Turn Your Mac Mini M1, M2 or M2 Pro into a Mini Mac Studio! Qwiizlab Dual Drive Enclosure
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- čas přidán 13. 03. 2023
- Are you looking to upgrade your Mac Mini M1, M2 or M2 Pro with a powerful dual drive enclosure? Look no further! Join me as I turn my Mac Mini M1, M2 or M2 Pro into a mini Mac studio! I'll be exploring the Qwiizlab Dual Drive Enclosure and showing you how to install it, configure it, and get the best performance from your device. Plus, I'll show you some of my favorite techniques for optimizing your setup for maximum performance and productivity. So come along and join me in this video as I turn my Mac Mini M1, M2 or M2 Pro into a mini Mac studio with the Qwiizlab Dual Drive Enclosure!
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ive been using this now for a week or so and I have to say that the performance that I'm getting from the drives inside are doing very well. I think in general they may run cooler which helps them keep their performance longer. Either way I've been using the M.2 drive mostly and its been great. plus the additional SD card reader is a huge benefit. I like.
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10:12 - I think you should be attaching those pads to the case, not your drive, so you can swap out the drive without losing those pads. And I'm guessing you have two because you can do one above and one underneath the drive.
The M1 mini and Base M2 mini only have 2 USB-C ports. Both used by this hub (UH25 Max which came out in mid-late 2022). I'm using the DP port on the hub to run my 4k 60Hz monitor - no problems (the monitor has a KMV switch so I can share keyboard and mouse with my PC). I run a SanDisk Extreme 2Tb from the hub-front USB-c port - it seems very fast when used as a workspace drive. You should test your external drive on the hub-port to see if it is faster than the studio port. I have a Crucial 1Tb SSD in the hub for TimeMachine backups. I'm not using the NVMe slot yet. Very happy with this hub so far.
I did see another review of this hub and the chap in question used an external power source for it saying it was more stable and ran better with a dedicated power source.
Dedicated power supply?
Thanks for the video. Very informative. I’ve been curious lately about the NVME drives as I have one on my pc notebook plus a 1 tab hd. Unfortunately, I only have the 256 NVME which is where the system & app files reside. I’ve tried to install some apps on the 1 TB HD but was unable to so backing up my 1 TB iPad wouldn’t work. 😕. I really want a mini…
These hubs self eject the ssd units by them selves. On my 3rd and 4th hubs and all 4 have done the same thing. Powered by external blocks
That's a pretty nice accessory for Mac systems.
I think so too. I’ve been using it for the past week or so with my studio and it’s been working great.
How is the heat given off by the SSD drives in the enclosure?
Thanks for posting this video. I will buy the item you show when I have the money for my Silicon M1 Mac Mini.
Next year I will upgrade to something better.
Your link to the sticker site doesn't work.
Where did you get the subscribers device ?
I'd like to get one for my channel.
A basic Mac Mini only has 2 usb-c ports along with 2 usb-a ports. You only need to connect 1 usb-c from this widget to the mac, you can connect the other one to a power supply instead of using a port on your Mac.
Indeed. I confirmed with Qwiizlab and am using a common 5V / 3A 20w or 30w USB charger as the power supply. Works well. Apple sells one, and Amazon sells many.
Bought a Qwiizlab hub after seeing these review videos, but I'm having issues with it unmounting the installed drives.
I'm worried about disk (and file) corruption if this keeps happening, and Qwiiz haven't been very helpful tbh. They did advise me to buy a power adaptor for the hub which I got, but still it's happening. Qwiiz ended up refunding me for the hub and not requesting it back, which would be a result if I wasn't living in fear of disk corruption due to the almost daily issue.
The comments I read on another video made me think about putting it on top of the Mac Mini rather than underneath it, in case it's an overheating issue, but any other ideas from anyone in a similar position?
I would call the drives in the Qwiizlab hub external drives as opposed to internal, just a different way of connecting them to the mac.
well if you go to buy them from any computer store you will be looking for internal drives. How they are connected is definitely via a USB enclosure. But if looking for them you would search for internal drives.
@@gregtoope I see your point. Thanks.
@@gregtoope yes but u incorrectly stated your internal memory was a total of 4TB and its not your internal memory is inside the mac not the usb extended by this hub and the fact that it uses 2 ports kinda is a bummer for me
plug the extream into a thunderbolt port , your hub by the way needs proper external power however the speeds you are seeing from the drives in the hub is what you get they are still treated as externeal drives by the computer because and internal drive means inthe computer and attached to the mother board for proper speeds , you can also achive really good speed if you get a gen4 thunderbolt case and gen4 drive as well just make sure its a powered case for the drive and that it can support the speeds in which your after how ever you will still not see top speeds of the drives in any external case period..
great video mate! just subscribed
appreciated. Thanks!!
Need this but with HDMI so I can go multi monitor on my mini M1
One USB is for power you can connect it to a power source to the wall and not use an USB C from the Mac
I just typed that 😂
Does it work on a Mac Studio?, I need the extra HD capacity.
Hello, I purchased this beast 2 days back. I have MBP MaxM1Silicon. Will CallDigit TS4 render from M1 Max to this Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 G95SC 2023 49inch " Or I need a usb c to Display port also 🤔. Pls. advise I am not able use the monitor in correct sense it is just standin my on desk.🙄
Weird the write speed faster than read. Is it the bus speed limiting? Do you have different capabilities on the usb C ports used?
Makes for a nice neat solution to storage issues. Will it work with PC?
i cant see why it wouldnt work on a PC. you just need a usbc port and I believe one port goes to the machine and the other can go to power. or you can run both into the machine so it draws power from the computer. And yes it is strange that it writes quicker. Weird.
use a thunder bolt case with your nvme on a mac and youll see amazing reults type c 3.2 is limined to 10mb/s where as a thunderbolt drive is 40 mb/s how ever the fastest you going to get on thunderbolt 3 drive is about 2700+ read and write and thunder bolt 4 should hit about 5000 mb/s all type c 3.2 drives are liminted to a max of about 900 but not all drives will even get that fast ..i just built 2 thunderbotl 4 enclosers with each a kingston kc3000 drive in each rated at 7000 mb/s and they both max out in the 2700+ range on my Mac mini m1 that has thunderbolt 3 thunderbolt 4 like i said will hit around 5000 in therory, nothing is faster tho then internal on the mother board
I wish there were 3rd party modules that would provide additional CPU/GPU/RAM the way you can do this with cloud services. Since Amazon now provision virtual Apple machine instances has anyone tried hosting a virtual mac ?
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Seamus' comment basically explains the speed thing. The dock is USB 3.2 (10 Gbps) for some ports and only 3.0 (5 Gbps) for others. Total bandwidth is 10 Gbps. That translates into a max of 1250 MB/s for the 3.2 and 625 MB/s for 3.0. Yes, for a lot of people this is plenty. NVMe drives may not be able to hit the theoretical max of 1250 MB/s even though they are rated higher. I don't completely understand, but a faster NVMe might get to 1250 MB/s, or not. There's something about the non-Thunderbolt connection that limits it. Along with the entire USB-C connection is a total of 10 Gbps (1250 MB/s) so there's that too.
The reality is this is probably fine for most people who aren't doing some kind of massive, complicated editing of videos, photos, intense 3D modeling, music with hundreds of tracks, etc. Those people need to invest in something like what Seamus uses which is a TB connection and you'll be able to get much closer to internal SSD speeds. Or just buy the largest internal drive they can afford.
Does this allow to run more than 3 monitors on the minis? 🙂
Doesn’t one plug into the wall?
This one can’t drive am external USB HDD, not even with a 20W USBC power charger. Is that normal? I can only plug in the USB A ports powered HDD’s.
yes that is normal. You need way more power than 20w. A standard USBC port can push out anywhere from 40w-240w. I have mine plugged into a 65w power brick and it works fine.
@@gregtoope Thanks! I just bought a 65W charger, I hope it’s enough. Thanks again.
@@gregtoope Still with a 65W power brick. Still won’t power an external drive or power the front USB ports.
@@gregtoope It won’t even charge a phone. I guess there’s something wrong with the unit. No power comes our do those USB ports. None at all.
On my Mac Studio I use Acasis usb 4.0 enclosure with WD sn770 2tb nvme installed write speed 2800 read 2750 this connected to tb4 ports on back of Mac Studio makes a fantastic work drive, also when connecting external ssd drives connect them to tb4 ports on back of Studio the read write speed will be better, front ports are only usb c 10gbps on base Mac Studio
ill definitely have to take a look
@@gregtoope if i edit weddings and i need to convert 4k to hd and after editing replace the proxy with raw 4k files nad export 4k should i buy mac mini or mac studio. I need smooth playback and want it to last 7 years max should i buy mac studio or mac mini m2
@@habibasayyed wait for Mac mini m3 or go for Mac pro m2
@@jmjphotography thank you for you response i feel i should wait for m3 check reviews of m3 and then decide. when m3 comes i hope the rates of m2 pro and mac studio will go down. right now i am struggling to find a computer on rent to doe xports in 4k
Exactly my setup. Works amazingly well.
I love the Mac hardware, sadly I cant stand the software. I try to use my Macbook Air but I find the OS annoying. As a result I end up always going back to Lenovo. Id like a Macstudio as my main desktop computer, but only if I could run Windows bare metal. 😞
I have the opposite problem. Windows drives me crazy but I love the hardware flexibility.
After watching a lot of this type of video, it seems that the drives and the enclosures are not created equal.
not really an issue with either. but USB. If this was running thunderbolt then it would screem.
What is the purpose of buy that extra ssd drive ? You already have the main one what’s that for ?
Because Apple internal ssd are WAY EXPENSIVE, so most of the time you buy a MacMini with the SSD size that you CAN PAY instead of what you really need... and they are not upgradable, so the only way to add more storage space is using external drives. Now, of course you can by an external USBC drive (like the Samsung T7 Shield) or using a NVMe SSD with a TB enclosure (that will give you the NVMe full speed), but this hub solves the extra storage problem in a more neater way AND it gives you additional, easily accesible, USB ports and card readers, all in a nice looking unit that blends perfectly with your Mac. Honestly, unless you need extra fast storage, this is a no-brainer for any MacMini user.
Is it noiseless? It's for my recording studio and my computer is in the same room where I record.
You got first read close to 900, second and next were much lower ... are you high because they send you this for free or what? What s more - it should not be connected with 2 usb to mac! 1 usb to mac one to power min 60W. You could burn usb on mac ...
smokem if you gottem
Not fast enough on those drives.
OneCrazyDJ, I was about the buy this set up until I read your comment. Could you say what would be better?
seeing that i edit almost all my videos from those drives, id say its plenty fast for most people. And sure you can get faster enclosures, but you'll be paying WAY more money.