Robert Watcher
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So glad I got the OWC 1M2 thunderbolt enclosure for expanding the storage on my base model MacMini M1. Speed test resulted in superior Write Read speed to the internal MacMini SSD —— and equal speeds to my new MacBook Air M4 internal SSD. I also ran a speed test on the Crucial XPro usb-c portable SSD for storing my data while traveling with my laptop.
Last year I purchased a matching Satechi hub for my 2020 MacMini M1 base model workstation. It gave me a few extra ports on the front as well as SD reader. Another appealing feature of this hub was that it also included an internal slot for NVME / SSD sticks. This meant that I could get rid of the external usb-c Sandisk portable drive that I was using to store data on, and have everything in one nice package on my desk.
I bought what my research showed was a very fast NVME stick with 2TB storage to put inside and use as my Work drive to transfer current work in and out of the computer as quickly as possible. That was a good size storage for my purpose because I have everything including the current work, backed up to large standard HHD’s as well as everything being backed up every day to BackBlaze online storage.
The transfer speed seemed decent, but I didn’t realize how much the fast NVME was being throttled because of the limitations of the Satechi enclosure. That aside, the biggest issue I started noticing is that the NVME would regularly detach from the MacMini —— which I soon learned was a protection to the NVME because of excessive heat being produced when running heavy tasks, which for me ended up being when I try and back up the whole NVME to one of my backup drives.
I had looked at enclosures previously but the price scared me away, plus I wasn’t sure that investing that kind of money would really benefit me. When I noticed this week that the price of the OWC enclosure on Amazon was reduced by $30, I felt it was time to give it a try and protect the significant investment I already had in the NVME. After being delivered by Amazon yesterday, I decided to record some video on my iPhone of assembling it as well as run some speed tests to see how I would benefit.
Unfortunately I am quite sick with the flu and can’t speak well, so I recorded the parts I wanted to mention in Voice Memo on my iPhone, used that app to convert what I said into text and then had chatGTP change text into speech and recorded the output to add to the audio timeline in Lumafushion on my iPad Mini7. As much as I wanted to turn all sound off while exporting the video, I know that I don’t like watching videos without sound. So I chopped up the generated vocal track, and added a track of room sound as well as a track with mouse clicks and scratching noises. LOL. So the voice isn’t mine and is obviously AI generated. But hopefully the content findings are useful to some.
Last year I purchased a matching Satechi hub for my 2020 MacMini M1 base model workstation. It gave me a few extra ports on the front as well as SD reader. Another appealing feature of this hub was that it also included an internal slot for NVME / SSD sticks. This meant that I could get rid of the external usb-c Sandisk portable drive that I was using to store data on, and have everything in one nice package on my desk.
I bought what my research showed was a very fast NVME stick with 2TB storage to put inside and use as my Work drive to transfer current work in and out of the computer as quickly as possible. That was a good size storage for my purpose because I have everything including the current work, backed up to large standard HHD’s as well as everything being backed up every day to BackBlaze online storage.
The transfer speed seemed decent, but I didn’t realize how much the fast NVME was being throttled because of the limitations of the Satechi enclosure. That aside, the biggest issue I started noticing is that the NVME would regularly detach from the MacMini —— which I soon learned was a protection to the NVME because of excessive heat being produced when running heavy tasks, which for me ended up being when I try and back up the whole NVME to one of my backup drives.
I had looked at enclosures previously but the price scared me away, plus I wasn’t sure that investing that kind of money would really benefit me. When I noticed this week that the price of the OWC enclosure on Amazon was reduced by $30, I felt it was time to give it a try and protect the significant investment I already had in the NVME. After being delivered by Amazon yesterday, I decided to record some video on my iPhone of assembling it as well as run some speed tests to see how I would benefit.
Unfortunately I am quite sick with the flu and can’t speak well, so I recorded the parts I wanted to mention in Voice Memo on my iPhone, used that app to convert what I said into text and then had chatGTP change text into speech and recorded the output to add to the audio timeline in Lumafushion on my iPad Mini7. As much as I wanted to turn all sound off while exporting the video, I know that I don’t like watching videos without sound. So I chopped up the generated vocal track, and added a track of room sound as well as a track with mouse clicks and scratching noises. LOL. So the voice isn’t mine and is obviously AI generated. But hopefully the content findings are useful to some.
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