This external SSD is faster than your BASE M2 Mac's internal SSD!
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- Can an external SSD be faster than the internal SSD in the M2 Macs ?
🔍🚀 I searched around A LOT and found the perfect combination of super fast NVMe and reliable, fast enclosure that works amazingly well with your M2 Mac, as well as any other Apple Silicon Macs (and really ANY device with Thunderbolt 3/4 or USB4 ports).
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Man this channel is very underrated!
Thank you so much for your kind words, I appreciate you!!
Thanks for your great explanation.
I appreciate you!
Great stuff Joe! Thank you and greetings from Scotland!
I appreciate you!
legit video, thanks much. wanted to chime in here and see if anyone has used/familiar with a case that has additional port for daisy-chaining? Running out of ports lol, and would be nice to piggy-back additional components. note: i know there's plenty of powered options out there, but looking for portabilitiy similar to this Acasis here. thanks!
i buy 2 ssd and not work TWO!! only one use PCEexpress second ssd use type-USB.... why ? only one thunderbolt 4 work ? i tryit on my imac m1 and macbook air m2
Useful info for me, thanks.
I’m really glad you found it useful. Thank you for taking the time to comment!
Getting the same speeds on my TB405 with the 2TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus. This is not on the Acasis "approved" list. Was concerned but so far no issues with this drive.
That's awesome!
You can also use it as your OS boot drive
Yes, you can!
How? Can you elaborate?
Like, using it as an Asahi Linux Boot drive or...?
Thanks mane ✨✨
Thanks for stopping by!
great video bro!
Thank you, I appreciate you!
Thanks for that info on the 770 vs 850
Glad you found it helpful!
Can you boot and run your Mac m2 from an external thunderbolt ssd. Why can't Apple just put a m.2 in the Mac mini instead of these soldered ssd. Every modern Windows motherboard has built in m.2 slots in them.
Yes you can. Install any compatible version of MacOS into your NVMe and to boot from it you just have to hold down the Alt key just after turning your Mac on. You will see a menu where you can choose to boot from the NVMe drive.
The soldered SSD is not exclusive to Macs. Many modern Windows computers are adopting this. Basically any thin laptop and premium devices like Microsoft Surface have soldered SSDs.
@@JoeCastellon well at least with custom built desktop and tower PCs. Yeah I need to get back on my Windows and Linux machines.
@@jonny777bike yeah a custom rig will always be the best bang for your buck in most situations. It's for video editing and maybe also for photography, music production and design that Mac computers have an edge over Windows computers, for most people in those niches.
Love your music but needs to be louder
Thanks! I appreciate you for taking the time to provide your feedback. I try to not let the music too loud so it doesn’t compete with my voice.
What kind of music on background 🤣
😆 just imagine you're playing your favorite GameBoy game 😂
Thanks for this video, Joe. I’m looking for an external boot SSD to use instead of the Fusion Drive in my 2017 iMac. Would you recommend this same package for that use case? I know it would work fine, but I wondered if you had more specific thoughts about working with older Intel Macs.
The only caveat I can think of is it would be as fast unless you plug it into a 40gbps port (not sure if the 2017 iMac has that), but it’s a given that it would definitely work better than the Fusion Drive.
@@JoeCastellon Thank you!
@@andykhouri best of luck!
My base Studio M2 Max writes at 6,100 and reads at 5,900 - what M2 were you using that was much slower? Note, I did upsize the SSD to 1TB and I believe that accounts for some of the speed increase?
“Base M2” is any M2 non-Pro, non-Max that has only 256gb base storage. Examples are the BASE MODEL M2 Mac Mini and BASE MODEL M2 MacBook Air.
I have the sn850x 4tb on a macbook pro m1 and can only achieve 1900 write speed am I doing something wrong
Which enclosure are you using?
@@JoeCastellon Satechi
@@lesliddle it's likely a 20gbps enclosure. You need to use a proper USB4 or Thunderbolt 4 enclosure to get around 3000 MB/s
@@JoeCastellon Its 40gbps
Too bad that all this is no help at all for the 2020 M1 Mac Minis which does not have TB4 ports☹️
True. In this case it’s best to just buy the external SSDs. Speed won’t go past 800MB/s but it’s still enough for 4K video editing in case that’s your use case.
You know what? I take back my previous reply. I double checked and the M1 Mac Mini does have TB4 ports so the Acasis Enclosure would work fine with it.
@@JoeCastellon Really? I must give it a try then
@@psoon04286 it should work fine. I read the specs on Apple’s website and it does have USB4 ports.
Why does everyone only use gen 3 nvme drives when you can you gen 4 which is faster ?
Good question. For the time being, Gen3 NVMe's are capable of more speed than the currently available enclosures. There are many Gen3 NVMe's that can go up to 3,500MB/s where as this enclosure will never go above 2,800MB/s. I also tried an Orico enclosure which up until now is the fastest one that I have tested and it still won't go past 3,050MB/s. Buying Gen4 or better just for the speeds is not worth it if you're going to use it on an enclosure. The only two reasons to get Gen4/Gen5 NVMe's are if they price is lower than other current Gen3's or if you're future proofing, for example if you later plan to use the NVMe on a PC build.
@@JoeCastellon which orico did you tried?
@@Andresurfioll the clear one with 40gbps transfer speeds. Here's the video I made about it: ruclips.net/video/aaPQOgC_b0s/видео.html and you can see it on Amazon here: geni.us/j8A9
@@JoeCastellon thank you. i have a mac mini m2 pro, im really strugling on which is the best to buy beetween the acasis tbu405 pro or orico tcm2-u4. there is a new newq that seems go even faster due to its thunderbolt proper cable. what do you suggest?
@@Andresurfioll I'd be lying if I commented anything on the Newq as I haven't tested it. The product listing does look promising though. Now, based on my testing, though the Orico is generally faster than the Acasis, I feel like I trust the Acasis more, mostly because of it's metal build, and the speed difference does not make a difference at all in real world usage, at least to me. I really like the all metal build and that it is completely silent because it has no fan. There is a similar one with a built in fan in case that's important to you, but if you work in a climate controlled environment, you should be just fine without the fan.
I'm sorry if this sounds rude, but the one thing that bothered me the most was that I was only seeing 3/4 of your face most of the time on this video. Please edit so I see all your face, especially when you add links and other shortcuts. Otherwise, the all of the information was informative. Thanks!
Hey, thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment. I'm having trouble understanding what you mean by only seeing 3/4 of my face most of the time, as I don't think there's any point in the video where only part of my face is visible. Would you mind pointing out a timestamp in particular? I'm even wondering if by any chance you had your video zoomed in on your phone or something like that.
@@JoeCastellondrunk 😂 🍻
"This external SSD is faster than your M2 Mac's internal SSD!" ok so your mac internal is really the faster one so nice click baite dude,
I have the upgraded internal SSD. If you had seen the video, you’d seen that I explain the external SSD is faster than the base storage on the M2 Macs.
@@JoeCastellon Not true the base storage drive is at 3000Mbs. Your external is still slower.
The base storage of the M2 Macs is slower than the base storage of the M1 Macs.
Stfu bro your baggin on a small channel that provided good info all of RUclips is one big click bait with less value, go cry to mama
informative, but keep on having blatant lies and misinformation as your video title as a clickbait and your channel wont go far.
Which part is misinformation or blatant lies?
Are you kidding me quit your whining most RUclips has really large channels with Clickbait titles. This guy at least provided value.
@Steve. No, you don't know what you are talking about and YOU are misinformed, I have the M2 base model with more RAM and this exact enclosure with a slightly newer NVME drive and it's way faster than the default M2 256GB ssd. Everything in the video is true. Fool.
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@@JoeCastellon Their wording might sound a bit dramatizing, but technically they're correct. Assuming that every single M2 Mac owner addressed by the title's "you" bought the base storage version is evidently bizarre - as is acting clueless when being confronted with valid criticism while already the very first internal storage bench shown prominently demonstrates about double the performance of the external drive. That should have been the side note to be put at the end, not the crucial clarification that clearly needed to be pointed out first - which is, by the way, the exact thing that made me read comments and reply - conspicuous a$$-backwards practice like this only adds to OP's argument when generating viewer engagement seems to be the whole point of it.
Base M2 sucks... no comparison here
It’s still a great computer for a great number of users though
@@JoeCastellon Great? 8GB Ram are abysmal, 256GB SSD as well.
Too much corners cut on the base M1 and M2s, even on the M3 we still have low amount of RAM and SSD
@@harrison00xXxclearly it isn’t for you, but for a majority of users who only need to run a few basic apps, the base model is more than enough.