Adding storage to a Mac Mini and maybe some other questions..

[Skynet5]

Can someone recommend a decent way to extend the storage of a Mac mini.

My other half wants to add 4TB of storage for her obsessively large music collection she wants to rip to lossless.

She has looked at a brand called OWC mini stack STX.

Looks like it would do the job but seems expensive and we’re unsure if this is the right plan.

We have a networked RAID, but as she processes the CD and wants to update and move around etc she really wants a scratch space to get it all right and before moving to the NAS. Which I’m sure will be batched.

Some sort of fast attached storage would be better in the workflow we believe as the NAS is currently accessed via WiFi, but even if we go with a cabled connection…which would be hard and involve power line due to location of NAS and where she does this work…

Thoughts?

We’re not 100% sure on all our requirements so depending on input I’ll ask her to give me replies.

Thanks in advance…

 

[Skynet5]

Thanks I think we’re thinking the same.

Any recommendations on a solid 4TB nvme?

She mentioned that some sort of powered hub would be good so she can connect more devices, cd drives etc for burning.

I think that is the other reason OWC came up as it has the built in ports, but I note they are thunderbolt and therefore quite pricy and unlikely really to be of benefit as we’re not connecting a load of devices that need mass data transfer rates. Also it seems to reduce the bandwidth of the connected drive too.

Just looks at thunderbolt crazy speeds right? 40/80 Gbps …