External storage options have improved significantly with the advent of portable SSD enclosures, offering fast and reliable data transfer and storage. As an alternative to the painful upload speeds of cloud storage and sulking SSD enclosures available, the new Satechi USB4 Slim NVMe SSD lands as a high-speed and more flexible way to manage your data.
This versatile option is designed with the Mac Mini M4 in mind and targets creators, gamers, and professionals chiefly, who might relish and leverage the USB4 SSD enclosure’s transfer speeds of up to 40 Gbps. Even though it’s primarily focused on looking apt besides the Mac Mini, Satechi has kept its universality intact, ensuring it is compatible with other USB and Thunderbolt devices. So, even if you’re outside of the Apple ecosystem, and if your device(s) support external storage drives, you can relish its fastest-available transfer speeds.
Designer: Satechi
A portable SSD enclosure can let you back up files, move them between setups, and do that at really high speeds, something that Satechi’s new device is built to do with unperturbed efficacy. The USB4 Slim NVMe SSD Enclosure, designed in aluminum with a black and silver finish, is really similar in appearance to the Mac Mini M4, but way thinner, which means you can position it alongside or even atop or use it as a stand for your Mini.
The interestingly positioned device by Satechi ensures a clutter-free setup with a cable compartment built into its structure that allows braided cable to be stored out of sight. The minimalist design – familiar to Satechi’s previously launched Mac Mini M4 Stand & Hub – of the USB4 Slim NVMe SSD Enclosure does not compromise functionality. It supports a range of SSD sizes — 2230, 2242, 2260, and 2280 —and has up to 8TB of storage capacity. It means the enclosure can be used to expand the storage of your Mac Mini M4 between 1TB to 8TB.
And when you want to move the heavy files from the Mac to a different device or vice versa, The USB 4 compatible Satechi SSD Enclosure will let you do so at much faster transfer speeds of up to 40 Gbps, which as the company notes, is “eight times faster than standard USB 3.0 technology.” If put into perspective, this is like transferring almost ten 4K movies in under 40 seconds, or roughly 4,000 high-res images in just 30 seconds. To ensure all the stored data and transfers are smooth, the enclosure comes with a thermal pad and cooling vents to ‘maintain peak performance without thermal throttling.’ If you’re interested, Satechi USB4 Slim NVMe SSD Enclosure is now available on the company website for $119.99 (SSD sold separately). It is also available on Amazon.
