something called Windows2Go, or just switch to linux to be able to boot to an external drive
Uh the controller is embedded in the SOC so even if the 'storage modules' were removable like on the Mac Studio you wouldn't be able to use them on any other machine to get data off of them.. Any x86 motherboard or external exclosure would require a controller to be present on the storage device like nvme ssds..
Hello from Phoenix Arizona I’m coming back and watching your video. Again thank you so much for posting this. This is a much needed video at least for me. I’ve been trying to figure out the combination of SSD Drive and the appropriate enclosure to get the highest transfer speed possible at the lowest cost there is so many choices out there. It gets very confusing. I actually downloaded your video to my iPad and my iPhone and of course I saved it and gave it a like. Thanks again.
For the USB 10/20Gbps enclosures, make sure to lookup if your particular model needs firmware updates. It's common for them to have some bugs in the older firmware that can lead to possible data corruption, but are fixed in newer firmware (though most require a Windows PC to run the update program)
This is a sweet solution for mac users. I've seen the TH-camr Dosdude1 who managed to replace the ssd nand in a Mac Mini from the 256gb model with 2tb. He replaced the two 128gb chips with two 1tb chips. His soldering skills are on a complete another level.
I assumed that even if you pulled this off that it would be rejected by the machine, but this would be awesome
it's important to include sustained operation testing. Quick burst operations (as in Black Magic) are not always representative of all use cases.
Very good video! first time viewer. Glad I found this channel.
Great video!
I'm considering switching to Apple and wonder if there is a docks in the form of Mini with high speeds like the one you showed, plus enclosure for other formats SSD, perhaps even the old type spinning HDD good for huge slow storage...
Great program i am new to Mac and one of my biggest complaints was that the ssd was to small . But I always wanted to try and expand the hard drive. and you just answered my question thanks. I have subscribed to your channel and hope to learn more .
Well done. Liked the topic and examples.
Excellent presentation. What options are available to make it an encrypted drive?
That would be great idea to show in video how to setup external drive to boot the system on it. That may help many :)
Great and very informative video. Thanks. You have won a new subscriber! 😊
As someone who's profession is in the tech space and who uses these things on the daily, this was a really well done and informative video. 👍
Awesome. Makes me feel reassured even though I trust this gentleman’❤
Yes! Thank you very much Samsung!
I don’t know why in the world I enjoy these videos, but I do. I am trying to get all my back up set up. I have a MacBook Pro M1 2021 version and I’ve got a old all in one HP,PC and I get an iPhone and iPad I’m using iCloud but I’d like to get some back ups that are all done locally here in my house so that I can have a physical copy for myself and part of that is learning about the drives and external enclosures that you featured here. Thank you.
This helps a lot as I am planning to buy a mini mac. Thanks a lot to you! ❤️
Avoid the Mac Mini and go straight to the M1 Air or M1 Pro MacBooks.
Sure you can "save" some money by getting a Mac Mini but you lose so much convenience and usability!
I agree with going to an external SSD. Mine is the ACASIS TBU405 with the WD Black SN850X PCIe Gen 4 NVMe 4TB SSD.
My speed is 2572 MB/s Write & 2776 MB/s Read. I use it for all my media using Plex on my MacMini. The ACASIS TBU405 can accept up to an 8TB NVMe. I'm very happy with it. As a matter of fact, I have already order another ACASIS TBU405 case.
Great informative Vlog. I’ve just purchased a 2020 M1 MacBook Air with 256SSD so need an external drive and would like it to be as fast as the internal SSD and 1TB capacity. What would you recommend I buy? Many thanks in anticipation
Very informative. I have an M1 Mac Mini... what do you recommend as an external 1TB drive like this one? Thanks!
Great video!!!! So if I mount one of those enclosures to use externally do I still need to buy 512GB or is enough with 256GB? Wich set up do you think it would be enough for few years? Best regards
When building external ssd for Mac, does it benefit going for an ssd with dram like the 980 Pro vs the 980 ?? By how much ?? It would be nice if you do a video on this ..
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Thanks for the video, I have been looking into a mac mini for a while now. I've had one gaming computer since pre-university and now I think it's time for an upgrade, the type of software I use at work revolves around Mac's and I don't game anymore lol.
I’ve just bought the exactly same Orico enclosure and 1TB WD SN850X for my M1 macbook air, and the speed can actually reach 2800mbps in both read and write.
That is about what I get with the Acasis and a 2TB SN 850x, which is about 1000 mbps faster than the internal 250Gb drive my $499 m2 Mac mini came with. Either way it's fast enough for Resolve, way more speed than is necessary for the application. The same memory runs at about 5000 mbps on my pc motherboard.
Thanks made my selection based on info from here
..the best ssd video ever..respect!!!!
I spent $270 on a Acasis 40GB M.2 enclosure and a 2TB SN850X. Read/Write speeds are 2600-2700 Mbps. It’s a Beast. Super happy with it.
Thanks for great info.What 2.5" ssd SATA would you recommend? Thanks .
Thanks for this vid, I did go with one of the Acasi cases not just for the drive, but since my base mac mini M2 only has the 2 TB ports, I can use the drive and still chain another device
Thank You so much,
You made sense about a difficult to understand bandwidth.
Do you know if it's possible to have the external SSD, as a Bootable Drive instead of the Internal SSD,
Would this be a tutorial that you would consider,
I understand there are some hurdles to achieve this.
A superb & informative video. THank you.
Just ordered a Mac Mini M2 and was wanting to get your opinion on something. I got the base cheapest model and was thinking should I buy the apple keyboard first or the storage you talked about in this video, eventually I will get both but wanted to know the order of purchase in your opinion. I have other keyboards I can use in the meantime
If only Apple would see sense here and at least halve the cost of storage and memory upgrades, I suspect they'd gain a higher percentage of people upgrading their kit to at least 1Tb internally.
Apple preys on people with little pc knowledge and high disposable income I suspect they have worked out that market is limited and rather than expand and sell in volume they have decided to stick to this limited production high profit margin model.
@@michaelandrews4783 Exactly. Cook openly extolls his skill of cutting production costs, shafting suppliers on their margins to improve his, etc., so why can Apple still not make more significant inroads into the PC market share?
Simple, besides the laziness of consumers to move away from Windows, cost is the biggest barrier to the Apple ecosystem.
If Cook decided to reduce their margins on hardware and more so upgrades, they'd undoubtedly shift more units. With that the software base may well expand, and more AAA games developers may consider Macs as something attractive to develop for.
These big corporations aren't always run by the brightest of people when they can't see beyond the edge of their big desks, offices, and fat share options!
@@stephenvalente3296the base Mac Mini is a really impressive machine for the money, it even looks nice compared to those Mini PCs in a similar range and it has fewer issues.
Part of the way they achieve that is by mass production of the base unit which allows them to be cheaper.
The base machine is supposed to be for an average computer user. These are not the people commenting online so we don’t hear from them as often, but an average person really doesn’t need more than 8Gb of RAM or a bigger hard drive (yet).
Everyone out there isn’t working with complex 4K or 8K video edits.
I would like to see them do a mid tier Mac Mini with more RAM and more hard drive space for a couple hundred more dollars, though. That would be more reasonable and would allow them to not have so much a la carte upgrading.
@@Cujobob I think if they produced something like a 16Gb/1Tb system for say £999, instead of the £1249 list price with upgrades here in the UK, it would be a good selling alternative to the base Mac Mini M2 Pro.
They’re tryna get everyone to use cloud services instead
Great video! 🎉 i want to use it to Mac book pro M3. Would you please give me some advice?
This is a godsend. My spinning 10TB G-drive is getting old. Editing in FCPX is frustrating, especially when I'm rendering. I just got the enclosure and a Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1 TB. Installed it. Initialized it. Already noticed a marked improvement from the G-drive just transferring files and reading my A & B roll files. Dude! Thanks for this info!
Are you noticing a difference between write and read speeds? I just bought an Acasis enclosure and a Samsung 970 Evo Plus for my 16" MacBook M1 Pro. The read speeds are about 2800 MBps but the write speed is much lower at 1300 MBps. I'm trying to figure out whether to keep the 970 Evo Plus or buy a WD Black SN 770.
@@jeramybearamy8539 I haven't clocked anything. I just notice if any editing software hangs up or lags. BTW, I switched to Davinci Resolve and have absolutely no problems at all
@@zenchiefengineer I switched to a 2 TB 980 Pro, which is Gen 4 PCIe. The write speeds now reach 2800 MBps. I think the difference has something to do with the mismatch of a Gen 3 SSD with a Gen 4 enclosure. The 980 was only $14 more than I paid for the 970 Evo Plus, so not too bad.
The newer ACASIS and ORICO enclosures are house a Intel JHL7440 controller with PCIe3.0x4 interface with spec max of 24Gbps - explains why we don’t see the 40Gbps spec of TB3 even with native PCIe3 interface in both directions (no overhead)
Thanks for the video. Well done. I use external drive Samsung T5, 2TB for my photos on my iMac. Just bought a Samsung T7, 4TB for only $300 USD (on sale from Samsung). Read and write may not be as fast but I don’t really need the speed for my purposes.
I am using exactly this Orico enclosure with a Crucial M2 NVME SSD 4 TB and I reach about 2200-2500 MB/s at TB3 on my Mac..
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I get 2k write and 2.5k read on my Sabrient Rocket XTRM-Q. I have my MacOS Ventura installed and using it on this external SSD. So, I am saving my small 256GB drive on my Mac mini M1. This is how you really beat the Mac pricing!
Excellent presentation on this upgrade.
I too was looking into this after having ordered the base M2 but with 16GB RAM (important imo) , but decided to swap it out for an upgrade to the pro with 1TB (6000mbs) costing an additional £550 . I thought it was worth it which also included some extra ports . Its criminal that the base model is throttled like this although still not slow and performs almost the same as the pro on single core speeds. Apple know exactly how to dangle the carrots in front of the performance driven consumer :)... Its a reliable product though and don't mind paying that bit extra for the insurance
How is 1tb of storgae in 2023 worth additional 550gbp? I gues apple users are one of a kind happy to be milked. Nand flash prices are lowest yet apple charges so much.
@@SuperStareGry yeah they are scum. unfortunately, they have the most power efficient computers on the market currently and their hardware acceleration is pretty good. That's how they get you. Then scalp you on the ram and nvme storage.
Thank you! So helpful
I use the acasis thunderbolt with the fan in it. I love it. I tried running the Mac off the external for a bit, but kept hitting periods of lag. I use the 2tb Team group Cardea ceramic
Lag could be due to the drive not having enough DRAM, a bad cable, or the chipset used on the enclosure. Also, the most recent update to Mac OS slowed speeds substantially off of externals for some reason. My enclosure can do up to about 3150 read and write, but is now down a fair bit.
@@Cujobob it's a 2tb Teamgroup Cardea z440 ceramic. Plenty of speed and dram. I get over 2k read and write with my TB enclosure
I'm confused a little by the speeds you were getting on those enclosures on your mac. Is that with a connection over thunderbolt or USB 3.2?
Great video! Thank you
Too be honest I’m just a regular user I’m planning on upgrading from the mid 2019 MacBook Air to the current m2 Mac mini but it is very good video thanks
Many thanks great video. Appreciated.
Great video - $210 for semi-fast 1TB external is a good deal. Apple really screwed up by putting the slower 250GB SSD in the M2 Mac Mini, because when you run out of 8 GB RAM, you really need super speedy SSD. That's why the M1 Mac Mini can outperform the M2 Mac Mini when you run out of RAM.
M3 Mac mini is out soon. Let's see if they address this howler.
Hi Great Video, Does Samsung have a recovery program if the ssd go wrong ?????
Could you please recommend a 3.0 setup for Mac I know you made a video of it for windows users, since you tested so many budget enclosures, wich one do you think would work best on Mac?
Does this mean I will avoid the “bottle neck” that having 256gb would cause compared to higher Gb internal drives such as the 1tb.
Ok I have a question. Are you able to store iTunes (Apple Music & Apple TV) media on an external ssd? I have both purchased and non purchased media. The mini wants to only store purchase on the internal ssd, effectively separating my library. I keep changing the library location to the external drive but it keeps, er, ‘correcting’ itself. Also, will there be a way to add future ‘non Apple’ purchased movies/ tv series to my library. The new Mac mini has removed the file type change from “home movie” to change to movie , tv show or music video. I am going from Mac mini 2012 (using iTunes still) to 2023 Mac mini using Apple TV and Apple Music apps and finder to sync iPad and iPhone. For context I have a huge media library (just under 2TB) so they all won’t fit on a 512gb internal ssd. (Even my purchased items exceeds 512gb). Is this achievable or did I waste A$1,999. When I look at my media files in Apple Music/ Apple TV apps it points to the external hard drive, but in about it says the library points to the internal ssd file path. Also with the way iTunes on my old Mac had the files it was media that branched to movies, music and tv shows sub branches. I have pointed Apple Music to music sub folder but cannot simultaneously select movies and tv sub folders as music sub folder is between them. I have consolidated library etc. New Mac does not keep file point changes but insists on reverting to internal ssd (for purchased movies and tv shows and my 17,000+ song music library) I have used the itl file to bring over playlists etc from the external hdd. I just cannot simultaneously select movies and tv sub folders. Any help appreciated
If I am building a Intel i7-13700/ ASUS z790 proart creator ,, can I use the first TB4 connection for a Thunderbolt interface and use the 2nd TB4 connection for orchestral sample drive?
Thanks for this video. Very informative. I wish I saw it before starting my experiment with external storage. It would save me some money 😂
great video mate i use an m.2 drive i use with my m1 macbook
Great video thanks a lot.
I have a 13 inch MBPro with an internal 128g SSD
Can I use your external solution and load the Mac operation system on this drive because my internal SSD is nearly full.
Will my system run at the same speed from the external SSD
Sound advice
Thank you 👍
What's the difference between this and a regular external ssd like the SanDisk portable Ssd?
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Thanks, really appreciate the support! :)
at the end of the day it always depends on the file type you want to transfer. Transferring movies can reach speeds like 1GB/s and folder with tons of small files you get a transfer speed of 200 MB/s.
Can you opt for the pro version with 2TB or other brands with 4TB? I assume my Mac Mini M2 will recognize those? Is that correct?
I have a question for you though...: My concern about the 980 vs the 980 Pro is caching... I constantly transfer quite large files to my drives (50+GBs) How do they perform in terms of sustained write performance in this case? Which one will sustain a higher transfer rate, for 100GBs worth of that at once?
Using the Orico NVME 40 GB enclosure and the Samsung EVO Plus 970 drive, I am seeing approximately 2770/2750 read write speeds on a base M1 Mac Mini...which seem to be higher than what is being shown on the M2 Mac Mini....Not sure why this is ? I am also able to boot to the external drive.
Silly question. Can you back up the os to an external and restore if the internal ssd crashes?
I’ve been using a 8TB HHD external hard drive to backup all my photographs.Wouldn’t your system work much better than what I’m using?
0:51 its such a bummer that they decided to integrate the SSD into the motherboard 😓
This makes the older MAC and Macbooks more valuable than ever , even though it wont live up to the performance and efficiency of Apple Silicon 👍❤️
it's all about the money buy mini hope last 3-5 year if not buy new onw my friend still has a macbook mid 2010 put in a ssd drive upgrade ram work better then first buy it that has is should be
did you try to make the drive bootable and just start up the computer from there? or is that no longer an option since the memory is incorporated?
Very informative but can you boot from these enclosures, so if I wanted to dual boot mac os and linux and run linux from a thunderbolt 3 port is that possible?
I am a little bit confused, sorry I am not very used to these kind of DIY adjustments. I am more of a okapple-lets-pay-for-the-whole-damn-thing guy but this looks really interesting. I wander what´s the difference or advantage of using this method instead of an external HD unit? I mean the 4TB ones cost almost the same. Is there a way to use this Samsung HD just as the apple start up disk? I don´t want to have problems with apps using all of my native hard disk and making performance slower. Thank you.
For Mac running Catalina or higher, you should format as APFS.
Yep I was surprised to hear his recommendation. I thought APFS was designed for ssds. Might the format of the drive have an effect on performance?
Finally someone that adapt nvme to work externally ❤
Read some Amazon reviews asking about 'drop outs' (which I assume are the external drive dis-mounting) if pushed too hard for certain enclosure/drive combinations. Did you ever experience any of that?
I have encountered this problem with the Orico 10 gbps and 970 evo. I switched to the 40 gbps model, and everything is working just fine. A few days ago, I took the PCB out of the 10 Gbps box, used it with some thermal pads and a heatsink on top, and it has been rocking since then. It could be related to thermal, but I am not entirely sure.
Thank you for sharing
I notice a lot of reviews for the usbc mac mini boxes with ssd or hard drive storage space- complain that their drive improperly disconnects often. What is different about your method/ can you shut down without having to remember to unmount this drive?
Can you recommend which 2tb from Samsung would work with the Acasis 40gb enclosure?
Great overview! Kinda validates what I did when I got my base spec Mac Mini M1 at launch. Picked up the Acasis Enclosure FA-TB34 and paired it with a WD Black SN750 1TB M.2 NVME PCIE Gen 3. Managed 2483/2341 MB/s R/W after 5 mins @ 32C with a Thermalright Extreme Odyssey 1.0mm thermal pad to replace the stock 0.5mm pad. Works fine for my hobbyist level 4K video editing ;)
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I’m in the process of deciding to replace my iMac with a Mac mini and this is a very helpful tutorial as I choose which one to get. Definitely looking at external storage too.
I am in the same boat. Going to try to wait for the M3 mini announcement next month...
@@adamnealis I ended up not waiting and bought an M3 imac and I’m very happy with it. I also got a WD 8 tb external drive (actually cheaper than a smaller one) so I’m pretty much future proof for a while.
@@Quince828 I can't convince myself to downgrade to a 24" screen. So my 2013 iMac may be my last iMac.
@@adamnealis that is an issue of course but when I looked into the vagaries of finding the right monitor for a mac mini and the other peripherals I would need my decision was helped. Also the new Mac screen is still larger than my old intel one is.
Is this applicable for Macbook Pro 14 also ?? Instead of upgrading to 1tb/2tb .. I'll just get a base model 512gb model and an external ssd .. The reason to upgrade to 1tb model is because of the slow ssd performance of M2 pro models .. Will I preserve the internal ssd's health if I will have all my working files in the external ssd ??
Great job ❤! Cheers
I know the Samsung 980 is a lower cost gen 3 drive that relies on HBM instead of dram cache. So does this still work over the thunderbolt/usb 4 enclosure?
Just did for MacStudio with 980 Pro & Acasis case. Speeds are nearly to 3000mb/s. So good. I still wish I bought more internal storage because my internal is nearly 6000mb/s.
What kind of Acasis enclosure do I need for my late 2014 Mac mini if I’ll buy a Samsung 500 Gb 980 ssd . As of now the read and write speeds of my old Macintosh hdd runs between 40-50 MB/s After which I installed a Samsung T7 1 TB external now the reading is as follows 407 and 405 MB/s it varies
Thank you for the great information! Ordering the Acasis and SSD as we speak. Another content creator suggested APFS rather than Mac OS Extended (Journaled). What have you seen as the advantages/disadvantages of each?
Try to see which works best for you... do some tests with the drive when it's empty and can be formatted again... :)
In my own experience, using APFS was quite a bit faster than exFAT on a 980 PRO in a Thunderbolt enclosure.
APFS is much improved over HFS+, APFS is a copy-on-write file system so ding thins like a copy takes literally zero time as no data is actually coined. APFS can also keep version histories of files. APFS is more like like Linux's BTRFS or Solaris' ZFS.
My setup:
16" MacBook M1 Pro (2021)
Acasis 40Gbps enclosure
Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2 TB SSD
Write - 1300 MBps
Read - 2800 MBps
Any idea why the write speed is so much lower than the read speed?
Does this work with the Apple Tablet? (bummer I found this too late - missed out on the draw)! Will there be another draw sometime soon?
Does this work for mac mini 2014 i’m looking to have it updated into external SSD
Thank you for the video. I spent the extra money for a 1TB SSD in both my M1 Mac Mini and MacBook Air and get ~2900 MB/s read/write speeds. I can almost match that (~2800 MB/s) with the Samsung 980 Pro (2TB) when I I use APFS file system designed for NVME technology. That is the file system type on the Macs internal SSD. So I don’t throw away 40% of the performance. I can also match that with the cheaper Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD.
what enclosure did you used?
@@EderTentoriGomez ORICO M.2 Enclosure for NVMe SSD, USB4.0 40Gbps Type-C to M Key B+M Key 2280 Aluminum External SSD Case Compatible with Thunderbolt 3/4 USB3.2/3.1/3.0/ Type-C-M2V01
Is it possible to run the system from the external drive? Then just have like 4tb external storage
Do the gen4 drives run cooler at higher and constant transfer speeds?
Too bad the "disk not ejected properly" issue is plaguing the use of external storage with Macs
If you are still there, what about external storage for 2 or 4 SSDs. Do you have info recommendations?
So...how fast is it as a boot drive? That way I could install a number of apps in case I need them.
So get the smallest internal SSD, keep the OS and /Applications only. Put /Users and everything else on external SSD?