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HiVolt

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M4 Mini 512gb - post your results for your configuration.

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alchemistics

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Screenshot 1: Base Mac Mini

Screenshot 2: External USB4 NVME (Satechi Pro, WD 850x), APFS encrypted
 

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Gabebear

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It’s different between the M4 and M4-Pro machines.

All the size drives have the same number of chips. That is what caused different size drives to have lower speeds in the past.

The M4-Pro gets the ~6000 MB/sec read/write and the regular M4 gets ~3000 MB/sec read/write.
 
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