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Mac Mini M4 base model -
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Can I upgrade NVMe disk after purchase,... e.g. after a year 256GB NVMe replace with 512GB NVMe... ? In other words, in Mac Mini M4 base model is NVMe disk replaceable?
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HDMI in Mac Mini M4 base model can place 8K video? Or only in USB-C 4 of this can play 8K?
Mac mini (M4)
1) The SSD of the Mac mini is not upgradable after purchase. Order the storage that you might need in the foreseeable future. Of course, you can always add external storage along the way.
2) The M4 base mini can support 8K resolution at 60Hz via Thunderbolt or HDMI, but limited to two displays in that configuration.
Mac mini - Technical Specifications - Apple
In case I have cloned the internal SSD system drive to an external SSD system drive, … can have both as two boot options,… or boot system drives shouldn’t be with same drive signature as like is the case with Windows boot drives?
You could but there is no need. If you set the external SSD as the boot drive and then forget to connect it the computer will restart from the internal drive by default. Remember Mac OS is not MS Windows, they are different in the their designs and history. Mac OS tends to be a bit more sophisticated, Windows will do mostly what you want but getting there is much trickier for the unsophisticated.
I use the latest Acasis that works fine. However, if you want Max speed with the fastest NVME (i.e. WD SN850X, et. al) then you need the very latest chip which is in the Qwiizlab or Zike enclosure. I just tested the Gewokliy (same chip as Qwiizlab) with the WD SN850X and got over 3000 W/R using black Magic app on my Mac Mini M4.
tbirdvet wrote:
I use the latest Acasis that works fine. However, if you want Max speed with the fastest NVME (i.e. WD SN850X, et. al) then you need the very latest chip which is in the Qwiizlab or Zike enclosure. I just tested the Gewokliy (same chip as Qwiizlab) with the WD SN850X and got over 3000 W/R using black Magic app on my Mac Mini M4.
Mac minis that have M4 Pro chips have Thunderbolt 5 ports.
For those Mac minis, the OWC Envoy Ultra is probably the fastest external SSD that you can get. Other World Computing claims that when it is attached to a Thunderbolt 5 port, it can offer "over 6000 MB/s" "real-world" speed. Presumably that would be when transferring huge, high-resolution video files, since if you were doing Finder-based copying of many little files, Finder overhead would likely slow things down.
I know about the TB5 ports. However, based on latest testing of the OWC TB5 drive vs TB3-4 it was very disappointing. It appears most of the speed is from a large cache and once filled the speed drops down to almost the TB3-4 level so transferring large files is not that fats. That being said if all you do is small file work then yes the TB5 drive may be of some benefit but probably not much to the naked eye.
Which thunderbolt 4 or 5 enclosure is preferred for imac? I have 2 WD NVME sticks I never got around using in my gaming PC.
Mac Mini M4 upgrade NVMe disk after purchase, Can I
