#SSD STORAGE FOR MAC HOW TO#
#SSD STORAGE FOR MAC PRO#
#SSD STORAGE FOR MAC MAC#

Now let's talk about speeds here for a minute. You can just get a regular spinning hard drive for that because then you can go way up in size to 4 or 8 or even 12 terabyte drive to have a lot of storage space for back-ups. So it's kind of a waste of money to get an SSD. It's not something you're actually working with to edit files and things. Time Machine really doesn't require fast read and write speed. But I wouldn't use an SSD for Time Machine. Also if you're going to be using this for Time Machine.

#SSD STORAGE FOR MAC MAC#

If you've got a Mac that's before Mojave you're probably going to want to format it as HFS.

#SSD STORAGE FOR MAC PRO#

In most cases you're going to want to format it Apple Pro File System, APFS, for use as an external drive with any Mac using Mojave, Catalina, or beyond. Once I have this all assembled it is just a matter of connecting it to your Mac, bringing up Disk Utility and formatting the drive. So make sure you get the one that will fit with your Mac. A lot of these enclosures will only come with one or the other. It also comes with an older style USB connector so I can still plug it into my older MacBook Pro. One goes USBC to USBC which is perfect for plugging into all the latest Macs and MacBooks that have been around for years. Now this enclosure has a USBC shaped port at one end and it comes with two cables. Then I put the enclosure around it and I screw that in place. They get really hot and they fail to work really well if you're using them intensively. This is one of the problems that these flash drives have. But this will help take some of the heat off of it. In this little enclosure there is no cooling system. In your Mac there's ventilation, sometimes fans that cool down all the parts. It's just a special little stick-on insulator here and you just put it on top.Дrives get hot. It also comes with this thermal insulator. This one you insert in and then screw down the other end so it's firmly in place. Each enclosure is going to work a little differently so you have to follow the instructions carefully. Then all I need to do is to basically take the SSD drive, insert it in. You can see the enclosure is basically the internal part and then the casing around it. So here's what each one looks like outside of the box. So whichever one you choose you want to make sure that they are compatible between these two. Now if I go over to this enclosure here I could see that this is NVME SSD drives. One is that it's NVMe M.2 and if we look here we can see it's the type of M.2 is actually 2280. So if we look at the drive itself we can see a few things about it. Now the important thing is to match the closure to the drive. Not the best one out there but a good price for one to play around with. So you get one of these but there's no way to connect it to your Mac. It's not the fastest one out there but it was a good one for me to play around with. There are so many different ones like it.

But they are both chips on a little stick. First you need the SSD itself which looks like a little memory stick. You need two things to make one on your own.

But you can build one yourself pretty cheaply.

But there aren't really that many and the ones that are out there are pretty expensive. So you would think that there would be a ton of them out there. Spinning hard drives are great for things like backups where speed isn't that important.Д«ut you may think, well, isn't the perfect solution a SSD drive, Solid State Drive that's just like the drive that comes in modern Macs. So if you're editing photos or videos or things that are stored on these flash drives it's going to be tough going. Now these little flash drives are great for storage but they are not very fast and they don't really work well when you're using them a lot. Most of those are spinning hard drives or tiny little flash drives like these. So if you want an external drive for your Mac you may look and find that there are a lot of different choices. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 700 supporters.

#SSD STORAGE FOR MAC HOW TO#

Today let me show you how to build a cheap, external SSD drive for your Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with.

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