OWC 2TB Envoy Pro Elektron USB-C Portable NVMe SSD

It gets the job done

This thing is tiny and feels like solid steel. Amazing! Stuck it to the back of my iMac, and set it up as a boot clone and backup without issues.

I started my External Drive shopping with the Samsung T7 and wasnt happy at all as the write speed was hovering right around 100MBs. This is MUCH better than that but still nowhere near the stated 1000+MBs I was hoping for. Still, Id recommend it.

This SSD is being used as an external storage device for my M1 Mac Mini setup. I’m not doing anything fancy with it, it will be used with Time Machine as well as a partition for other things. It’s an upgrade from my old external HD.

For years Ive relied on RAID drives for my main drive. Decided to go to SSD for my main files (backed up hourly, daily etc etc) and the change in speed of all things is fast fast fast.