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If you add an external SSD for your Mac, format in APFS, it is designed for SSDs, the others aren’t. Forget about HFS+ or ExFat. Rule of thumb: If you’ve got an external traditional spinning HD, use HFS+; if you have an SSD, use APFS. It has to do with the entirely different technologies involved. HFS+ manages fragmentation, rewriting an entire file if even a small portion is changed to maintain a contiguous data block, whereas on an SSD, there is no read head, access is equally fast however much the data is fragmented, so it can just update the data that has changed and leave the rest, which is much faster. SSDs however require garbage collection, which HFS+ is not designed for as SSDs did not exist back then, so performance of an SSD formatted in HFS+ will degrade the more it is used. The opposite is true for HDs, always use HFS+ for optimal performance and automatic defragmentation. If you read and write a lot of small files, eg lots of image files, ExFat also isn’t as good on large volumes nor support journaling or any other advanced file system feature.

Just a tip, do NOT stick the thermal pad onto the ssd, stick it on the lid. Why? Because if your ssd fails and you need to do a warranty return, when you try to peel off the pad it takes all the serial number printing with it and the drive is left with no ID. I made this mistake with a Sabrent enclosure that came with a similar pad.

Just came across your channel this morning and I have to say.... as far as external disc storage goes... this is the most informative education I've yet to receive. Brilliant!! well done!!!

Great video! Excellent presentation on this upgrade.

Many thanks for this helpful video. I purchased everything you recommended: Samsung 280 1TB SSD and the Orico M.2 SSD enclosure. Easy assembly and it runs fast on my Mac Studio 2022 M1. I will use the drive for fast video editing using Premiere Pro. I'm very appreciative of your help and recommendations. Thanks, again!

Hello from Phoenix Arizona I’m coming back and watching your video. Again thank you so much for posting this. This is a much needed video at least for me. I’ve been trying to figure out the combination of SSD Drive and the appropriate enclosure to get the highest transfer speed possible at the lowest cost there is so many choices out there. It gets very confusing. I actually downloaded your video to my iPad and my iPhone and of course I saved it and gave it a like. Thanks again.

Well done. Liked the topic and examples.

Great program i am new to Mac and one of my biggest complaints was that the ssd was to small . But I always wanted to try and expand the hard drive. and you just answered my question thanks. I have subscribed to your channel and hope to learn more .

Very good video! first time viewer. Glad I found this channel.

Great and very informative video. Thanks. You have won a new subscriber! 😊

As someone who's profession is in the tech space and who uses these things on the daily, this was a really well done and informative video. 👍

Great video! Thank you

This helps a lot as I am planning to buy a mini mac. Thanks a lot to you! ❤️

This is a sweet solution for mac users. I've seen the Youtuber Dosdude1 who managed to replace the ssd nand in a Mac Mini from the 256gb model with 2tb. He replaced the two 128gb chips with two 1tb chips. His soldering skills are on a complete another level.

it's important to include sustained operation testing. Quick burst operations (as in Black Magic) are not always representative of all use cases.

Yes! Thank you very much Samsung!

I agree with going to an external SSD. Mine is the ACASIS TBU405 with the WD Black SN850X PCIe Gen 4 NVMe 4TB SSD.  My speed is 2572 MB/s Write & 2776 MB/s Read. I use it for all my media using Plex on my MacMini. The ACASIS TBU405 can accept up to an 8TB NVMe. I'm very happy with it. As a matter of fact, I have already order another ACASIS TBU405 case.

For the USB 10/20Gbps enclosures, make sure to lookup if your particular model needs firmware updates. It's common for them to have some bugs in the older firmware that can lead to possible data corruption, but are fixed in newer firmware (though most require a Windows PC to run the update program)

A superb & informative video. THank you.