How To Pick The Best Thunderbolt 4 Storage SSD Enclosure For M4 Macs - How Do You Decide and Test?

In this video we discuss how to pick the best Thunderbolt 4 SSD enclosure for your M4 Mac like the brand new M4 Mac minis. We discuss the correct tests to determine if your Thunderbolt 4 enclosure and M.2 SSD is performing well on your Mac and if you are getting the best performance that you can. Is 3,000 MB/s fast enough and will Thunderbolt 5 even make a difference. So if you bought something like a new M4 Mac mini, M4 MacBook or M4 iMac and want the fastest Thunderbolt 4 storage, watch this video to see how you should test this and how to build the best external storage for your Mac.

Chapters in Video:

0:00 - Intro - Pick Best Thunderbolt 4 Enclosure
0:33 - Topics Covered in Video
1:41 - Picking Correct SSD and Speed
2:15 - First Thunderbolt 4 Test Overview
2:50 - Test 1 - Acasis Enclosure and WD SN770 SSD
3:53 - Test 2 - Acasis Enclosure and Orico SSD
4:52 - Test 3 - Acasis Enclosure and Leven SSD
6:36 - Speeds To Shoot For with External Storage
7:36 - Containing Heat on External Enclosures
11:25 - Things Are Not What They Seem
12:48 - Best Way To Test External SSDs on Mac
18:39 - What Did We Learn Here
19:53 - Conclusion To Video

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