In this video I'm showing you how to build your own external Thunderbolt 3 drive that uses an M.2 NVME SSD for the storage. The Thunderbolt 3 NVME SSD enclosure that I'm using is the WAVLINK Thunderbolt 3 to NVMe PCI-E M-key SSD and the M.2 NVME SSD I'm using is the Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB.

For this example I'm building this Thunderbolt SSD for my M1 Max MacBook Pro. However, you can use this Thunderbolt SSD with anything that is compatible, such as any Apple Mac computer with Thunderbolt 3 or Thunderbolt 4 interfacing or any Windows PC with the same.

While I was a bit disappointed with the write speeds using the Samsung SSD, the read speeds were very good. I have since used a WD Blue 1TB M.2 NVME SSD with this enclosure and it gives around 1800MB/s write and around 2200MB/s read. This WD is a fair bit cheaper than the Samsung and for basic storage may be the better option, I've included links to that as well below.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro and explanation
02:42 All the parts
07:23 Inside the enclosure
08:37 Fitting the SSD into the enclosure
13:41 Connecting the TB3 cable to the enclosure
15:28 Formatting the SSD in the Mac
18:23 Disk Speed test with BMD app
22:33 Real world write test
24:33 Real world read test
26:10 End credits

Amazon links:
WAVLINK Thunderbolt 3 SSD enclosure: [ Ссылка ]
Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB: [ Ссылка ]
Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB: [ Ссылка ]
WD Blue 1TB: [ Ссылка ]
Other TB3 SSD Enclosures: [ Ссылка ]
Other NVMe SSDs: [ Ссылка ]

Apple Computers:
M1 Max MacBook Pro USA [ Ссылка ]
M1 Pro MacBook Pro USA [ Ссылка ]
M1 Max MacBook Pro Amazon UK [ Ссылка ]
Mac Mini M1 (2020) [ Ссылка ]
MacBook Pro M1 (2020) [ Ссылка ]
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iMac M1 (2021) [ Ссылка ]

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