Best SSD external drive for Mac M1 Studio?

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Best SSD external drive for Mac M1 Studio?

Old drive keeps disconnecting from M1 Mac Studio. Neither Apple nor Western Digital could resolve it. I need a 2 TB drive with a stable connection.

Posted on Jan 11, 2023 11:33 AM

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WayneJStewart

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Mar 8, 2023 02:56 PM in response to tbirdvet

I use WD Black SN850 and Kingston KC3000 drives in Orico 40Gbps NVMe thunderbolt cases. I get 2.6gbps. It makes USB SATA hard drives feel like floppy disks:)

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Jan 11, 2023 11:36 AM in response to Roccaforte

Bus powered drives are widely variable in their ability to survive the built-in drop in Bus power when the Mac sleeps.

For best results, use a powered hub or a self-powered drive.

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Roccaforte Author

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Jan 12, 2023 07:20 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Thanks for your reply. Mac sleep is not the issue. I put the machine to sleep manually when I won't be using it for some time. The point is: A fully functioning 2 TB G Drive external with a dedicated power adapter habitually disconnects from the Mac Studio M1 while in use. Never happened with my old iMac. The issue was elevated to Mac engineering and G Drive support without resolution. Apparently I'm just out of luck and $.

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DonH49

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Jan 12, 2023 02:42 PM in response to Roccaforte

I use the 3 bay NVMe Sonnet Echo. I bought the Pale cards from OWC. I use Western Digital NVMe. It's fast, reliable and sleep with the Ultra. Cost is about $600 but worth it to me. write speed for the WD 2 T about 900 meg/sec and read about 2400 meg/sec The one terabyte WD write would be about 1700 meg/sec

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rlynch3w

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Jan 16, 2023 06:40 PM in response to DonH49

I just bought a Mac Studio & the 2 bay NVME Sonnet Echo. For some reason the Studio isn't allowing for a RAID configuration for the Echo. I really need the read and write speed. Please if anyone can help or steer me to links I'd appreciate it.

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tbirdvet

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Mar 4, 2023 07:31 AM in response to Roccaforte

If your issue is not disconnecting after sleeping (known issue) then not sure why they would disconnect. I do not have that issue but I now only use SSD/NVME drives which I suppose could make a difference. Be sure you have good cables as the latest Apple OS is very finicky on robust connections. I went through several cables before I fixed my key pad from disconnecting.

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Mar 2, 2023 07:58 AM in response to rlynch3w

Don't ask help for a problem in a post created for a different problem. Instead create a new post.

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