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0:00 RIP OFF!
0:45 Why EXTERNAL STORAGE is BETTER?
1:37 Special M2 Mac Mini Competition
1:52 Different enclosures & speeds
2:22 1 - 2.5' SATA Enclosure
2:48 2 - 10Gb m.2 Nvme Enclosure
4:02 3 - 40Gb Thunderbolt Enclosure
4:28 40Gb speed SCAM!
5:09 External SSD VS Enclosure Prices
6:38 Should you get FASTER drives?
7:35 How to 'BUILD' the enclosure?
9:32 Why this ORICO enclosure is DIFFERENT?
10:06 How to Initialize the SSD?
11:38 SPEED TEST - How Good Is it?
13:20 How MUCH cheaper is IT???
13:32 How to get 3x in windows speed?
14:49 ACASIS Enclosure speed test
15:30 5x LONGER WARRANTY THAN APPLE???
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@PreludeStudiosMBD Жыл бұрын
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.....
@min2oly 9 ай бұрын
If you do mac upgrade to 512 the speed increases as well, with external hard drive, the speed will not increase...???
@teegees 6 ай бұрын
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.
@abhijitme 4 ай бұрын
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.
@peterbreis5407 3 ай бұрын
@@abhijitme Risky! Adds another layer of possible failure or difficult file recovery
@msandersen 9 ай бұрын
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.
@diazjubairy1729 5 ай бұрын
After format the ssd as apfs, can we still use the ssd in windows ?
@ElectroPanPipes 5 ай бұрын
@@diazjubairy1729no, it’s only Mac readable.
@anisdada1646 3 ай бұрын
@@ElectroPanPipes Can Android Tv's see it?
@ElectroPanPipes 3 ай бұрын
@@anisdada1646 I’d say no, as APFS is Apple File System.
@MercuriMedici 3 ай бұрын
@@diazjubairy1729 nope, you'd have to reformat to NTFS, you'd get faster speed on windows with that format than ExFat
@davewhite7182 Жыл бұрын
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.
@jimgardner5129 Жыл бұрын
Thanks my man. I would have done that and kicked my a$$ later.
@peterwan7945 Жыл бұрын
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.
@bassyey Жыл бұрын
I thought that's just common sense lol.
@roverdad Жыл бұрын
D’oh just did this yesterday…stuck to the ssd. However, there are extra thermal pads available for cheap.
@hitmusicworldwide Жыл бұрын
Can't you just use a blow dryer to gently heat up the adhesive and pull up slowly without it damaging anything
@charlesclifton1006 Жыл бұрын
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!!!
@LellePrinter82 8 ай бұрын
This is a sweet solution for mac users. I've seen the KZfaqr 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.
@iphone2009iphone 3 ай бұрын
I assumed that even if you pulled this off that it would be rejected by the machine, but this would be awesome
@denvera1g1 Жыл бұрын
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)
@yepoenorustomhortel2169 Жыл бұрын
This guys is not that too tech savvy. Ive watched one of his videos before and he was providing wrong info.
@denvera1g1 Жыл бұрын
@@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)
@MuLtI1970_MIDI_channel Жыл бұрын
"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.
@denvera1g1 Жыл бұрын
@@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
@bariskaya2008 Жыл бұрын
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..
@wcg66 Жыл бұрын
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.
@mowtow90 10 ай бұрын
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.
@ObeseChess 10 ай бұрын
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.
@CharlezCheng 11 ай бұрын
01:11 The internal SSD of the M2 Chip is not integrated within the SoC itself; instead, it is directly soldered onto the motherboard.
@frederichardy8844 7 ай бұрын
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.
@JAFOpty Жыл бұрын
it's important to include sustained operation testing. Quick burst operations (as in Black Magic) are not always representative of all use cases.
@robertblesse5108 8 ай бұрын
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!
@seshpenguin 5 ай бұрын
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)
@Jaylou88 8 ай бұрын
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.
@photon92 9 ай бұрын
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. 👍
@gergemall 6 ай бұрын
Awesome. Makes me feel reassured even though I trust this gentleman’❤
@Peter-df1br 8 ай бұрын
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.
@danielmuir4470 Жыл бұрын
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 .
@harshitsingh3915 Ай бұрын
There is a major flaw in this video, it does matter if you buy a faster SSD and also the controller used in your enclosure matters a lot too. There are a various speed test available. {FYI, 980 used in this video doesn’t hit that limit which is available with this enclosure, it is advisable to use 980 PRO. As mentioned in this video, you can’t use the complete 40 bandwidth, so with 980 Pro you can see speeds 2700-3300 (depending upon your device specs; wether it be your processor m1 vs M1 Max has different speeds for SSD, your RAM etc. As for the controller on your enclosure, Acasis and some famous brands use an Intel Controller which is one of the best, and that is the one you should go for as it too effects your speeds. Buy a 980 Pro, it’s just $20 more at max. Don’t go above that, 990 is not worth it, go for 980 Pro as it is the best one.
@MarshallsMusic Жыл бұрын
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
@SuperStareGry Жыл бұрын
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.
@Madhawk1995 Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@budgetkeyboardist Жыл бұрын
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.
@adamnealis 3 ай бұрын
M3 Mac mini is out soon. Let's see if they address this howler.
@zenchiefengineer Жыл бұрын
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!
@jeramybearamy8539 11 ай бұрын
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.
@zenchiefengineer 11 ай бұрын
@@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
@jeramybearamy8539 11 ай бұрын
@@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.
@joeglennaz 7 ай бұрын
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.
@stephenvalente3296 Жыл бұрын
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.
@michaelandrews4783 Жыл бұрын
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.
@stephenvalente3296 Жыл бұрын
@@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!
@Cujobob Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@stephenvalente3296 Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@ZumaZoom07 Жыл бұрын
They’re tryna get everyone to use cloud services instead
@timgurr1876 Жыл бұрын
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.
@kazaflew8055 Жыл бұрын
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.
@larryvaughn5843 Жыл бұрын
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.
@xCONDOGZz Жыл бұрын
Good luck to all those who have entered the giveaway. 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.
@e20qwv Жыл бұрын
Great video! Excellent presentation on this upgrade.
@Ddraig62SPD 7 ай бұрын
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 ;)
@gullybull5568 3 ай бұрын
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@chrisheck-stark2385 Жыл бұрын
With my 2014 Mac Mini, I upgraded and installed a Samsung 1 TB SSD. It works great and extended the longevity of use by years. Too bad the new structure doesn’t allow us to that. - Thank you for this information. - I will absolutely be following your instructions for a speedy external drive, when ever I am in a position to get a new Mac Mini. I am no longer worried about getting the smaller drive size and running put of space. - Thanks again for this great video.
@piezoman79 Жыл бұрын
I did the same thing with my 2011 mbp back in 2015 or so, it was like a whole new computer, easily doubled the speed and responsiveness of the system. I’m finally biting the bullet and switching to a Mac mini setup since the laptop portability convenience is basically absent for me with today’s smartphones. I was looking at some of the cheap Mac mini docks that have a drive bay built in, as a solution to not being able to install the ssd internally now, and it will also add the functionality of accessible ports.
@cjgarrison 10 ай бұрын
Anything not at least M1 or M2 is relatively slow AF… so if that works for you, but that advice can’t be taken seriously
@modalities 3 ай бұрын
I know this is an 11-month-old video, but it came up on my list and I thought to add to the conversation. Performance-wise, I can only applaud Apple. As for the "ecosystem" costs, well ... let me share that yesterday I sold my M2 Mac Mini Pro after five years in the "ecosystem" - and returned to Windows (version 11). I jumped back in with the GeekOM IT13, upgraded to 64GB RAM and an M.2. 2242 1TB SATA
@roberthartley6629 Ай бұрын
In the UK (and EU) you get a minimum of 5 years warranty on Apple and other premium electronics. They may say 1 year but consumer law wins. :-)
@skycrownM Жыл бұрын
This helps a lot as I am planning to buy a mini mac. Thanks a lot to you! ❤️
@harrison00xXx Жыл бұрын
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!
@stevenwaldstein2249 Жыл бұрын
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.
@EderTentoriGomez 9 ай бұрын
what enclosure did you used?
@stevenwaldstein2249 9 ай бұрын
@@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
@Mark_Media 11 ай бұрын
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!
@JoshuaG Жыл бұрын
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 👍❤️
@sanye4k Жыл бұрын
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
@SelvaggioEmpatico Жыл бұрын
That would be great idea to show in video how to setup external drive to boot the system on it. That may help many :)
@nelbazan8391 Жыл бұрын
Great and very informative video. Thanks. You have won a new subscriber! 😊
@mitchellquartero Ай бұрын
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
@Quince828 8 ай бұрын
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.
@adamnealis 3 ай бұрын
I am in the same boat. Going to try to wait for the M3 mini announcement next month...
@Quince828 3 ай бұрын
@@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.
@adamnealis 3 ай бұрын
@@Quince828 I can't convince myself to downgrade to a 24" screen. So my 2013 iMac may be my last iMac.
@Quince828 3 ай бұрын
@@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.
@joeglennaz Жыл бұрын
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.
@woodlandburl6648 Жыл бұрын
Very good video! first time viewer. Glad I found this channel.
@jeffreychan7403 9 ай бұрын
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)
@Brani1974 Жыл бұрын
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...
@WayneWatson1 Жыл бұрын
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
@Cujobob Жыл бұрын
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.
@WayneWatson1 Жыл бұрын
@@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
@Hard_7_Iron Ай бұрын
Yep…I actually made my External bootable. And I do my backups on the Internal drive. It took a while to figure it out (with Apples help)….but man, what a peace of mind.
@laurentw.261 Жыл бұрын
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..
@johnnyc.31 Жыл бұрын
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.
@ACohen 11 ай бұрын
For Mac running Catalina or higher, you should format as APFS.
@jwmcateer3284 10 ай бұрын
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?
@charlesjohnston1506 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the raffle. A great bonus to following a great channel.
@theTechNotice Жыл бұрын
Thanks, really appreciate the support! :)
@RicoRojas 10 ай бұрын
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
@ELEKTROGOWK 8 ай бұрын
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.
@richardr.5177 Жыл бұрын
Well done. Liked the topic and examples.
@bdhaliwal24 Жыл бұрын
On the new Macs only the memory is actually on the chip package however the SSD modules are soldered onto the motherboard, so no the storage is not part of the SOC (System on Chip). There's a clear advantage to having memory as part of the SOC package but not really storage .. well actually the only advantage really is that Apple makes more money.
@josephcadwell6773 7 ай бұрын
Yes! Thank you very much Samsung!
@carldaniel3155 11 ай бұрын
My internal SSD 1tb m2 mini is well above 6000 read/write. I saw another video with someone m2 mini and 256gb ssd - was only 3500 read/write!! Expensive upgrade, but wow it's fast... really super fast. You can't change the internal hard drive later - so I really recomend it. IMO.
@vasileiospgr Жыл бұрын
when you choose capacity on a ssd drive like the Apple's internal SSD you are not only selecting higher capacity but also higher TBW (Terabytes Written: the total amount of terabytes data that a SSD can write in its lifetime) as with all SSDs
@iamdetached 10 ай бұрын
What does that mean
@vasileiospgr 10 ай бұрын
@@iamdetached with every ssd when you select higher capacity you also get higher TBW. Apple products have the SSD soldered (Not removable), if something happens to the ssd or if its lifetime ends, whole product is unusable.
@geminibodyshop71 Жыл бұрын
great video mate i use an m.2 drive i use with my m1 macbook
@shanksisnoteventhatstrongbruh Жыл бұрын
USB4 M.2 case + TEAMGROUP TCreate 4.0 2tb SSD is the killer deal, you get a 5GB read/4.4GB write ssd with 3600tbw!!! and 2GB of DRAM cache too, perfect for content creation!
@greenpulp. Жыл бұрын
Can you link to the case?
@shanksisnoteventhatstrongbruh Жыл бұрын
@@greenpulp. USB4 M.2 cases are extremely overpriced right now but the cheapest with good reviews on amazon is made by Orico, cannot link are KZfaq usually flags amazon links as SPAM in comments but it appears as "Type C-M208-Silver" on the Amazon store, really expensive for what it is though.
@thestype 6 ай бұрын
Have been keeping my 2014 iMac 5k alive by taping an external SSD to its back and using it as primary boot medium. Permanently faster than the Fusion-Drive (128GB SSD + 1 TB HDD) that it came with, even though it maxes at 450 MB/s due to USB 3.0. Just ordered an M2 Mac mini where I will do the same. Ridiculous to go up the Apple fee path.
@alanbenham4139 10 ай бұрын
A superb & informative video. THank you.
@ggproductions7078 Жыл бұрын
I have 3x TB3 drives ( I have a macstudio) each one has a 2tb drive inside. So the 6tb cost me £750. Now of course that is still madly expensive but less than half the macinternal cost. I have 2drives in a RAID 0 and get around 5000 plus read and write. My other now is connected to my 24" ultrafine and I get the 2500 and that drive which is great for what I call my assets drive though I might start to run proggs of there. Oh and I bought a WD 4tb duo refurbished from WD for £65 as a back up for my RAID 0 so hopefully if I did have a drive failure I wouldn't loose too much work.
@theTechNotice Жыл бұрын
Nice!
@ggproductions7078 Жыл бұрын
£750 including the 3 enclosures, just in case that wasn't clear, and I think they can take up to 4tb each.
@evgeniibubolev9881 Жыл бұрын
It is also worth noting, that you can boot your Mac mini with Apple Silicon chip from this TB3(4) external SSD.
@aleksandersambor2826 9 ай бұрын
Thanks for this video. Very informative. I wish I saw it before starting my experiment with external storage. It would save me some money 😂
@FrancescoPaggiaro 8 ай бұрын
Finally someone that adapt nvme to work externally ❤
@steveblanchard7293 8 ай бұрын
You can still use Time Machine to back up to an SSD or HHD. So not all would be lost - mine a WD My Passport been running since 2018.
@chloelikesowls 3 ай бұрын
Thank you! So helpful
@dezaremos5944 Жыл бұрын
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 ..
@anthonyyork1 8 ай бұрын
Many thanks great video. Appreciated.
@BassKlef1 5 ай бұрын
Very informative. I have an M1 Mac Mini... what do you recommend as an external 1TB drive like this one? Thanks!
@djerikfox Жыл бұрын
..the best ssd video ever..respect!!!!
@OGJeff685 Жыл бұрын
Intel 670p Series M.2 2280 2TB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 QLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDPEKNU020TZX1 - 99 bucks Yottamaster 40Gbps M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure for 2280 NVMe SSD(M-Key)-NVMe Enclosure for Thunderbolt 4 - was 80 bucks yesterday Ordered them both. Will Report back tomorrow. Hooking to a Base M2 Mini
@theTechNotice Жыл бұрын
👍
@Pootleflump Жыл бұрын
How'd you get on?
@brightvisionary Жыл бұрын
Excellent presentation. What options are available to make it an encrypted drive?
@mark-ze4en Жыл бұрын
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?
@andresprypchanf 10 ай бұрын
Greetings from Venezuela ! Thanks for the nice info !
@forthewubwubs 9 ай бұрын
I upgraded the nvme drive in my dell xps15 and I used the old drive as an external and I just put it in a 10gbs enclosure and it does the job just fine.... 15$ for the enclosure 98$ for a 2tb nvme drive 0$ for 512gb nvme drive
@mrianforest 9 ай бұрын
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?
@bitspersecond2006 10 ай бұрын
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?
@imcw 9 ай бұрын
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.
@kingneutron1 5 ай бұрын
Nice review - and sponsored or not, it makes a lot of sense to use external storage. eSSD + NAS for backups is going to be way better. I wouldn't recommend exfat though, too many horror stories of lost data. Use network storage like Samba or NFS to share data between machines.
@SmartMeditationFilms 5 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@theTechNotice 5 ай бұрын
You're welcome!
@s.baxter9307 Жыл бұрын
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.
@DarraghRedmond Жыл бұрын
Just so you know, I think it’s worth bearing in mind. read and write speed are 10 times faster on the internal 85,900 as measures on my M2 as opposed to 490 from the external SSD . So plenty of storage on the ship can be very very handy, and then backing up to an external SSD.
@RobertSababady Жыл бұрын
That is such an important point that hardly anyone realises. I like the idea of having external storage, but from a perfomnce point of view, it is not comparible.
@DarraghRedmond Жыл бұрын
@@RobertSababady external storage is still an essential part to most peoples set up . but having that fast internal for those selected projects, keeps things running like a dream.. over the moon with my mini m2 ...
@MrDan1509 11 ай бұрын
I always edit off my laptops SSD then transfer to a portable storage after editing and uploading to website is done!
@peteandpuy 10 ай бұрын
Watching this video and seeing the 980 Pro falling in price here in Asia. I just ordered a Mac Mini M2 16GB, 512 today. I'm thinking maybe I'll cancel the order and go with the 256GB. No, you're right. I'll stick with the luxury of the 512 even though the price is ridiculous.
@DarraghRedmond 10 ай бұрын
@@peteandpuy defo Give yourself some work room , if you use iCloud storage then it will work seamlessly .
@ravenousvisages 9 ай бұрын
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?
@TristinaKardashian 3 ай бұрын
My eyes literally just flew out my head when you moved a 6gb that fast!!! 😮🤯
@PhilipHounsham 9 ай бұрын
Sound advice Thank you 👍
@valhala73 7 ай бұрын
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
@nickharper6436 Жыл бұрын
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
@abrock6215 Жыл бұрын
The problem I have with external storage is when I need to install a lot of applications. Many of them don't seem to work off of an external drive, unless I clone the internal one and then boot the computer from the external one.
@Rosomyat Жыл бұрын
It seems interesting. Can you explain more about it please. I want to install my applications externally.
@iluvmusicqwe 9 ай бұрын
Interesting that's never talked about. Just look at these black magic speed tests bro and all this speed and space, not the actual practicalities.
@mr-ladi617 3 күн бұрын
The only upgrade I want to do on the buying is ram! The other things I don't thing are necessary for a lot of works
@ebenezergarbrah5255 10 ай бұрын
Thanks made my selection based on info from here
@melchora7 7 ай бұрын
On my base model M1 Mac Mini, I get about 2700 read/write speeds. I purchased an Orico Thunderbolt enclosure and inserted a Samsung 970 Evo Plus into it. My read/write speeds are consistently over 2700 and I am able to boot from it as well. Looking at this video, I would have thought your NVME speeds would have been comparable to what I am getting using the Thunderbolt port, perhaps Apple has throttled back the Thunderbolt port, so the external speeds would not exceed the internal speeds ? Good video.
@diazjubairy1729 5 ай бұрын
I have mac mini m1 with 8gb of ram and 512 gb of storage, could you please mention what kind of orico enclosure did you buy ? Im interesested with your setup for external hard drive
@mr_eser 2 күн бұрын
Can we make RAID0 with the external ssd or is there another way to merge 2 of them?
@mushmouth789 Жыл бұрын
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
@garycard1826 Жыл бұрын
On my M1 MAC mini, I'm using 2x ELUTENG NVMe enclosures with 2x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB SSDs and I get 932 Read and 938 Mbps Write but my internal SSD I get 3,440 R and 3,473 W MBps.
@johnshoemaker6164 Жыл бұрын
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?
@theTechNotice Жыл бұрын
Try to see which works best for you... do some tests with the drive when it's empty and can be formatted again... :)
@jdierberger Жыл бұрын
In my own experience, using APFS was quite a bit faster than exFAT on a 980 PRO in a Thunderbolt enclosure.
@chrisalbertson5838 5 ай бұрын
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.
@oakiewoodsman 11 ай бұрын
Great video! Thank you
@douglazenby6809 Жыл бұрын
What about the multidrive nvme m.2 thunderbolt (or non thunderbolt) enclosures? On amazon, startech has a 4 drive nvme m.2 thunderbolt enclosure. You could put in four 4-TB nvme m.2 gen 3 or gen 4 drives that could be used as secondary concurrently running drives or could be striped (raid 0) or could set them up as other raid configurations (software enabled; softRaid). Also none of the single nvme drive enclosures that I have seen have a 2nd thunderbolt 3 or 4 port to allow daisy chaining. This multidrive external enclosure from Startech has 2 thunderbolt 3 ports (upstream/downstream), and OWC has some also. My guess is, if you used one of the available thunderbolt 3 or thunderbolt 4 hubs, and plugged single external nvme m.2 drives into it, it would not perform as efficiently; however l have nothing to base that opinion on. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated as l feel like a single (externally enclosed) nvme m.2 drive would just function like a glorified thumb drive.
@faridcasir9911 Жыл бұрын
What's the difference between this and a regular external ssd like the SanDisk portable Ssd?
@garyg3927 11 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing
@cocoandteddi6855 4 ай бұрын
Great video! 🎉 i want to use it to Mac book pro M3. Would you please give me some advice?
@jeramybearamy8539 11 ай бұрын
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?
@TheHokkaidogaijin Жыл бұрын
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
@RSV9 Жыл бұрын
Did you try to install the OS on an external ssd and do speed tests? It would be interesting to see if an external ssd can be used entirely instead of the internal one. You would have to load a lot of programs to use the memory swap as much as possible without slowing down your mac mini.
@WayneWatson1 Жыл бұрын
I did just that, trying to reduce the amount of usage of the internal drive. We use ProPresenter a LOT. It works great (the acasis TB case with fan and teamgroup Cardea ceramic) with 2k+ read/write. There were just a occasional periods of lag here and there.
@markhollis5850 Жыл бұрын
I do not see Apple as charging extra for their SSD. Instead, I see Apple’s stock unit as “the car with only one seat.” Now everyone pretty much buys a car with two or four seats, sometimes more but, don’t buy those seats and the car is cheaper. I would not buy a Mac with less than a 1TB drive. And the cost of that is the base model for me. There is enough overprovisioning in the 1TB drive that it will last a normal amount of time. I fear that you may be recommending to people that they use the external drive as their boot drive (because it has enough room for everything). That’s dangerous. In the M1 and M2 (not pro) Mac Mini, that takes away one Thunderbolt port. Permanently. And, remember how you showed us all how many portable SSD drives you have for your data? I started wondering which one was your boot drive. Because that is what is going to happen to any Mac user who is just slightly disorganized. We are simply looking at these systems in the wrong way. The base model with a real boot drive is really just $400 more.
@WayneWatson1 Жыл бұрын
@@markhollis5850 you can call thorns anything you want but they still thorns. $400 to go from 256gb to 1tb is a total ripoff. You can buy 2tb of very high end nvme drives for half that. A 1TB system should be at most a $150 upgrade charge. It doesn't matter how you try and spin it, it doesn't cut it with the ripoff prices
@markhollis5850 Жыл бұрын
@@WayneWatson1 General Motors sold the Chevy Vega with an "optional back seat." I would argue that it was not a finished automobile. Apple is trying to meet a price point by doing the same thing. I think Apple is foolish because they are risking complaints about a tiny internal drive. Additionally, in all of the M2 versions of their computers, there is only 1 NAND chip for the small SSD, which makes it perform slower (meaning you can buy an external drive that will operate faster than internal storage, which is just foolish). My point is that a 256GB drive is not a "real system" and the base model and base price of the Mac is actually $400 more when you consider usability. Oh, but you could get an underperforming one (the Vega with the missing back seat) more cheaply.
@WayneWatson1 Жыл бұрын
@@markhollis5850 you can try and make all the analogies you want. It won't change the fact apple is ripping people off. Period