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Seq read up to (MB/S) 5200
Seq write up to (MB/S) 4800
4k random read up to (MB/S) 540K
4k random write up to (MB/S) 600K
Endurance (TBW) 2800
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Mac Mini M4 owners would be far better off buying one of the third party SSD drives designed to replace the existing Apple SSD. These third party drives are faster than the Apple supply drives. This are not standard NVME drives.
No. Reasons:
There a quality ones around that don't come from Aliexpress. I'm sure there are 3rd party service centres that would sell and install these boards. Even if these boards are only 2TB, it is far better to have a faster and larger internal board. If people want to make backups then an external HDD is a far better option.
@whats up skip: Too hard for 90% of the people and too expensive. Also only 2TB. Only reserved for nerds and geeks that can tinker around.
Is this a good budget SSD? I'd be planning on using it as a working drive for astrophotography processing which requires a fair bit of temporary space (eg. around 200-400gb).
I've seen reviews of similar Crucial and HP 4TB nvmes and the reviews have been quite negative.
If it's mission critical for work then don't risk it, you may as well spend the extra money and buy a drive that won't fail or has lower chance of failing.
If it's just 4K movies, or music, then it doesn't matter.
Those are only your comment.
Read the comments in the linked thread from burnt customers
You're free to choose and buy this garbage
But don't complain when the drive suddenly taps out and you lose all your data, regardless of whether you have backups or not
There's a literal computer builder saying do not use them, as they experienced a 20% failure rate. Don't be so precious because you posted a less than ideal product.
Ok but can I get a verified link for the 20% failure rate figure? Is it on a review website? If it is 20% failure rate, why are local shops stocking them, that's a bit high. no?
@Dollar Dreamer: You obviously didn't read all the comments that YWW linked above. See the quote about the 20% failure rate. Personally I'd take the advice of an industry professional over a random citizen. The question you pose is pretty pointless…plenty of retailers sell completely dog shit merchandise, but that's why we have forums and ratings systems.
@Ham Dragon: Just a comment from 1 user. Does not mean there is a 20% failure rate. Entirely possible he got a Friday 4.59pm batch.
@Dollar Dreamer: Yes, and that's at odds with your claim that "those are only your comment". Clearly they are not, given the experience of someone who builds computers, and those on the reddit thread. It's not a personal attack on you, but if you post here expect people to scrutinise the product.
@Ham Dragon: Not an attack. Just providing facts. I know nerds and geeks over do it with research exhaustion and start freaking out on a few comments they find negative, most often it is a bad batch, etc. If that was a true figure of 20% failure rate, NO STORE would stock it, the liability issue would be too expensive for them with warranties. Have to stay calm and not get into over research paralysis that most nerds get into and start taking singular comments as gospel online and freaking out.
Perfect for new Mac Mini M4 owners who bought the base model 256GB and want a large external drive for their iPhone backups, download and media storage using a cheap Thunderbolt 3 / USB 4 enclosure. You don't need more than 3500MB/s speed for external storage if using base spec Mac Mini's as it won't let you go higher even with a higher speed NVME. So a cheaper NVME like this is perfect for that use case.