Pro Tools and SoundMiner are snappier on this drive. I am hopeful that this setup will work well as a primary work drive. Given how expensive it is compared to spinning hard drives and USB SSDs, it had better last a long time. This is one area where they are some dedicated solutions with products. In our research, we came across the following…

OWC Express 4M2 NVMe Thunderbolt 3 Review - TweakTown

NVMe drives consume a lot more power than conventional SSDs and so produce a lot of heat and so if you are planning to use NVMe drives you will need to consider how to keep them cool, whether that is passive using heatsinks or active cooling using fans. This is especially important if you are going down the DIY route to put together your own NVMe based storage solution. Game-Changing NVMe SSD Performance NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) is a hyper-efficient communications interface protocol built from the ground up to properly take advantage of SSD technology and high-performance connection buses like PCIe. The result is exponentially faster and efficient SSD storage, and the OWC Express 4M2 has room for four NVMe SSDs. As for the Express 4M2, it remains, as far as I know, the only such product on the market. It is unique in that it allows four drives to be merged together in a virtual disk. It manages to hit the right balance of performance AND storage. There are cheaper single drive devices available but of much lower capacity. The Samsung X5 comes to mind. On top of that it is small and can be daisy-chained (and hot-swapped) for even more flexibility. We would have preferred a longer cable, a longer warranty and multiplexed to fully benefit from faster NVMe SSD. The OWC Express 4M2 combo is not a balanced product but that comes as no surprise. Taken separately, the products however would earn a higher rating; the Aura P12 competes against the likes of the Samsung 1TB 970 EVO Plus which costs about the same. However, it competes against a host of other rivals (Adata, Silicon Power, Sabrent) that promises roughly the same level of performance at a lower price tag.OWC Express 4M2 is limited to ≈750 MB/s (less than 970 MB/s) per NVMe drive since each one is connected as PCIe 3.0 x1 Speed: at least 1000MB/sec so the session audio, Atmos audio and video could all come from one drive. Macfixit Australia is an Australian owned and operated business based in Melbourne, Victoria and we've been operating since 2005.

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And by portable enclosure I mean a PCIe slot chassis where you can install the right PCIe to M.2 adapter cards, esp. cards with PCIe switches on them to get efficient speed out of the drives. The Atom EV model runs at 1000MB/sec. and is compatible with USB 3.0. This looked like a perfect fit because it would run on both my existing Mac Pro 6,1 and my new Mac Studio. OWC claims that the P12 can hit read/write speeds of 3.4GBps and 3GBps respectively (and individually) which should be more than enough for each channel. While the maximum theoretical speed of Thunderbolt 3 is 5GBps but in reality, this number is never reached due to overhead. With the release of the new MacBook Pro and Mac Studio, more and more people are looking for even higher speed storage options. In this article, we explore how this has come about, what technology is now available and suggest some options for solutions for your new studio computer.DisplayPort Display connection flexibility is yours with a convenient DisplayPort located right on the rear of the OWC Express 4M2. There's no need to worry about adapters or extra-long cables. Just plug your display directly into the Express 4M2 and you're all set. OWC Thunderbolt 3 Cable OWC Express 4M2 comes with an OWC Thunderbolt 3 cable which is Thunderbolt certified for Mac and Windows, with an additional 0.5 meter to 2.0 meter lengths available separately. Commenting on our article New Mac Studio Announced - The Machine Studios Have Been Waiting For Forest said… Each computer has a Sonnet Echo III chassis attached and together they are configured side by side in the DuoModo housing. Size: at least 6TB single volume size (without resorting to exotic software RAID solutions that group smaller volumes together).