In the use of digital products, storage capacity is often a headache. Just like after the video blogger shared the overall experience of using Macbook Pro in the last issue, many people pointed out that the storage capacity of 522GB is slightly insufficient. The blogger mentioned at the time that in the future, a hard disk box plus a solid state drive would be used to solve this problem, focusing on high cost performance and plug-and-play. This video gives you a hands-on experience with this DIY storage solution.
Since all M4 pro chips support the Thunderbolt 5 protocol, in order to achieve the ultimate performance, the blogger chose the latest hard drive box launched by Mechelen that supports the Thunderbolt 5 protocol and is backward compatible with Thunderbolt 4 and Thunderbolt 3, as well as the Samsung 990 PRO solid-state drive. It is worth mentioning that the 2T capacity Samsung 990 PRO only costs 1,187 yuan through Taobao’s tens of billions of subsidies.
The solution is plug-and-play and does not require any drivers to be installed. Data transmission and power supply can be carried out through Thunderbolt 5. Click to agree for the first time and the system will recognize it. The blogger copied more than ten GB of material from this machine, and the naked eye can see that the transfer speed is very fast. After that, I used professional speed test software, but the blogger is not a professional hard drive speed tester. I hope everyone can vote on the public screen to evaluate the data performance. In addition, the blogger also demonstrated the effect of editing on an external hard drive. He created a new project using the popular Final Cut Pro software and placed the footage and proxies on an external hard drive. Material preview and editing operations are very smooth, which is very useful for bloggers’ editing workflow. It's completely sufficient, you don't need to delete or move materials frequently, and it's also very convenient to use.
This external storage solution costs more than 2,000 yuan in total. Compared with Apple's official website, which costs 4,500 yuan to increase the capacity to 2T, it is extremely cost-effective. Although there is M4 pro storage expansion service on Taobao, it requires sending the machine for disassembly. If you encounter an unscrupulous businessman secretly replacing parts, the gain will outweigh the loss, and the price of expanding the capacity to 2T is not much different from the DIY solution.
Overall, the blogger’s personal experience with this DIY storage solution is good. What do you think of this plan? Is it necessary to upgrade such an external storage solution? Feel free to share your views in the comment area.
The above is the entire content of this Macbook Pro Thunderbolt 5 storage solution review. I hope it can provide reference for friends who have the same storage problem. If you have any ideas, don’t forget to leave them in the comment area.
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