Storage media for M1 Studio

[AfterglowMP]

My M1 Studio has an internal 2TB drive but with multiple ongoing video editing projects, managing the media can be tricky. Usually, I back up footage to external HDDs, make proxies and edit from those off the M1's internal SSD. I saw a cheap Samsung T7 2TB SSD and thought that could be plugged in as a semi-permanent extra drive. Would it be risky to edit from this either using original 4K or proxy footage? The other advantage of this would be as daily back-up for system and other app info (admin docs, email, etc) which at the moment I only do every few days.

If I did this, could it be plugged into a simple two-way Thunderbolt/USB C hub with another cable getting good speeds on connection with my Mac Air?

 

[ewu]

I hope Apple consider to make mac mini/mac studio's internal storage upgradable by user.
although now we could buy some "nvme liked, upgradable ssd" for mac min/mac studio to upgrade.
but eventually it is not offical support. Windows PC can be upgraded to 8 or 16TB 5GB/s nvme SSD in super cheap price.

My suggestion is to buy a 4TB external SSD, install mac os in external ssd and boot from external ssd.

and then you could use like you have "internal" 4TB SSD and use internal 2TB SSD as "external" storage.