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I wish all content producers made their videos like this one. Logical, an easy to listen to voice with no irritating upspeak (please, let this trend stop), no annoying and unnecessarily loud or lame music blaring over the voice, options presented, and links to the recommended products. Well done!!!
Actually I found his music annoying and a distraction to what he was saying. Just don’t have any music at all. I am here to listen to him, not the music.
@@sojourn6697 I totally agree. This low harmonic distracting keyboard "noise" playing the same note(s) over and over was terrible. Good info but excruciating to listen to!
The essence is in "TBW" - Total Bytes Written. If you have a 2TB drive and it can sustain a TBW of 600TB then that means that every block in the SSD can have memory cells rewritten 300 times. Another SSD may have a TBW of 6000TB and this then means it can survive 3,000 rewrites. Look at Samsung EVO versus PRO and their TBW. Note that TBW should be specified with the byte unit like TB, PB or GB. SSD and flash memory cards have a controller that does "wear leveling". If you place one file on an SSD, delete that file and next write a second file, then that second file, being the "first" on the drive, uses the space after the former file. This goes around and in that way memory the wear of blocks is leveled. We get better TBW from better memory cells (much more expensive) or from "over-provisioning" where more capacity is present to the wear leveling than visible to user and OS (more expensive) or even a combination of these in enterprise/data center SSD. The wear leveling is a thing of the SSD's firmware and controller, but can be inspected and from that an "SSD Health Report" can be derived. How do you extend the lifetime of your Mac (or PC)? By buying as large an SSD as possible and placing as little data on it as possible. Indeed, a large page file needs large space and if there are daily changes from rebooting daily, then the wear goes fast. Here, more (unused) capacity mens longer service life. If you keep "write once - read many" data on external storage, especially large volumes, then this helps a lot. Personally, I have an external, magnetic platter, drive for downloads that I watch/play/use off-line and later erase. While experience data builds with manufacturers or resellers of SSD and flash memory cards, they now start to move "over-provisioning" capacity from hidden to visible to user and OS. This is where the "odd" capacity numbers come from. That does not reduce TBW but it reduces TBW/visible_capacity - i.e. lifetime in terms of cell or block rewrites. Corollary is the question how long your data has its integrity guaranteed in an SSD. I suggest to read up on "spontaneous bit-flips" here. People with degrees in computer science, electronics and quantum physics may agree that they don't know and the answer is, left unpowered, between 7 and 7,000 hours, maybe. You would hope that your SSD has some ECC error-mitigation mechanism in place and you probably should store your data in a RAID 5 array that periodically does data scrubbing if said data is important and needs to be kept perfect for a long time. Now a bit fallen over in a JPEG or MPEG is no a big deal, but that same SSD has file allocation data structures and in there it may be disastrous. Note that simple RAID 1 (duplicate data) does not protect against data integrity loss and it is hard to decide between data mirrors which one is the correct one in case you would data scrub a RAID 1 volume. (RAID 1 offers availability, not integrity protection). Magnetic platters have spontaneous bit-flips, sure, but they are cheap and actually last long - provided you do not bang them around when they're running. And provided you only put drives in a physical array (case, cage) that are certified for that - magnetic desktop/workstation drives "kill" each other through vibration.
@Selectah Shots - the short answer is "yes". In the case of a laptop / notebook / pad computer, especially when you do not know if you get either the bare minimum SSD quality, something like Samsung EVO, or like Samsung Pro, then maxing out is a very good way to "buy" a long service life. And "never" restarting the darned thing. And if you have really important content that you want to keep forever, buy a simple NAS device (aka fileserver) with at least 3 drives in it and run that at RAID 5 (forget about "performance" as the device will never have to work faster than its network connection and in a household likely never has to serve more than one user at a time. RAID 5 is like RAID 0, but writes data twice: once as raw data and once as integrity check, so it loses RAID 0 performance, but uses less space than RAID 1 - mirroring without integrity checks). That fileserver does not necessarily have to have SSD (just make sure the HDD are NAS certified or data center or enterprise because desktop/workstation drives kill each other through their vibration) as HDD still are very cheap per TB of storage.
Uhh close but not quite. That means the WARRANTY will withstand that many writes. The WARRANTY will. Your television screen doesn't shatter at 2 years and the engine of your car doesn't blow through the hood at 60k miles but the WARRANTY will expire for all three. Only JEDEC-tested drives have anything resembling a life expectancy rating; namely for enterprise drives.
@@tim3172 - manufacturers like Samsung specify the lifetime expectancy of their SSD in TBW. All solid state drives are controlled by a controller with firmware that does "wear leveling" and to be able to do this, the firmware in the SSD keeps track of wear in its administration of it. This can be read with an app that knows how to do that. In the way a magnetic-platter-hard-drive could have a sector marked bad, the firmware will mark a block bad (render it unusable) once it has reached its TBW rating and there may be good cells in that block still in case the block was never completely filled. Beyond that, there is no guarantee of any form of data integrity. An example of an app that can inspect this is CrystalDiskInfo. The wear leveling firmware simply does a mark bad and you lose capacity over time. With a CFexpress Type B that can sustain 300 rewrite cycles being used in a video house that completely fills the card twice a day, it's over in 150 days. Period. There may be a few blocks left that haven't been marked bad and good luck to the buyer of this card in the second hand market. And this assumes they use a "reliable" brand. As to warranty or guarantee, these are legal constructs that limit a consumer's rights. Compare TBW to the automobile market's warranty where you get "5 years or 100,000 miles". The TBW serves as a way to limit our options to sue them for a product we think is not good enough. By not publishing TBW, a manufacturer bets on their statistics where the risk of litigation they guesstimate is very low compared to the potential sales effect of publishing the TBW number. While some manufacturers use cheaper memory cells with over-provisioning to get acceptable TBW and the illusion of a lower price, it is possible that some vendor alters the firmware and makes all over-provisioning capacity available to the user (operating system) - in this case you are down to the naked cell TBW. And then there are Chinese sellers that sell lithium cells with a product name 4,000 mAh with the excuse the mAh is just part of the model name maybe with a capacity of 500 mAh, making them very expensive. Imagine these criminals doing cheap memory cards. The problem with solid state is that nobody in electronics, physics or quantum physics can actually give you a definitive warranty on how long data integrity is retained when the memory is powered off. As long as we don't know the exact cell design and technology, the best answer is between 7 and 7,000 hours. There are 8760 hours in a year... . All this applies to memory cards in our cameras too - not just SSD.
For the Acasis case, which I own and like because of its performance and build quality, I want to add: - due to fact that the Acasis-labeled top side of the case is NOT the heat sink for the SSD but the bottom side I like to place the case upside down for better heat dissipation. Unfortunately this looks a little bit unintended. - the SSD may need up to two cooling pads stacked to get contact to the closing lid - I fitted thin and slim cooling pad strips between the side alu bars of the case and lid to enable heat transfer to the whole case as a heat sink.
APFS seems to only work for internal hard drives and DAS connected drives! However even old class hard drives seem not to like APFS so one should use HFS+ on old style drives connected!
@@terryrodbourn2793 I have an OWC Ministack for my Ventura-equipped Mac Studio; the Ministack has an 18 TB spinning platter. Despite the popular recommendation that APFS be used only for SSDs, it is now the default file system for Time Machine, regardless of drive type. Existing HFS Time Machine volumes will still work, but the default for creating a new Time Machine partition is APFS, internal or external, SSD or HDD. It works fine, but it's a pain in the butt to use Disk First Aid on it because it has to check _each_ snapshot, which means each incremental backup. 🙄 Why "DAS-connected drives"? Isn't the only alternative to that a network?
This was **so** incredibly helpful. I've been researching hard drives and SSDs for what feels like forever (because I have no idea what I'm doing but they're crucial to my workflow) and nothing has been this helpful and straightforward. THANK YOU!
I decided to spend the extra $200 on RAM, rather than getting 512 GB internal storage on my M1 Mac Mini. After that I bought a dock with an SSD bay and added 1 TB of storage. After 1.5 years everything works just fine.
Thank you, this was very helpful. One note: Rank beginners like me who attach an off-the-shelf SanDisk or Samsung external SSD to an external USB hub may find that MacOS starts producing multiple disconnect messages. I was able to solve this by buying a powered 5v USB hub - no more disconnects. In the end, though, I connected the drive directly to a USB-C port on the Mac Mini M1 to make room on the external hub.
Really interesting topic as I want to expand the storage on my Mac Mini. BUT, as someone with bad hearing, the background music made listening to this unbearable. I made it up to 4:27 before I gave up trying. To those with bad hearing, background music like this would be like breathing on your camera's lens and make it fogged over. Yes, you could make out that there is a person in the view, but the foggy lens would make seeing detail impossible. It's the same with background music to the hard of hearing. It's harder to hear the words and the music is much more distracting than it is for someone without hearing issues. Shame really, was keen to hear your conclusions. If you want to talk to me, talk to me. If you want to play music, play music. But never both at the same time.
I am a PC user but my wife swears by Mac. I got her an M1 mini last year and she loves it of course but she is not a power user by any means. Truth be told I’m not a fan of the inability to upgrade but I understand what this SOC is trying to do. At first watching this video I was thinking how dumb it is to add an external SSD but then I realized this is exactly what I do with my PC. I have a 500gb M.2 that I run an OS on plus one game that I regularly play. However all of my actual data is stored on a separate 1Tb SSD although I can just attach it internally via SATA. Even though Macs really aren’t my cup of tea this particular setup is what I’d recommend to anyone with a computer. I’m definitely not a fan of keeping an OS and data on the same disc. Cool video thanks. Edit: I also like the separate data drive because I wrote a short program that allows me to quickly backup my data to 2 separate HDD’s. What I do is use an external dock and plug in the HDD, I click an icon on my task bar and the primary SSD automatically backs up any new changes to my 2 Tb discs. This only take a few seconds and then they’re stored in different locations. So if my primary data SSD goes down I can be up and running as fast as I can walk to get my backup drive, with the USB dock I can hot swap immediately.
I would love to see a video on how you backup & keep your digital life organized. Like projects, working projects, finished projects ect. I’m mostly in the audio world but I’m sure it would help.
I'm running a mid 2011 27" Imac. I purchased a used Lacie external spinning drive with Thunderbolt connection just for the case. I took the spinning drive out of the case and replaced it with a Samsung Evo SSD. My entire system is now being run from this external drive. It's so much faster than the Mac's internal drive.
Thanks for the insight! I have been a heavy Mac user for 20+ years and hate all the b-brands that are out there for SSDs, enclosures, etc. Glad to know there are some dependable options!
Thanks for this in-depth explanation. Needing to expand my storage for work and I don't have the budget to buy a new mac, so this will do for now. Fire video.
Hey man, you're such a nice guy 🤘🏻 just transitioned from Win10 to a Macbook and it means a lot to me to have honest opinions from people who use this stuff on a daily basis.. Thanks so much again and keep up the good work 🙏🏻🤘🏻
I have always liked the OWC offerings. Great customer support and you can reach out to them to get help for your specific mac as well. Thanks for the good information. It is very helpful.
I’ll second this, I’ve been using OWC stuff for probably 25 years now. Good stuff, good support, and I always know it’ll be compatible with my Macs. 👍👍👍
First time I’ve seen one of your videos. Instant sub! So clear and concise! I’ve been trying to figure this stuff out for days and was so confused. You put everything in one video. Thank you.
I would like to point out that much of this wasn't due to VM swapping but programs having to use Rosetta 2, and/or tying into kernal_task to do their own VM. More over people were freaking out over the amount of data while _ignoring_ the *percentage used* information the very tools they were using was giving them. Using the percentage used figure resulted in SSD lasting at least a decade with the information being given.
You could do a video on how to use the external storage. E.g. how to move your user home folder to the external drive (maybe only suitable for desktops).
I just need the drive to back up pictures and files someplace to put them I just order Portable SSD T7 Shield USB 3.2 2TB (Blue) before I heard you say 3.2 might work:(
I bought Samsung T7 for my Mac mini M1 which is mainly for Apple Music library. Works fine. Then I bought a Sabernet USB enclosure with a cheap NVME gen three drive 500 GB. Formatted to Fat 32 EXT, still have a windows desktop I built. The cheap NVME drive is running about 832 compared to the Samsung T& at 645. On the windows machine its at 2035.
I enjoy my Macs, but I just upgraded my 2015 MBP to a 2TB Samsung drive, and it not only sped up my laptop, but I get better battery life now. While it's adequate for what I do, it's definitely getting long in the tooth. I think the last MBP with an upgradable SSD is the 2017 13 inch low-end model with the awful keyboard. That sucks, Apple over charges for their ram and storage, your video has some great solutions, and I'll check them out, thank you!
Brilliant. Thank you. It's a bit of a different story here in Australia. SSD prices run to about $220 for one with acceptable speeds. When you buy your Mac, additional RAM costs $300 (!) so the prices are very close.
Thanks Kyle. Great video. Purchased your recommended external drive enclosure and SSD. Works great and took all of about 15 minutes to get it up and running. If only all of my tech was so easy.
I bought a Mac Mini M1 to edit 4K Long GOP video. I had a very powerful PC that was extremly noisy and big and heavy that just wasn't able to do the job. The Mac Mini just made all that go away. I bought a bog standard 2TB M.2 SSD for £140 off eBay and used my old 1TB SATA SSD drive. Both of these drives are well quick enough. Footage is smooth as butter in Davinci Resolve 18. Don't go spending a shed load of money getting the fastest possible drive. Go for reliability over speed as the average speeds are fast enough.
It's weird. I asked Bard if I could replace or swap out the hard drive in my recent year MacBook Pro, It explained that it was soldered into the motherboard, etc. And then an hour later RUclips served me your video. Creepy, but glad it did. Great video. Definitely going to take your advice on everything in here and it was well explained. Appreciate your efforts 😅
I would suggest a NAS, you can then set it up for automated cloud backups (synology ones are very simple to set up). It is slower than a usb SSD to move stuff around, but way way safer from a backup perspective.
@@flintdavis2 "Network Attached Storage" the basic concept is a barebones computer that has A LOT of storage and it is attached to your local network. PS: and with a lot of storage you get to do stuff like raid 0, to have hard drive duplicates.
Bro, you are awesome. And when I say bro I mean my brother in the last lifetime... Love your low-key mellow style. Question: I want to get a Mac mini M2 pro for mostly editing video (Final Cut Pro), sound and Photoshop & other Adobe stuff. 1) Which configuration of the M2 Mac mini pro do you recommend? and 2) what would be the fastest external ssd (4TB) for the system? Looking for something as fast as the internal. Thanks for the great content--liked & subscribed.
ON the M1 and M2 macs can you have the system booting from the external drive? just thinking if you save money on the 256gig version then this would be good way to preserve internal SSD for selling later as there soldered to the board. Then i would add more memory instead of the heafty SSD apple upgrade costs. Great video :)
Kyle - thanks for this very informative video. I bought the Hyperdrive enclosure, after watching your review, but I think I should have paid closer attention when you discussed formatting the SSD after installing it in the enclosure. I had planned to partition the drive so I could use part of it for files and videos, and the other part for Time Machine backups. But I noted after rewatching it that you have to format the drive differently if you want to use it for Time Machine backups. Did I mess up in buying the enclosure and the SSD?
3 years back, I started to have problems with my iMac-2013. All of a sudden, it started to slow down drastically, showing that rolling ball. After extensive research on the net, I came to know that one can use an external drive not only for storage purposes but also to run macOS from it. For the last 3 years, my Mac is back to like a new mac with all its features working super fast. I am using Samsung SSD and it does wonders. No heating up or slowing down.
I do have a question. I am waiting on the arrival of my Mini M2 with 16gb memory and 256gb SSD. This will be the first time I have a computer with such a small internal drive (my previous iMacs had between 1tb and 3tb). Is it advisable to load apps on the external drive (I’m thinking Lightroom, Photoshop, and Topaz plugins)? Thank you
@@ditermejia6027 I am paying the price for being disorganized. With a 3TB internal drive I didn’t really pay attention to where everything was. Moving to 256GB has been a challenge but it’s working. I have a large external HDD and I plan to add a 40Gbps SSD which will probably hold my Lightroom catalogs and previews
MY Silicon M1 Mac Mini doesn’t seem to recognize my portable ssd’s when they’re connected to a USB hub though it tells me if it’s disconnected improperly. My Silicon M1 Mac Mini doesn’t want to recognize my portable SSD when its connected to a USB hub though somehow it nags me when it says the drive has been disconnected improperly. I did NOT have this issue with my Intel based Imacs.
Agreed with your points about what if the internal ssd dies! However no external solution can match the speed of the internal ssd especially with mac studios where ssd speeds are hitting 7k Mbps.
It's Crazy my internal drive toasted out 5 years ago so I have three external drives with 3 different OS (old favorite software compatibility issues}. After 5 years it all seems so normal.
Thank you for being so pedagogical and clear. The only thing I would say though that the background music is a little bit too loud, makes it slightly difficult to hear your voice. I think it is almost painful to listen to at the same time I am concentrating on your voice, but I might have very sensitive hearing.
You can copy applications to an external drive and run them from it?? I’ve been using Macs all day everyday for the last 27 years and this is brand new information to me 😮
Love that monitor! I recently purchased an M1 MacMini and settled for a ______ but I’m not very happy with it. What brand/model is that monitor? Thnx for the SSD info!
Hi Kyle! I have a question regarding your Acasis enclosure. Once the Mac goes to sleep, does the case (including the SSD) also go to sleep? According to several owners, the enclosure remains powered on and warm even after putting the Mac in sleep mode. Thanks for your reply.
Very good video, thanks. One question though... I bought the Acasis and the WD SN770, just like in the video. But I noticed that you didn't mention or show the Thermal Pad that comes with the Acasis that is to be applied to the SSD before installing. Thoughts?
Explaining wear and tear, and spending the extra dollar on a better brand, is something people tend to gloss over. They will regret it down the road. So him explaining it. Huzzah.
Kyle, thank you so much for explaining everything in details. In the first moment, I would pick Sandisk, but then, with this enclosure and thunderbolt the speed is 3x faster. Wow. Thanks.
Awesome video , just wondering if I do this on a 2015 iMac , will I be able to have the latest 2022 OS and also will I still be able to save stuff on the 1TB hard drive ? Thanks 😊
The problem I have is not enough usb-c ports. Don’t care about USB A need C. Even Ankers 13-1 don’t provide enough USB-C. I have connected to mine 3 external Hard drives, the other day my Mac-mini 2018 shut down two of the drives for drawing to much power. Could I take the Anker and plug a usb c hub into one of the USB-c ports and get around the power issue?
Thank you. Very helpful. I just bought an M2 Mac Mini, it has not arrived yet. This will be the first Mac I've ever owned. I think I will buy the Sandisk SSD for storage. I'll watch some of your other videos for additional tips. Any tips for first timers?
Before buying the SanDisk drive (if you’re considering 2tb and above) might want to check out the latest video I did on iPad external storage. They had a bad production run on them recently, larger drives I’d stick with the T7 or T7 shield
Ive just replaced my mid-2014 15" macbook pro. Really just because I need later OS (it can only go to 11.6) & GPU supported by recent software.. It's 512GB SSD is still working fine. I really don't think SSD lifetime is the limiting factor for most users.
I bought a couple 1Tb SanDisk Extreme Pro SSDs for photo editing (I had one and my partner had the other) on M1 Macbook Airs. after one year it one of them crashed while editing on Lightroom, never to be read again 😅 bottom line, blindly trusted that it was a good brand and a "PRO" grade ssd and now I have to pay half of what the content on that drive is worth to see what can be recovered😵 Hope this is good info for anyone looking to buy SSDs
i just bought a wd 4tb ssd to run on my brand new m2max, 38 core macbook pro. i formatted with the journal choice. did i goof? the drive was specifically for mac. i use this drive just for data only. photos video audio files and fcpx library
Very informative. Thank you. Yes, Apple’s internal SSD upgrade is pricey, so external drives are if you’re looking for speed. An external ssd has benefits anyway, as you said, but there’s no really a way around price.
The internal SSD will always smoke an external SSD for speed. My Mac Studio will probably top out at 700 MB/s or so via the OWC Ministack, but the internal SSD has hit _7,000_ MB/s. So move the baby pictures and music collection to the external drive and save internal capacity for video editing.
@@shane99ca What about sample libraries for music production? I'm looking to move over to Apple can you recommend a setup for at least 4tb of storage thank you.
@@kevinjackson7539 It's hard to make a recommendation without knowing how complex your mixes are, and whether you need it to be portable. Both the M2 MacBook Pro and the M1 Max Studio are available with up to 8 TB internal storage, plus virtually unlimited external storage via Thunderbolt. Internal storage on the Mac costs beaucoup bux-the 8 TB version of the MacBook is over $2,000 more expensive than the 1 TB version. Also, if all you're doing is audio, you certainly don't need 7 GB/s, which is actually fast enough for *12K video*, uncompressed. I'd say MacBook if you need it to be portable (a surprising number of content creators really do need this) and Mac Studio if a desktop setup is more your thing. Get as much internal storage as you can afford, but keep in mind even a Thunderbolt external SSD will almost certainly serve your needs, providing you don't need more than 700 MB/s.
@@shane99ca Thank you so much for the help. I usually create with samples and a few virtual instruments my songs are short and never exceed more than thirty tracks. If l move over to a Mac l have to replace my usb Apollo interface with a newer model because I’m so invested in UA plugins and l have to update my Waves plugins to v14 so they work with Silicon. I don’t do any video so I’m thinking about getting the 64gb-512gb model to save some money and just have Pro Tools and my plugins on the main drive and samples and music libraries on a fast external m.2 drive.
Great video mate. Learned a ton. I have been a mac user since 2006 and since it''s been around, I've been sceptical about Clean My Mac, I always thought it was a scam. Namaste x
Excellent presentation. I’ve just started looking into buying an external storage device that offers real time working performance, rather than just back up storage. This really helped me get going. Thanks. This is the second presentation I’ve seen of yours and both have been among the best technical explanations I’ve watched on RUclips.
I have a 2013 Mac Pro, which is over 8 years old and it's 1TB drive is still going strong, so I don't think the longevity of SSDs is any problem at all.
The new M1 Macs have a new issue that can possibly make the SSDs wear out faster (they pass data through the drive over and over again, an unusual amount). Your old computer doesn't have that issue, thankfully for you. :)
@@unicornonthecob4302 Sure, there was an issue where the SSD was being used more than required, but that was fixed way back in macOS 11.4. It's just not an issue.
I like the Enclosure you recommend… but I am looking for one that will accept external power, are you aware of one? Why? Because I sometimes need to connect to a Thunderbolt 2 Mac Book Pro as well as more modern lap tops.
Can you work directly on an External SSD to edit videos or photos, instead of exporting/importing back on Mac? Specifically when rendering content on adobe programs.
I am new to MAC's and got a lot of good info out of this video. But one question. I dragged and dropped my apps like you showed on to my external ssd. I can now access the apps from the icons on the SSD, but now the Mac thinks these apps are not installed and two apps when I open say there are updates but when I go to the App Store says the app is not installed and gives the option to download the app. I download the newer versions of the apps and then moved them to the ssd. Is there a better way than this? Did I over look something?
First off, great video. Thank you. Secondly, did you have to update the firmware on your 980 pro? If so, how? And if not, why? Since Samsung magician won’t work I’m scratching my head. Curious because I pulled the trigger on my new external based on your suggestions. I am starting from scratch, so I’d like to figure this out before I start loading it with files.
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Great vid thanks, will check the new one
I never understood why they all feel obliged to use background music……… O_o
I wish all content producers made their videos like this one. Logical, an easy to listen to voice with no irritating upspeak (please, let this trend stop), no annoying and unnecessarily loud or lame music blaring over the voice, options presented, and links to the recommended products. Well done!!!
I agree: especially on the over-hypey infomercial voice on all content... This channel is really fantastic. Glad to have found it.
The biggest thing that irritates me the most is talking hands!!!
Actually I found his music annoying and a distraction to what he was saying. Just don’t have any music at all. I am here to listen to him, not the music.
@@sojourn6697 I agree with John B. I found the music annoying and a distraction also. Good information contained in this video. Thank you.
@@sojourn6697 I totally agree. This low harmonic distracting keyboard "noise" playing the same note(s) over and over was terrible. Good info but excruciating to listen to!
The essence is in "TBW" - Total Bytes Written. If you have a 2TB drive and it can sustain a TBW of 600TB then that means that every block in the SSD can have memory cells rewritten 300 times. Another SSD may have a TBW of 6000TB and this then means it can survive 3,000 rewrites.
Look at Samsung EVO versus PRO and their TBW.
Note that TBW should be specified with the byte unit like TB, PB or GB.
SSD and flash memory cards have a controller that does "wear leveling". If you place one file on an SSD, delete that file and next write a second file, then that second file, being the "first" on the drive, uses the space after the former file. This goes around and in that way memory the wear of blocks is leveled.
We get better TBW from better memory cells (much more expensive) or from "over-provisioning" where more capacity is present to the wear leveling than visible to user and OS (more expensive) or even a combination of these in enterprise/data center SSD.
The wear leveling is a thing of the SSD's firmware and controller, but can be inspected and from that an "SSD Health Report" can be derived.
How do you extend the lifetime of your Mac (or PC)? By buying as large an SSD as possible and placing as little data on it as possible. Indeed, a large page file needs large space and if there are daily changes from rebooting daily, then the wear goes fast. Here, more (unused) capacity mens longer service life.
If you keep "write once - read many" data on external storage, especially large volumes, then this helps a lot.
Personally, I have an external, magnetic platter, drive for downloads that I watch/play/use off-line and later erase.
While experience data builds with manufacturers or resellers of SSD and flash memory cards, they now start to move "over-provisioning" capacity from hidden to visible to user and OS. This is where the "odd" capacity numbers come from. That does not reduce TBW but it reduces TBW/visible_capacity - i.e. lifetime in terms of cell or block rewrites.
Corollary is the question how long your data has its integrity guaranteed in an SSD. I suggest to read up on "spontaneous bit-flips" here. People with degrees in computer science, electronics and quantum physics may agree that they don't know and the answer is, left unpowered, between 7 and 7,000 hours, maybe. You would hope that your SSD has some ECC error-mitigation mechanism in place and you probably should store your data in a RAID 5 array that periodically does data scrubbing if said data is important and needs to be kept perfect for a long time. Now a bit fallen over in a JPEG or MPEG is no a big deal, but that same SSD has file allocation data structures and in there it may be disastrous. Note that simple RAID 1 (duplicate data) does not protect against data integrity loss and it is hard to decide between data mirrors which one is the correct one in case you would data scrub a RAID 1 volume. (RAID 1 offers availability, not integrity protection).
Magnetic platters have spontaneous bit-flips, sure, but they are cheap and actually last long - provided you do not bang them around when they're running. And provided you only put drives in a physical array (case, cage) that are certified for that - magnetic desktop/workstation drives "kill" each other through vibration.
@Selectah Shots - the short answer is "yes". In the case of a laptop / notebook / pad computer, especially when you do not know if you get either the bare minimum SSD quality, something like Samsung EVO, or like Samsung Pro, then maxing out is a very good way to "buy" a long service life. And "never" restarting the darned thing.
And if you have really important content that you want to keep forever, buy a simple NAS device (aka fileserver) with at least 3 drives in it and run that at RAID 5 (forget about "performance" as the device will never have to work faster than its network connection and in a household likely never has to serve more than one user at a time. RAID 5 is like RAID 0, but writes data twice: once as raw data and once as integrity check, so it loses RAID 0 performance, but uses less space than RAID 1 - mirroring without integrity checks). That fileserver does not necessarily have to have SSD (just make sure the HDD are NAS certified or data center or enterprise because desktop/workstation drives kill each other through their vibration) as HDD still are very cheap per TB of storage.
Uhh close but not quite.
That means the WARRANTY will withstand that many writes.
The WARRANTY will.
Your television screen doesn't shatter at 2 years and the engine of your car doesn't blow through the hood at 60k miles but the WARRANTY will expire for all three.
Only JEDEC-tested drives have anything resembling a life expectancy rating; namely for enterprise drives.
@@tim3172 - manufacturers like Samsung specify the lifetime expectancy of their SSD in TBW. All solid state drives are controlled by a controller with firmware that does "wear leveling" and to be able to do this, the firmware in the SSD keeps track of wear in its administration of it. This can be read with an app that knows how to do that. In the way a magnetic-platter-hard-drive could have a sector marked bad, the firmware will mark a block bad (render it unusable) once it has reached its TBW rating and there may be good cells in that block still in case the block was never completely filled. Beyond that, there is no guarantee of any form of data integrity. An example of an app that can inspect this is CrystalDiskInfo. The wear leveling firmware simply does a mark bad and you lose capacity over time. With a CFexpress Type B that can sustain 300 rewrite cycles being used in a video house that completely fills the card twice a day, it's over in 150 days. Period. There may be a few blocks left that haven't been marked bad and good luck to the buyer of this card in the second hand market. And this assumes they use a "reliable" brand.
As to warranty or guarantee, these are legal constructs that limit a consumer's rights.
Compare TBW to the automobile market's warranty where you get "5 years or 100,000 miles". The TBW serves as a way to limit our options to sue them for a product we think is not good enough. By not publishing TBW, a manufacturer bets on their statistics where the risk of litigation they guesstimate is very low compared to the potential sales effect of publishing the TBW number. While some manufacturers use cheaper memory cells with over-provisioning to get acceptable TBW and the illusion of a lower price, it is possible that some vendor alters the firmware and makes all over-provisioning capacity available to the user (operating system) - in this case you are down to the naked cell TBW.
And then there are Chinese sellers that sell lithium cells with a product name 4,000 mAh with the excuse the mAh is just part of the model name maybe with a capacity of 500 mAh, making them very expensive. Imagine these criminals doing cheap memory cards.
The problem with solid state is that nobody in electronics, physics or quantum physics can actually give you a definitive warranty on how long data integrity is retained when the memory is powered off. As long as we don't know the exact cell design and technology, the best answer is between 7 and 7,000 hours. There are 8760 hours in a year... .
All this applies to memory cards in our cameras too - not just SSD.
For the Acasis case, which I own and like because of its performance and build quality, I want to add:
- due to fact that the Acasis-labeled top side of the case is NOT the heat sink for the SSD but the bottom side I like to place the case upside down for better heat dissipation. Unfortunately this looks a little bit unintended.
- the SSD may need up to two cooling pads stacked to get contact to the closing lid
- I fitted thin and slim cooling pad strips between the side alu bars of the case and lid to enable heat transfer to the whole case as a heat sink.
could you show a picture of how installed your cooling pad strips on your case? 🙄
I liked the video but the background music is very annoying
yea,it so hard to hear with the loud crappy music
I liked the comment but the background attitude is very annoying.
The music is absolutely appalling in this - it is so distracting
Actually its quite nice tune, just does not fit into explanatory video. Or it is simply to loud in this video
I find it soothing
Just a note here: you can also use APFS for time machine. In fact, it might be the standard now since macOS Big Sur.
APFS seems to only work for internal hard drives and DAS connected drives! However even old class hard drives seem not to like APFS so one should use HFS+ on old style drives connected!
@@terryrodbourn2793 I have an OWC Ministack for my Ventura-equipped Mac Studio; the Ministack has an 18 TB spinning platter. Despite the popular recommendation that APFS be used only for SSDs, it is now the default file system for Time Machine, regardless of drive type.
Existing HFS Time Machine volumes will still work, but the default for creating a new Time Machine partition is APFS, internal or external, SSD or HDD. It works fine, but it's a pain in the butt to use Disk First Aid on it because it has to check _each_ snapshot, which means each incremental backup. 🙄
Why "DAS-connected drives"? Isn't the only alternative to that a network?
Correct. I use APFS for my external SSD Time Machine backups without any issues.
Great thxxxxx
This was **so** incredibly helpful. I've been researching hard drives and SSDs for what feels like forever (because I have no idea what I'm doing but they're crucial to my workflow) and nothing has been this helpful and straightforward. THANK YOU!
I agree
It’s awesome how he goes through all these concepts while keeping things easy. Really really helpful.
I decided to spend the extra $200 on RAM, rather than getting 512 GB internal storage on my M1 Mac Mini. After that I bought a dock with an SSD bay and added 1 TB of storage. After 1.5 years everything works just fine.
Which dock did you get?
@@timeandtides8701 a Chinese one called Hagibis.
Thank you, this was very helpful. One note: Rank beginners like me who attach an off-the-shelf SanDisk or Samsung external SSD to an external USB hub may find that MacOS starts producing multiple disconnect messages. I was able to solve this by buying a powered 5v USB hub - no more disconnects. In the end, though, I connected the drive directly to a USB-C port on the Mac Mini M1 to make room on the external hub.
bro that was a really great transition to the sponsor. i watched the whole sequence for the first time in my life
Really interesting topic as I want to expand the storage on my Mac Mini. BUT, as someone with bad hearing, the background music made listening to this unbearable. I made it up to 4:27 before I gave up trying. To those with bad hearing, background music like this would be like breathing on your camera's lens and make it fogged over. Yes, you could make out that there is a person in the view, but the foggy lens would make seeing detail impossible. It's the same with background music to the hard of hearing. It's harder to hear the words and the music is much more distracting than it is for someone without hearing issues. Shame really, was keen to hear your conclusions. If you want to talk to me, talk to me. If you want to play music, play music. But never both at the same time.
And to add, yes I can turn on Captions and mute the sound, but I'd rather just read someone's blog post on the topic.
I am a PC user but my wife swears by Mac. I got her an M1 mini last year and she loves it of course but she is not a power user by any means. Truth be told I’m not a fan of the inability to upgrade but I understand what this SOC is trying to do. At first watching this video I was thinking how dumb it is to add an external SSD but then I realized this is exactly what I do with my PC. I have a 500gb M.2 that I run an OS on plus one game that I regularly play. However all of my actual data is stored on a separate 1Tb SSD although I can just attach it internally via SATA. Even though Macs really aren’t my cup of tea this particular setup is what I’d recommend to anyone with a computer. I’m definitely not a fan of keeping an OS and data on the same disc. Cool video thanks.
Edit: I also like the separate data drive because I wrote a short program that allows me to quickly backup my data to 2 separate HDD’s. What I do is use an external dock and plug in the HDD, I click an icon on my task bar and the primary SSD automatically backs up any new changes to my 2 Tb discs. This only take a few seconds and then they’re stored in different locations. So if my primary data SSD goes down I can be up and running as fast as I can walk to get my backup drive, with the USB dock I can hot swap immediately.
Just a note, you can use APFS for Time Machine as well for a while already. No need to use anything else for SSDs.
In fact it seems to be the default option now
I would love to see a video on how you backup & keep your digital life organized. Like projects, working projects, finished projects ect. I’m mostly in the audio world but I’m sure it would help.
Noted!
Yeah same here - good question
Yes, please!
insane quality relative to sub count, really great work, thank you! I just got a Mac Studio and will def be using this option to expand storage.
I'm running a mid 2011 27" Imac.
I purchased a used Lacie external spinning drive with Thunderbolt connection just for the case.
I took the spinning drive out of the case and replaced it with a Samsung Evo SSD.
My entire system is now being run from this external drive.
It's so much faster than the Mac's internal drive.
Thanks for the insight! I have been a heavy Mac user for 20+ years and hate all the b-brands that are out there for SSDs, enclosures, etc. Glad to know there are some dependable options!
Thanks for this in-depth explanation. Needing to expand my storage for work and I don't have the budget to buy a new mac, so this will do for now. Fire video.
Hey man, you're such a nice guy 🤘🏻 just transitioned from Win10 to a Macbook and it means a lot to me to have honest opinions from people who use this stuff on a daily basis.. Thanks so much again and keep up the good work 🙏🏻🤘🏻
I have always liked the OWC offerings. Great customer support and you can reach out to them to get help for your specific mac as well. Thanks for the good information. It is very helpful.
I’ll second this, I’ve been using OWC stuff for probably 25 years now. Good stuff, good support, and I always know it’ll be compatible with my Macs. 👍👍👍
First time I’ve seen one of your videos. Instant sub! So clear and concise! I’ve been trying to figure this stuff out for days and was so confused. You put everything in one video. Thank you.
I would like to point out that much of this wasn't due to VM swapping but programs having to use Rosetta 2, and/or tying into kernal_task to do their own VM. More over people were freaking out over the amount of data while _ignoring_ the *percentage used* information the very tools they were using was giving them. Using the percentage used figure resulted in SSD lasting at least a decade with the information being given.
And besides, everyone here backs up their data, right? RIGHT?
You could do a video on how to use the external storage. E.g. how to move your user home folder to the external drive (maybe only suitable for desktops).
I just need the drive to back up pictures and files someplace to put them I just order Portable SSD T7 Shield USB 3.2 2TB (Blue) before I heard you say 3.2 might work:(
will running the apps stored on the sdd relief the swap memory issues the people talk about. im considering 24gb ram 256 ssd + this external option.
I bought Samsung T7 for my Mac mini M1 which is mainly for Apple Music library. Works fine. Then I bought a Sabernet USB enclosure with a cheap NVME gen three drive 500 GB. Formatted to Fat 32 EXT, still have a windows desktop I built. The cheap NVME drive is running about 832 compared to the Samsung T& at 645. On the windows machine its at 2035.
This is very helpful! This is the best video I’ve seen about this topic. It will save people a lot of money who use Macs. Thank you for making it!
I enjoy my Macs, but I just upgraded my 2015 MBP to a 2TB Samsung drive, and it not only sped up my laptop, but I get better battery life now. While it's adequate for what I do, it's definitely getting long in the tooth. I think the last MBP with an upgradable SSD is the 2017 13 inch low-end model with the awful keyboard. That sucks, Apple over charges for their ram and storage, your video has some great solutions, and I'll check them out, thank you!
Brilliant. Thank you. It's a bit of a different story here in Australia. SSD prices run to about $220 for one with acceptable speeds. When you buy your Mac, additional RAM costs $300 (!) so the prices are very close.
Thanks Kyle. Great video. Purchased your recommended external drive enclosure and SSD. Works great and took all of about 15 minutes to get it up and running. If only all of my tech was so easy.
I bought a Mac Mini M1 to edit 4K Long GOP video. I had a very powerful PC that was extremly noisy and big and heavy that just wasn't able to do the job. The Mac Mini just made all that go away. I bought a bog standard 2TB M.2 SSD for £140 off eBay and used my old 1TB SATA SSD drive. Both of these drives are well quick enough. Footage is smooth as butter in Davinci Resolve 18. Don't go spending a shed load of money getting the fastest possible drive. Go for reliability over speed as the average speeds are fast enough.
I just upgraded my old Mac mini HDD to an SSD and used the old 500GB HDD in an external enclosure for my time machine back ups. 🤷♂️
It's weird. I asked Bard if I could replace or swap out the hard drive in my recent year MacBook Pro, It explained that it was soldered into the motherboard, etc. And then an hour later RUclips served me your video. Creepy, but glad it did. Great video. Definitely going to take your advice on everything in here and it was well explained. Appreciate your efforts 😅
I would suggest a NAS, you can then set it up for automated cloud backups (synology ones are very simple to set up).
It is slower than a usb SSD to move stuff around, but way way safer from a backup perspective.
NAS?
@@flintdavis2 "Network Attached Storage" the basic concept is a barebones computer that has A LOT of storage and it is attached to your local network.
PS: and with a lot of storage you get to do stuff like raid 0, to have hard drive duplicates.
Which is better for Time Machine backup: a SSD or an external HD?
Bro, you are awesome. And when I say bro I mean my brother in the last lifetime... Love your low-key mellow style. Question: I want to get a Mac mini M2 pro for mostly editing video (Final Cut Pro), sound and Photoshop & other Adobe stuff. 1) Which configuration of the M2 Mac mini pro do you recommend? and 2) what would be the fastest external ssd (4TB) for the system? Looking for something as fast as the internal. Thanks for the great content--liked & subscribed.
ON the M1 and M2 macs can you have the system booting from the external drive? just thinking if you save money on the 256gig version then this would be good way to preserve internal SSD for selling later as there soldered to the board. Then i would add more memory instead of the heafty SSD apple upgrade costs. Great video :)
thank you for making such clean, straight-forward videos. it's an under appreciated skill
can we boot mac os directly from the external ssd? for the longevity of the internal ssd
Hi, can the same external SSD be used between different Mac without any problems ?
Very helpful and detailed video. Thanks for taking the the time to make it. The repetitive music was just a little distracting.
Kyle - thanks for this very informative video. I bought the Hyperdrive enclosure, after watching your review, but I think I should have paid closer attention when you discussed formatting the SSD after installing it in the enclosure. I had planned to partition the drive so I could use part of it for files and videos, and the other part for Time Machine backups. But I noted after rewatching it that you have to format the drive differently if you want to use it for Time Machine backups. Did I mess up in buying the enclosure and the SSD?
3 years back, I started to have problems with my iMac-2013. All of a sudden, it started to slow down drastically, showing that rolling ball. After extensive research on the net, I came to know that one can use an external drive not only for storage purposes but also to run macOS from it. For the last 3 years, my Mac is back to like a new mac with all its features working super fast. I am using Samsung SSD and it does wonders. No heating up or slowing down.
Hi.
Can you please explain how you did it?
Thank you very much.
@@ilandvash6746 Hello. That was several years back, but I am pasting here a link and that is exactly what I did. I hope it will help you.
Make sure you buy a good SSD, not a cheap one
@@drcoolcat
Hi. I cannot find the link...
Thanks.
ruclips.net/video/QBXa4oYeZns/видео.html
probably the most eliquently delivered video i've seen. very nice work! Liked and Subscribed.
Thank you - I appreciate it!
Great info, but can you kill that electric piano loop in the background? It's a bit unsettling. Thank you and thank you for the valuable work. Cheers!
I got 4 of the sandisk extreme 1 tb drives because I found them on sale. They’re great but they get really, really hot.
well done bud! I watched so many videos about this and this one has been the best so far! thank you!
I do have a question. I am waiting on the arrival of my Mini M2 with 16gb memory and 256gb SSD. This will be the first time I have a computer with such a small internal drive (my previous iMacs had between 1tb and 3tb). Is it advisable to load apps on the external drive (I’m thinking Lightroom, Photoshop, and Topaz plugins)? Thank you
Hey I got the 256 go as well and I work with wedding photo and video. Are u using an external ssd ? If so how’s it going?
@@ditermejia6027 I am paying the price for being disorganized. With a 3TB internal drive I didn’t really pay attention to where everything was. Moving to 256GB has been a challenge but it’s working. I have a large external HDD and I plan to add a 40Gbps SSD which will probably hold my Lightroom catalogs and previews
MY Silicon M1 Mac Mini doesn’t seem to recognize my portable ssd’s when they’re connected to a USB hub though it tells me if it’s disconnected improperly.
My Silicon M1 Mac Mini doesn’t want to recognize my portable SSD when its connected to a USB hub though somehow it nags me when it says the drive has been disconnected improperly.
I did NOT have this issue with my Intel based Imacs.
Good job bro.what’s the name of the cleaner again?
According to lot of reviews there is a data loss issue in Sandisk Extreme portable SSD which is not addressed here
Agreed with your points about what if the internal ssd dies! However no external solution can match the speed of the internal ssd especially with mac studios where ssd speeds are hitting 7k Mbps.
I like how when the SSD dies it bricks the whole machine and isn't user replaceable. Fantastic engineering, really👍
It's Crazy my internal drive toasted out 5 years ago so I have three external drives with 3 different OS (old favorite software compatibility issues}. After 5 years it all seems so normal.
Just bought a mac mini, 16GB, 256GB. Without watching this video. Had the same thought in mind as you told here.
On 2018 and newer - Use external Thunderbolt as boot drive - must be Thunderbolt only ssd - Samsung X5
Super helpful just subscribed
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for being so pedagogical and clear. The only thing I would say though that the background music is a little bit too loud, makes it slightly difficult to hear your voice. I think it is almost painful to listen to at the same time I am concentrating on your voice, but I might have very sensitive hearing.
You can copy applications to an external drive and run them from it?? I’ve been using Macs all day everyday for the last 27 years and this is brand new information to me 😮
Love that monitor! I recently purchased an M1 MacMini and settled for a ______ but I’m not very happy with it. What brand/model is that monitor?
Thnx for the SSD info!
I am looking to get a Mac Mini and will probably need an external SSD to go with it - this was super helpful.
Hi Kyle! I have a question regarding your Acasis enclosure. Once the Mac goes to sleep, does the case (including the SSD) also go to sleep? According to several owners, the enclosure remains powered on and warm even after putting the Mac in sleep mode.
Thanks for your reply.
Hello. Can you tell us what the name of those figurines you have on your desk? They look awesome.
Damn, so much information well presented and packed into a short and well edited video. Great job!
Very good video, thanks. One question though... I bought the Acasis and the WD SN770, just like in the video. But I noticed that you didn't mention or show the Thermal Pad that comes with the Acasis that is to be applied to the SSD before installing. Thoughts?
So is it worth to upgrade or to buy external?
bruh the video shows the answer lol
Explaining wear and tear, and spending the extra dollar on a better brand, is something people tend to gloss over. They will regret it down the road. So him explaining it. Huzzah.
I have seen reports in Amazon that ACASIS enclosure with WD 750 reaches 40 Gbps speeds changing the included cable for a certified TB4 cable.
It actually worthy. I am using it for almost all of my Mac from a long time. ❤
which ssd is good for m1 Mac air..for fat video editing ?
Do you know about the problem of USB connections being dropped by OSX to SSD drives attached via the USB-C ports via the low end USB hubs?
Kyle, thank you so much for explaining everything in details. In the first moment, I would pick Sandisk, but then, with this enclosure and thunderbolt the speed is 3x faster. Wow. Thanks.
Any comments or updates for the Mac Mini M2 when it comes to external storage. Looking at SSD options.
Should be the same, the ports are the same specs as the m1 mini.
Awesome video , just wondering if I do this on a 2015 iMac , will I be able to have the latest 2022 OS and also will I still be able to save stuff on the 1TB hard drive ? Thanks 😊
Most people video on this topic I’ve seen! Well done, thank you!
The problem I have is not enough usb-c ports. Don’t care about USB A need C. Even Ankers 13-1 don’t provide enough USB-C. I have connected to mine 3 external Hard drives, the other day my Mac-mini 2018 shut down two of the drives for drawing to much power. Could I take the Anker and plug a usb c hub into one of the USB-c ports and get around the power issue?
For the same price of $500…is a pre-owned m1 Mac mini 16gb/256gb better than a new M2 base model?
Would you be able to use an NVMe? Would there be an issue with it being compatible with any Mac? I have 2012 and a 2018 mini macs
Why can’t you download the same apps that are on your phone. Like Amazon shopping.
Thank you. Very helpful. I just bought an M2 Mac Mini, it has not arrived yet. This will be the first Mac I've ever owned. I think I will buy the Sandisk SSD for storage. I'll watch some of your other videos for additional tips. Any tips for first timers?
Before buying the SanDisk drive (if you’re considering 2tb and above) might want to check out the latest video I did on iPad external storage. They had a bad production run on them recently, larger drives I’d stick with the T7 or T7 shield
@Message-kyleEricksin Sorry, I'm 67 and I don't know how to do that. Is there another way?
Is it possible that I could install Max osx on an external HD? So that way the os would be portable?
Great video . Useful info . The music is detracting from the valuable vocal track
Ive just replaced my mid-2014 15" macbook pro. Really just because I need later OS (it can only go to 11.6) & GPU supported by recent software.. It's 512GB SSD is still working fine. I really don't think SSD lifetime is the limiting factor for most users.
I bought a couple 1Tb SanDisk Extreme Pro SSDs for photo editing (I had one and my partner had the other) on M1 Macbook Airs. after one year it one of them crashed while editing on Lightroom, never to be read again 😅 bottom line, blindly trusted that it was a good brand and a "PRO" grade ssd and now I have to pay half of what the content on that drive is worth to see what can be recovered😵
Hope this is good info for anyone looking to buy SSDs
oh no i wanted to buy one for lightroom editing :((
i just bought a wd 4tb ssd to run on my brand new m2max, 38 core macbook pro. i formatted with the journal choice. did i goof? the drive was specifically for mac. i use this drive just for data only. photos video audio files and fcpx library
in my use case I generally left the SSD with NTFS format and use NTFS for Mac on my computer
Very informative. Thank you. Yes, Apple’s internal SSD upgrade is pricey, so external drives are if you’re looking for speed. An external ssd has benefits anyway, as you said, but there’s no really a way around price.
The internal SSD will always smoke an external SSD for speed. My Mac Studio will probably top out at 700 MB/s or so via the OWC Ministack, but the internal SSD has hit _7,000_ MB/s. So move the baby pictures and music collection to the external drive and save internal capacity for video editing.
@@shane99ca What about sample libraries for music production? I'm looking to move over to Apple can you recommend a setup for at least 4tb of storage thank you.
@@kevinjackson7539 It's hard to make a recommendation without knowing how complex your mixes are, and whether you need it to be portable. Both the M2 MacBook Pro and the M1 Max Studio are available with up to 8 TB internal storage, plus virtually unlimited external storage via Thunderbolt.
Internal storage on the Mac costs beaucoup bux-the 8 TB version of the MacBook is over $2,000 more expensive than the 1 TB version. Also, if all you're doing is audio, you certainly don't need 7 GB/s, which is actually fast enough for *12K video*, uncompressed.
I'd say MacBook if you need it to be portable (a surprising number of content creators really do need this) and Mac Studio if a desktop setup is more your thing. Get as much internal storage as you can afford, but keep in mind even a Thunderbolt external SSD will almost certainly serve your needs, providing you don't need more than 700 MB/s.
@@shane99ca Thank you so much for the help. I usually create with samples and a few virtual instruments my songs are short and never exceed more than thirty tracks. If l move over to a Mac l have to replace my usb Apollo interface with a newer model because I’m so invested in UA plugins and l have to update my Waves plugins to v14 so they work with Silicon. I don’t do any video so I’m thinking about getting the 64gb-512gb model to save some money and just have Pro Tools and my plugins on the main drive and samples and music libraries on a fast external m.2 drive.
@@shane99ca l forgot to say I’m looking at the Studio
Great video mate. Learned a ton. I have been a mac user since 2006 and since it''s been around, I've been sceptical about Clean My Mac, I always thought it was a scam. Namaste x
Excellent presentation. I’ve just started looking into buying an external storage device that offers real time working performance, rather than just back up storage. This really helped me get going. Thanks.
This is the second presentation I’ve seen of yours and both have been among the best technical explanations I’ve watched on RUclips.
I use FCPX on my MacBook Pro, but my internal HD is getting full, I just want to add to my storage? Would a internal HD work? And how do I add it?
Does this all Go for the m2 .Mac mini aswell?
I have a 2013 Mac Pro, which is over 8 years old and it's 1TB drive is still going strong, so I don't think the longevity of SSDs is any problem at all.
The new M1 Macs have a new issue that can possibly make the SSDs wear out faster (they pass data through the drive over and over again, an unusual amount). Your old computer doesn't have that issue, thankfully for you. :)
@@unicornonthecob4302 Sure, there was an issue where the SSD was being used more than required, but that was fixed way back in macOS 11.4. It's just not an issue.
I like the Enclosure you recommend… but I am looking for one that will accept external power, are you aware of one? Why? Because I sometimes need to connect to a Thunderbolt 2 Mac Book Pro as well as more modern lap tops.
could've mentioned that the app won't let you delete the files without the pro subscription
Can you work directly on an External SSD to edit videos or photos, instead of exporting/importing back on Mac? Specifically when rendering content on adobe programs.
I am new to MAC's and got a lot of good info out of this video. But one question. I dragged and dropped my apps like you showed on to my external ssd. I can now access the apps from the icons on the SSD, but now the Mac thinks these apps are not installed and two apps when I open say there are updates but when I go to the App Store says the app is not installed and gives the option to download the app. I download the newer versions of the apps and then moved them to the ssd. Is there a better way than this? Did I over look something?
I want to get a 4tb SanDisk 3.0 USB, but don't know if it will work on my late 2012 1tb iMac that only has 2.0 USB. Will it not speed it up?
First off, great video. Thank you.
Secondly, did you have to update the firmware on your 980 pro? If so, how? And if not, why? Since Samsung magician won’t work I’m scratching my head. Curious because I pulled the trigger on my new external based on your suggestions. I am starting from scratch, so I’d like to figure this out before I start loading it with files.
Oops. For some reason I thought you used to 980 Pro.
so did you separate your system osx and apps from your files on the separate drives? Or is it best to put osx on the internal?