{"id":38961,"date":"2024-12-09T11:45:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T18:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=38961"},"modified":"2024-12-09T11:45:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T18:45:58","slug":"mac-mini-m4-part-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2024\/12\/09\/mac-mini-m4-part-v\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Mini M4 &#8211; Part V"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>Matching storage.<\/I><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2024\/12\/05\/mac-mini-m4-part-iv\/ target=_blank>Part IV<\/a> I wrote about the French company named Polysoft which is providing upgraded storage for the Mac Studio computer, adding that I expect they will expand their offerings to include the Mac mini M4.<\/p>\n<p>That may take a while as they will have to reverse engineer around Apple&#8217;s greed, but meanwhile another entrepreneurial outfit has produced an external SSD in a box with the same footprint as the Mini. <a href=https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/computing\/macs\/need-extra-storage-for-your-new-m4-mac-mini-but-dont-want-to-pay-apples-steep-upgrade-prices-this-unique-external-ssd-might-be-the-game-changer-youre-looking-for target=_blank>TechRadar<\/a> has the story and storage capacities from 512gb to a whopping 8tb will cost from $140 to $1000.  That is extremely competitive when you look at Apple&#8217;s upgrade pricing &#8211; Greedy Timmy wants an additional $800 for just 2tb.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Mac Mini M4 storage.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<I>The Orico external SSD for the Mac mini M4.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Orico claims a throughput of 40Gbps which seems unlikely to me, but we should soon be seeing test data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matching storage. In Part IV I wrote about the French company named Polysoft which is providing upgraded storage for the Mac Studio computer, adding that I expect they will expand their offerings to include the Mac mini M4. That may take a while as they will have to reverse engineer around Apple&#8217;s greed, but meanwhile &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2024\/12\/09\/mac-mini-m4-part-v\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mac Mini M4 &#8211; Part V<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-mini-m4","category-macintosh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38961"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38965,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38961\/revisions\/38965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}