Storage Hub For Your M1 and M2 Mac Mini

here's another good Mac Mini hub for certain people let's talk about it [Music] welcome back to the channel so today what I'm going to do is I just want to set the video up because this is important I get a ton of comments on this what I have is I have a satachi hub right here for your for your Mac Mini right works with the M1 Mac Mini the M2 Mac Mini I'm going to show you how this works now before I get into the video though I want to kind of stop all the comments in advance I always get comments like oh that's not Thunderbolt that's way too slow it's too slow of storage um you know it's not using why would I give up a thunderbolt port for that and all this other stuff right I want to just say if it's not for you don't watch the video but for the people that want a hub just like this that actually has internal storage that you can add to it which is going to give you incredibly cheap storage I'm going to show you some examples this might be a good option for you so definitely stay tuned if you want to watch that again this may not be for everybody but it's going to be for a lot of people that just want that cheap storage and they also want some ports on the front of it on the front of their Mac Mini so stay tuned without further Ado we'll get into it all right and then just let me just set up the video so in this video I'm going to show you the ports of this up close and show you what it includes how it connects to the Mac Mini I'm also going to show you the storage on the back how you actually install that storage what kind of drives it takes how fast that storage is I'm going to do a speed test on that as well and then basically what else do I have I'm going to show you some good options for ssds to put into there and just show you how fast like a file will transfer just to kind of show you like do you really need super fast storage or is this fast enough so we're going to go through all that in this video so sit back relax if you're looking for a hub for your Mac Mini you might consider this one I'll have links to all this including all the drives and everything in the video description all right let's just start off by saying first of all this thing actually it's it's very similar now just full disclosure this is an older this is an older Mac Mini here this one doesn't actually work with this my M2 is downstairs I don't feel like reconfiguring it kind of lazy and I actually do this as a hobby so but this works the same basically just to show you the example here so basically an M2 or M1 Mac Mini would see right into this thing just like this it's actually kind of carved out and there's a little kind of a I guess it's little fans and stuff in there but basically the bottom of your Mac Mini seeds right into this Hub and the color is very close to my new one and this one this is more of a weathered one here so it's going to be a little bit off but on my other one downstairs it's very close so and I did all my testing on my M2 Mac Mini just to let you know full disclosure on the back of it there's a USBC cable and I'll show you some close-ups of that as I talk but that basically flips right into your Mac Mini and that takes up basically on your M2 it'll go into one of the Thunderbolt ports right so what are you getting from that so obviously let me just set up a couple things here if if you actually let me just take that off really quickly I'll show you a close-ups as I'm talking to so first of all well this is aluminum on the outside plastic on the top and bottom and let me just go through the ports here it's got a Micro SD reader and just an SD card reader right here it's got a audio jack I think it's a three and a half millimeter audio jack it's got three let me just see here USB a data ports one USBC data port on the front there now these are all only going to be five gigabits per second so again they're not Thunderbolt speed and not even 10 gigabits per second but they're five gigabits per second on the front so keep that in mind as well on the bottom I'll show you close-ups though on the very bottom of it you can open up this little compartment and I actually have a drive-in that I'll show you in a second what that is but basically you can put in a SATA drive now that's a SATA m.2 drive a lot of people again are going to say well that's not nvme it isn't it's only SATA you got to make sure m.2 SATA m.2 nvme will not work in this but the side I will you're going to get fast enough speeds I'm going to prove that to you in a second so that's what you're getting here and a lot of people complain like why would I give up a thunder pull port for this and you know here's this connection I got to plug into my Mac Mini let me just tell you something if you needed a SD card reader for example you'd have to plug in a hub anyway right and that's just one port so you can always take this out plug it in take it out plug it in as you need this it's going to give you those ports on the front and the SD card readers which is key right there and the storage so again you can take this out anytime you want and use that Thunderbolt port with another Hub or however you want to use it because you only got two of them but if you want to use it let's say you're going to be doing some work where you need the SD card reader or you want that extra storage just plug it back in it's that easy right you don't have to it's not life it's not gluing it into the into the Mac Mini you're just plugging it in so for most people it's going to be fine all right so the the main reason you pick this up again is because it's got super incredibly cheap storage let me let me just show you an example I bought this it's a silicon power I'll have a link to this I'll show you on my Amazon page here it was 25 for 500 gigabytes 25 for 500 gigabytes all right then you got to buy this right here so and this is going to be about I forgot to say the cost of it by satachi but this is going to be about 80 bucks all right let's do a speed test now just to show you so the drive I put in here again is a silicon power one and I'm going to show you after this exactly what that was and how to get really cheap storage Way Beyond this so let's go ahead and take a look at my screen though we're going to run the speed test on this and you're going to notice pretty quickly that right away you're not getting the fastest it's going to be about I was getting around 340 on the rights 340 megabytes per second and about 335 megabytes per second on the reads right there so again that's not going to be the fastest right but how fast does that mean so how fast do you need let me tell you a quick story I have a 2017 iMac over there that boots off of a Samsung qvl uh normal SS two and a half inch Drive I think I get like 400 megabytes per second I've done 500 4K video editing on there 500 videos 4K editing I also transfer files I can't even notice a hitch or anything like that so this is not the fastest of course but it's fast enough for most people let me just prove that to you over here you're going to see me moving it's going to be a one gigabyte file take a look at my screen and you can see how fast this is I mean moving that one gig file it takes literally what is it one or two seconds to go ahead and complete the the you know a gigabyte file over to that drive so this is what I'm talking about everyday use of just storing files for people storing your photos not so much you don't have to be an expert Video Editor to use this if you are then you want to definitely spend some money on faster storage but for most people you can even put apps on this I've done that you can do anything you want this is going to be fast enough for most people all right so the drive that I put in this thing right off the bat it's going to be basically it's a silicon power 512 gigabyte like I told you it was only 25 or 26 bucks this thing right here is only about 80.79.99 right now so for 106 bucks you can add 500 gigs of just cheap storage fast enough to your Mac Mini right well you can get 500 gigs on directly through Apple for about 200 so that's not a huge about a hundred dollar difference still substantial but not maybe the biggest but let's keep moving so let's just assume that you put a one terabyte side of drive into this thing right here one terabyte here's one by eleven these are fairly cheap they're very you know I've used them all the time I've never had an issue with them I'll put links to all this in the description but here's the JM 600 again it's a one terabyte drive 43.99 so if you do the math on that basically it's going to cost you 124 bucks for one terabyte 124 bucks that's this the drive plus the the same or the switch down here the Hub and then basically for Apple they would charge 400 for that same storage right if we keep moving down this is where it gets even huge here's one for 89 bucks from Levin again it's a SATA m.2 that's about 90 bucks this is again about 80 bucks that's a hundred and seventy dollars Apple would charge you 800. so 170 versus is eight hundred dollars you can buy a brand you can buy a brand new M2 another system for your wife or for your family or whatever for Less cost than actually just upgrading the storage or the difference in that storage right there so if you don't need that speed why get it right you can use something like this do most of your file transfers and stuff that you don't need super high speed on and this thing just works incredibly all right so let's wrap this video up I just want to make sure everyone understands who this is for yes it's a little bit older technology because obviously it has um you know only five gigabit per second ports on the front what have you but who is this for it's somebody that has either an M1 or M2 Mac Mini with this kind of USBC connection on the back you need that it will not work with the really old systems just like the example I have there but it won't work with the old ones so it gives you though if you need the card readers it has that on the front and then it gives you additional ports right but it also gives you that storage so if you need fairly just just normal speed storage nothing crazy but a ton of it for like you said 170 bucks for two additional terabytes versus 800 this is for you everything's work fine for me this is not a total review because I haven't had it long enough um one last thing too is I did try like plugging in additional storage to the front of this and just to kind of make sure this works and it does I use like a little USB drive here so that worked perfectly on the ports it does say though just one disclaimer at the very end these are not for charging up here but it does work with addition no hard drives I've tried keyboards stuff like that it worked just fine for but you don't want to use these ports for charging I just wanted to throw that in at the very end because that's what the system says and when I read it online I haven't really tried to you know charge anything with it but just just keep that in mind when you're buying it anyways we'll talk to you soon I hope you guys love these videos and subscribe if you can it helps me a ton trust me I'm trying to grow the channel and uh yeah you can see I like to do a little bit smaller products not what all the big guys do we'll see in a little bit peace

Channel: Craig Neidel

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Length: 9min 5sec (545 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 23 2023