Add storage externally at TB3 speeds, as MUCH as you want, WHEN you want. The MM has thunderbolt 3 ports guys! The modularity is now EXTERNALIZED. Complaining that the MM is not modular it is, you have to step back and think outside of the case, literally and figuratively. they are locked into ‘old school’ thinking.
#Unidad nuc mindix upgrade#
It amazes me why some are so hung up on wanting to upgrade internal storage or not having room for 2nd SATA/SSD. With a pair of 500 GB 850 EVOs in RAID 0, I topped out at 857 MB/s write and 902 MB/s read.įurthermore, PCIe NVMe to USB 3.1 bridges are now becoming available, which will allow you to get similar performance from a single, relatively affordable, M.2 drive. When connected through a USB 3.0 hub, those scores only dropped to 434 MB/s write, 433 MB/s read. I put a 500 GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO in an inexpensive USB 3.1 external enclosure, connected it to the Thunderbolt 3 port of a 2016 MacBook Pro, and recorded sequential speeds in AJA System Test of up to 498 MB/s write and 529 MB/s read. However, the four Thunderbolt 3 ports also support USB 3.1 Gen 2 (SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps) natively. So no problem for your boot volume there.Īs far as external storage goes, the performance of SATA SSDs its only slightly limited by USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed USB 5 Gbps).
#Unidad nuc mindix mac#
From a performance perspective a dual drive setup where you have a 256/512 GB SSD as your boot drive and use a larger 1TB (or bigger) HDD or SSHH as your data drive for most is the better setup (not using a Fusion Drive)įor serious Music or Video work you’ll want a larger 1 or 2TB SSD and sue the fastest drive I/O the system offers.Įven the base configuration of the Mac mini comes with an internal 128 GB, PCIe 3.0 x4, NVMe SSD powered by Apple’s custom controller in the T2 chip. Even though SSD costs have dropped they are still more costly than the HDD or a SSHD drive or even most Fusion Drive setups. The whole reason caching like either were offered was SSD’s where still very expensive at the time. If you look in your drive info you won’t see it as the active volume only the HDD is listed.Īpples imputation of caching is done at the OS level unlike hybrid drives (like Seagate’s SSHD’s). Every data block is read or written via the SSD then to the HDD as the SSD is much faster in both access and read & write action.
In a Fusion Drive set you have the slower HDD which is the active storage space and then you have the hidden SSD which is the caching drive.
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