OWC Express 1M2 USB4 NVMe SSD – 1TB to 8TB – Mac & PC Compatible

Preliminary review

After being let down by an external mechanical hard drive & finding my existing external SSDs frustratingly slow, I decided a fast SSD was the way to go. The main job is 2Tb of RAW & Photoshop photo files, all managed by a Lightroom catalogue, located on the OWC, using an M1 iMAC. Installation of the OWC was simple and problem free. It works flawlessly with the MAC and is fast. Hard to judge, but probably as fast as the MAC internal drive. Some slight delay opening a large folder of images in Lightroom, but only a second or so to display the thumbnails. This is based on about 2 weeks daily use, so I cannot comment on reliability yet, hence not 5 stars yet. No complaints so far.

Does what it says on the box

Quick and easy to install an SSD card. Delivers 3+ GB/sec write speed and 2.4+ GB/sec read speed when attached to my Mac Studio M4 Max. Never gets more than moderately warm so the cooling design works well.

Great product for building a TB SSD for a Mac mini with the same read and write speeds of the internal memory Mac mini. Easy to insert the NVMe SSD card which takes only a few minutes. Save €600 cf Mac mini with 2TB.