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Re:Apple finally announces an overhauled Mac mini by devonkim on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @04:09PM (#18340843)
External drives would be based upon Thunderbolt 3 using USB-C compatible physical connections, and those are basically PCI-e 3.0 x4 lanes with a little external sync overhead. Samsung’s T5 drive would go along very well with these new minis. Obviously a drive hanging off a machine is less attractive / practical for business purposes but this is the usual Apple price / market segmentation model at work. Going back to user replaceable RAM is a bit of a shock to me considering other changes that are user-hostile (the T2 chip comes to mind).
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Re:Apple finally announces an overhauled Mac mini by singularity2001 on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @04:27PM (#18340983)
Thanks

Any guess how much faster Apples SSDs would be than a T5 like this: ?

https://www.amazon.de/Samsung-MU-PA1T0B-EU-Portable-Kabel/dp...

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Re:Apple finally announces an overhauled Mac mini by thirdsun on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @04:02AM (#18343999)
I‘d expect an NVMe SSD to be about 5 times as fast as a traditional SSD like the T5, at least in theory. However as an owner of the T5 I can assure you it’s still very performant and ideal for large media storage. If peak performance is a real concern, you still have another option I just discovered: Samsung X5 - an external NVMe SSD: https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/p...

This should be very close to internal PCI-based SSD performance and benchmarks seem to confirm this: https://9to5mac.com/2018/09/05/review-samsung-x5-thunderbolt...

So there‘s a storage upgrade path if you’re fine with external hardware. I‘m considering this solution myself.

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Re:Apple finally announces an overhauled Mac mini by singularity2001 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @04:28AM (#18344060)
Fantastic!
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Re:Apple finally announces an overhauled Mac mini by devonkim on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @08:46AM (#18345180)
The new Apple SSDs in the Mac Mini 2018 are unknown so far but bets on being the latest Samsung and Toshiba NVMe SSDs for consumer class wear levels.

There’s a lot of small gotchas and caveats with Thunderbolt 3 and SSDs now but they are getting better slowly https://www.macworld.com/article/3276325/storage/nvme-over-t...

And let’s not forget that this is a 1st run product of a new generation and the Mac Mini 2019 may be significantly better in this area (or worse...)

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