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Old 05-21-2023, 09:09 AM
Zak7 Zak7 is offline
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Default Re: Please advise for New Mac Mini Rig and Pro Tools HDX (coming from a Mac Pro User)

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Originally Posted by BScout View Post
All approved Thunderbolt Chassis are made by Sonnet (including the Avid branded ones.) That should answer your question. (buy Avid or buy Sonnet -- still same people)

Do not put your NVMe Drive card in the same chassis as HDX cards. HDX cards have to run at PCIe 2.0 speeds which means a chassis hosting the HDX card is then running less than full speed. That will affect the performance of an NVMe drive card which can run at PCIe 3.0 speed.

SSD and projects, etc. are way in the past. You do not need to split them up. Put them where ever you want. On top of that, the Apple SSD controllers can run 2 times (NVMe) to 14 times (SSD over SATA 3) faster.
That is ridiculously faster than 7200 rpm drives when the old rule of splitting things up existed.
Buy the biggest internal drive you can afford -- it runs faster than anything else attachable.
Thank you this is very good info!
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