Very decent Gen 4 NVMe SSD at a decent price in current market.
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overkill
Any other recommendations for a late 2014 Mac Mini?
For a Mac Mini that old you have two choices: Internal storage upgrade, or external additional storage. (Or both!)
For internal, those Mac Minis are openable and the drive upgradeable. Depending on your model. Do some googling.
For external storage, you're going to need to get a Thunderbolt 2 to USB-C cable (~$40), and an m.2 USB enclosure (~$40).
The Thunderbolt 2 will give you 20Gbps speeds, and you can get a 20Gbps m.2 enclosure. The m.2 disks can reach over 50Gbps, so that Thunderbolt 2 port on the 2014 Mac Mini will be your bottleneck. Any m.2 disk that will fit into the enclosure will do, and will be faster than the enclosure and Thunderbolt 2 port, so it doesn't matter what speed disk you get.
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2tb ssd for $184 isn't decent
If it has good performance then yes it is
If you're a normal user, then modern drives all have good performance.
power users don't deserve bargains
Agreed @Nom for many folks there may be a cheaper option suitable for their needs. This is the sort of ssd I want for my primary OS drive though.
Definitely a 'decent' deal for this tier of drive in the current market. Not an earth shattering bargain but those have been few and far between in 2025 and if you need a drive now, well time machines or waiting indefinitely just aren't an option.
Having said that if you have a better deal let me know as I haven't pulled the trigger yet!!
I bought the WD Blue SN5000 2TB for $154 from centre com a week ago for my M4 Pro Mac Mini, running amazing!
Highly recommend WD SSD’s!
No offence, but the fact you bought an SSD a week ago and it's still running fine, and isn't even the same product, probably isn't a top-shelp credible recommendation 😂 Not that you're wrong, but your recommendation is lacking some credibility
Didn’t realise I needed to run a 12-month stress test to earn your stamp of credibility. I bought the SN5000, installed it, and it’s been running perfectly, just sharing a real, hands-on experience with a WD SSD. But sure, let me know what the official timeframe is to qualify as “credible” in your book.
I’ll set a reminder to contact you then.
You didn't deserve the neg tbh.
The dude did say ‘no offence’…
username checks out. ;)
Obviously, there's a reason the WD Blue SN5000 is cheaper than the WD Black SN7100. it's a lower tier product with lower performance, IOPS, and endurance. That has nothing to do with credibility, though. But still a solid contender.
Would this be a good option for a laptop SSD? Need to upgrade my Lenovo laptop which runs Windows 11.
Great for laptops, single sided, high efficiency, low temps with very good performance.
Depending on your needs you might be just as well served with something cheaper, just do a bit of research if you see a deal as there are some poor drives out there too.
Perfect! Now I can upgrade my laptop's 1tb nvme to this. Time to fire up Clonezilla and start imaging!
Whats the current best setup for a desktop PC. Havent built a PC since the days of small nvme boot drive and a HDD for storage.
Are people just getting one large nvme and using it for everything? No need to separate.
Still kind of the same thing. I have a 2TB nvme for boot and a few games. Then I have a 4TB SSD for the rest of my games etc, then I have an 8TB HDD for all my umm.. "Linux Isos"
Entirely possible to run off nvme - just built a new PC with 2 x 2TB (one of them this WD 7100). You are still paying a premium for 4tb+ sizes though.
It’s actually one of the considerations with motherboard size now - mATX (and ITX) usually only have 2 nvme slots, full ATX typically have 3.
Also cases tend not to have much, if any, support for 3.5” drives, and Sata SSDs are often more expensive than nvme (and obviously slower).
Don't forget that your PCIe slots are also NVMe slots - if your mATX motherboard has 2 spare PCIe slots, then you can put 2 more drives into them with https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005924920287.html
True but a modern GPU basically takes up the entire bottom part of the motherboard, either physically on its own or by allowing for any semblance of airflow.
If just using iGPU then absolutely.
Yep I have done this due to having a mishmash of drives (naturally impulse purchases from OzB deals). You need to be careful and read your MB spec thoroughly as you may need to ration PCIE lanes, often with other stuff. NVME drives need 4 lanes for full utilization. The extra PCIe slots are often only 8X,4X or 2X and as you say, PCIe slots are NVME slots, that's because they are connected to the same lanes. Most motherboards will support PCIe bifurcation but not on all slots, meaning if you have two devices connected to the same set of lanes one may be disabled. For example, on my motherboard if you use the bottom PCIE slot for storage, it disables the SATA connectors.
Just bought a mini PC as a NAS. Would this been good or overkill?
Depends on your use case.
If you mean a typical NAS for data storage, HDDs are the way to go, or if you had to go SSD a cheaper one would be fine (subject to endurance).
If you’re looking to run a bunch of VMs or services then maybe this isn’t overkill.
How does this compare to the 980pros. I can pick 2 of those up for $165 ea not new, but from demo builds.
Hmmm my original laptop needs an ssd upgrade. And this might be the perfect partner to my new Lenovo Legion Go S!!
how's this one for macmini hub