OWC Express 4M2 (0 TB) Four-Slot M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure with SoftRAID XT, Up to 2800MB/s, Four M.2 NVMe SSD bays, Add up to 32TB of storage

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Other computer peripherals like wi-fi cards can come in the M.2 format and use the dedicated M.2 connector slot, but the most common use for M.2 is SSD data storage, so you can get NVMe drives in the M2 form factor. Could anyone recommend a fan that I could use to replace this one? As quiet as possible would be the best. I've used Be Quiets in the past but they don't appear to make fans that small.

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Michael covered his chosen solution for his Mac Pro 7,1 in his article Mac Pro 2019 & Trash Can Processing Power Available Compared - Mac Pro 7,1 & Mac Pro 6,1 Go Head To Head in which he listed the Sonnet M2 4x4 PCI card with four 2TB Samsung EVO 970 M2 cards for VIs. He configured this as an 8TB RAID-0 drive, which has given him speeds of around 6575 MB/s write and 7997 MB/s read. Using a Mac Pro, Michael didn’t need a PCIe enclosure, but it does show the kind of performance you can get from this technology.

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Built Smaller and Faster from Input by Pros Like You The OWC Express 4M2 is designed with superior ease-of-use in mind. We worked with award-winning creatives and listened to the kudos they heaped onto the OWC ThunderBay mini, and we put all that shared knowledge to good use when we set out to build the next-gen Thunderbolt 3 multi-bay drive. The result is 57% smaller and 2.5x faster OWC Express 4M2. Small in stature. Big on capability. The OWC Express 4M2 is ready to serve with four easy-to-access NVMe M.2 SSD slots customizable for any workflow with vibration damping feet that allow for vertical or horizontal orientation. Install up to 32TB of capacity and experience up to 2800MB/s of mind-bending performance via Thunderbolt 3. The Express 4M2 is an amazingly small digital workhorse with world-renowned OWC quality and award-winning support built in. You like to explore your own independent path, and digital storage is where you have fun, push hard and spark the imagination. You explore, you refine, and when ready, you share your vision with the world. The OWC Express 4M2 is the external drive built for the journey before you and the path yet to be explored. Additional features include an integrated DisplayPort connection allowing for full 4K monitor support. Compatibility includes certification for Mac and Windows platforms with SoftRAID support available for RAID 0 and 1. Both 2TB NVMe's are connected as RAID0. The more NVMe's you add the faster the speed should get as far as I know.

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We already have a broader article SSDs And Storage Drives For Your Studio - Everything You Need To Know. In that article, we cover all kinds of drives from HDDs (spinners) to SSDs (solid-state drives). However, as we explained in that article, there are SSDs and SSDs. The Express 4M2 enclosure only works with NVMe (PCIe 3.0) SSDs. SATA M.2 drives will not function if installed. If he were building a system now Dave would suggest the fanless version of the Sonnet M.2 4x4 PCIe Card (Silent) “especially as the Sonnet M.2 4x4 is now fanless, not that I’ve ever heard the fan in my older version that has a fan”. It works very well and I don't get any extreme temperatures. I guess the fan is more needed for constant write/read actions like video editing.

They accept a maximum of 4x NVMe drives, can run as RAID 0/1/4/5 & 10 or JBOD or Span. Maximum transfer speed is quoted as 2800MB/s, so not too bad in comparison to internal storage. Hynix Gold P31 and Samsung PM981a SSD’s are only compatible with Windows 10 when installed in this enclosure. Small in stature. Big on capability. The OWC Express 4M2 is ready to serve with four easy-to-access M.2 NVMe SSD slots customisable for any workflow with vibration damping feet that allow for vertical or horizontal orientation. Install up to 16TB of capacity and experience up to 2800MB/s of mind-bending performance via Thunderbolt 3. The Express 4M2 is an amazingly small digital workhorse with world-renowned OWC quality and award-winning support built in.