I just wanted to confirm setups that have worked with external TB3 enclosures and NVME drives. I was looking at getting one from Aliexpress and potentially matching with the WD Blue 550 NVME 1TB which is one of the low cost options. I have heard some conflicting reports about overheating, low performance or straight out not working with certain drives.
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Mac mini external thunderbolt NVME compatibility?
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I have a 1TB WD Blue 550 running in a Wavlink enclosure. The enclosure only supports single sided SSD's, so the WD blue is a good choice.
It is running fine. No disconnects and great speed (1950 write, 2130 read). I haven't really stressed it out to see if it would overheat, so I don't know about that. But I don't think the WD Blue is very power hungry.
It is running fine. No disconnects and great speed (1950 write, 2130 read). I haven't really stressed it out to see if it would overheat, so I don't know about that. But I don't think the WD Blue is very power hungry.
I use a Jeyi Thunderbolt 3 M.2 NVME enclosure with a 1TB Samsung EVO m.2 SSD. Speeds are constant and are Read:3100MB/s - Write: 2100MB/s. Temps around 50 degrees celcius.
Looks like great performance. Is there any difference between the Jeyi models? I see two available on aliexpress.
That’s good that the temps are relatively low, I had tried a Crucial product and it got extremely hot after a couple minutes and the performance dropped to 100MB/S.
My OWC 4M2 works perfectly on the M1. It has 4 NVME drives which I made into one RAID drive. Even the RAID got recognized immediately as one drive and I didn't have to install any drivers.