The best price for Kingston KC3000 2TB SSD so far.
| KC3000 | |
|---|---|
| Part Number | SKC3000D/2048G |
| Form factor | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe |
| Capacities | 2TB |
| Controller | Phison E18 |
| NAND | 3D TLC |
| Sequential read/write | 7,000/7,000MB/s |
| Random 4K read/write | up to 1,000,000/1,000,000 IOPS |
| Total Bytes Written (TBW) | 1,600TBW |
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Step 1: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/761366
Step 2: https://www.amazon.com.au/SABRENT-Thunderbolt-Certified-Tool… (This is the only one on Amazon AU with reasonable price tag, not affiliated, you should try other platforms as there are products with better chipset and thermal design out there)
Note:
- It ain't cheap, but cheaper than Apple
- PCIe 4.0 SSD here can be future proof, but SSD is getting cheaper anyway
- The one linked here is a TB3 enclosure that uses last gen (Alpine ridge, JHL6xxx) chipset. It's cheaper but should still work fine. However there are better ones with Titan Ridge (JHL7xxx, Thunderbolt 3 controllers, usually considered with better compatibility for eGPUs) and Maple Ridge (JHL8xxx, which are the real Thunderbolt 4 controllers) chipsets, but they are expennnnnssssssive
- Apple Silicon, no matter which one, has a known bottleneck when it comes to write speed on external devices on either Thunderbolt or USB, so there's a potential that you won't get full speed of PCIe 3.0 x4 on TB3/4, but you should still get ~2GB/s write, which is about half of what you get on internal SSD (read should be fine)
If you're going external, take a look at a few videos to get an idea of a good setup longterm, not just fill up a 2TB and be done with it.
Video editing on a NAS
https://youtu.be/iLFSa-fdx_w
Thunderbolt to 10gbe
https://youtu.be/AiJV5kfnvgA
Check out tech notice on YouTube too, he just did a vid about external enclosures for mac
Not to ruin your post but I need advice. I've a Mac Studio (2022) and unfortunately just 500Gb of internal storage which is already full now. I'm exploring the best options to get an external storage with optimum performance considering that I do a lot of read/write of large files.
1. What options would you recommend?
2. Would this work with a specific enclosure?
3. Or a proper external ssd like T7 is better?
4. How to take benefit of the Thunderbolt 4 or at least get maximum possible speed?
Thanks