So my m4 studio will be adding a 4 nvme.2 enclosure.

[philipma1957]

I have a 2tb internal stock nvme.2 in my mac studio.
I have an external acasis nvme.2 80 speed case with a 4tb nvme.2 ssd

acasis has a kickstarter which is available now it will be a 4 pcie nvme.2 case

i paid 339 which will be billed in june with shipping in july. anyone take a look at the case besides me.

i do love my 1 nvme.2 drive from them

this is some guys video on it .

this setup would give me all the storage I need along with backups.

note i have no connection to the video. but i did do a kickstarter today.

 

[edubfromktown]

That's cool.

I'm sticking with two Sabrent EC-T3NS on my M1 MAX Studio (using two ports on the back). I get double the throughput with them setup RAID 0 compared to a single drive. I back up the array weekly in the unlikely event one fails as all data would be lost.

Many of the NVMe's sold these days are not DRAM-equipped. The ones I'm using are Kingston KC3000's which are darn near as fast as the latest Kingston Fury Renegades.

 

[philipma1957]

yeah this will handle all i need for years to come. decent price via kickstarter.

 

[JesterJJZ]

That 10 bay...😍

 

[philipma1957]

cant justify the ten bay. though it would be nice. i will post a photo or two when it comes

 

[Ifti]

I have that Acasis - currently testing, but it's looking mighty impressive.......
Have 4x4TB Crucial T710's installed at the moment. Have tested single drive performance as well as RAID. Can't fault it.....yet...... 😉

I also have the OWC 4M2 Ultra, which I'm also looking at right now......

 

[Ifti]

Here you go:

 

[benholt]

Running an Acasis single-bay TB4 enclosure with a KC3000 4TB on my Studio Ultra for about a year — Black Magic shows around 2,800 MB/s read and 2,600 write, which is basically the TB4 ceiling minus protocol overhead. The thing that bit me early was the heatsink: stock thermal pad left an air gap and the controller would throttle within 90 seconds of sustained writes (visible as a sharp drop from 2.6 GB/s down to about 900 MB/s mid-ProRes export). Re-pasting with a proper thermal pad fixed it. RAID 0 across 4 drives looks great on a benchmark but you won't see much benefit over a single fast NVMe for video scrub workloads since you're already pegged at the bus ceiling — the win is IOPS for scattered project files and reducing the cable mess.

 

[philipma1957]

My single bay is fast around 5000mb/s

It is used as a large 4tb boot drive. Pretty much flawless for about 6-7 months.

Yeah six seven had to do it.

 

[Ifti]

I'd love the 10 bay Acasis - I'd have half in RAID and the remaining could be used to run my current standalone drives - leaving me a couple of bays spare for future expansion........