I have an iMac from the middle of 2011 and do not want to open it up to retro-fit an SSD, however it came with Thunderbolt connectors so I figure that could use an external enclosure to boot from via Thunderbolt. All of the Thunderbolt enclosures are really expensive and limited at that, but the StarTech Dual Bay External Hard Drive Enclosure caught my eye as it allowed for two SSD/HDD and it would allow for daisy chaining (as well as including a Thunderbolt cable to boot).
Mac sin lipstick. Can anybody recumbent the enclosure? Yes, I am going to disable the noisy fan, I may even replace it, but don't think I'll need it if I use SSD anyway, so say reports.
I have a Mac Mini (Late 2014) which has two thunderbolt ports. I'm looking to purchase a M.2 NVME SSD enclosure that will allow me to enclose my Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVME SSD and connect to my thunderbolt 2 port. Pdf creator to mac.
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I was looking at the Crucial M550 as I don't want to go below 1TB (which is what I have internally now anyway) and know that the brand has a good reputation, it's been on the market for a while now. The thing is that although the enclosure plays well with SATA3 (6Gbps) I will not attain the true speeds of the SSD through Thunderbolt, but much more than the 75MBps I get now from my internal HDD that came with my iMac, around a four to five fold increase if reviews can be believed.
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There is also the SAM 850 Pro 1TB from Samsung, but this costs a fair bit more and am not sure I would get the benefit as it's being run through a Thunderbolt cable?
What is the most current mac os.
Any thoughts..
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), 16GB RAM, late 2011
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Posted on Feb 15, 2015 11:58 PM