I use TG Pro in my menu bar and I'll see the temperature. Second drive in this list is running in 1M2.
This is nice to know thanks. I just bought and installed TG Pro. I see the same SSD and SSD (NAND I/O). Assuming SSD is the internal and SSD (NAND I/O) is 1M2? What's curious is that I have two 1M2 connected but only see one apparently.I use TG Pro in my menu bar and I'll see the temperature. Second drive in this list is running in 1M2.
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The PCIe 4 drives run pretty warm and typically have a rated max temp of 85C+, so idling at 45 or so and running 50-60C in normal use is perfectly acceptable in my opinion. They do start to get uncomfortably close to the Tmax when continuously writing terabytes of data however.
I too would have preferred gen 3 for audio but agree that finding and buying them is tricky, especially with gen 5 already here. I chose Samsung 990 Pro because it is about as cool as gen 4 gets, plus i caught a flash sale for a good price. This should serve my needs for a few years; for my next studio Mac upgrade I may return to an evolved Mac Pro all-in-one form factor. I hope that Apple is learning from its customers who need seamless external expansion with their laptops, Minis and Studios.
Yeah, I was looking at the refurb M2 Mac Pros, but the $2k price difference ($3K if new) and the huge size of the thing put me off (I had a cheese grater Mac Pro years ago). And they have a similar issue in that there isn't enough PCIe lanes to run more than 6-8 NVMe blades on PCIe cards at full speed. There is no way to fill the 6 PCIe slots with high bandwidth cards. Same type of limitation with the Studio expect it's lanes, not power. They are awesome looking machines and great for eliminating desk clutter, but I'll pass in its current form.
Good point that. My Mac Studio is always cool to the touch, with cool air leaving the rear exhaust.
Speaking of which, one might want the drive enclosures to feel warmer than cooler, which implies more heat is leaving the enclosure.
True, I was really paying attention to drive temperature when I decided to put them in a box.
True, I was really paying attention to drive temperature when I decided to put them in a box.
If stacking them in a compact and stylish way then heat will spread from the hottest enclosure to the other drives.
If I keep them apart but still all in the box, I can even have the lid on and it does not affect the temperatures.
I just ordered an Oyen Digital Mobius 2-Bay enclosure and will connect either to a Studio Max front USB C port or to a Dell hub monitor. The OWC bare enclosure was on my short list but I prefer the Oyen form factor; 8.25D x 4.5W x 5.0H should fit nicely alongside the Mac Studio under the monitor riser. This will house two HDDs for local redundant storage, using JBOD and not RAID1. I hope that the front busses are fully independent and total power draw is not an issue. The Oyen like the OWC has a built-in PS.
Or that the enclosure is dissipating the heat without burning up, or that the drive isn't getting hot in the first place.
Same here pretty much. A few things need to be paid attention to however. For example, a thinner NMVe might not make good contact with the thermal pad when a DIY enclosure is sealed up. I've read reviews by some who needed to order thicker pads to fix their issues. But the right answer is having good backups for sure.
