Other World Computing Express 4M2 16TB Build: Unpack, Assemble, Format, and Test with MacStudio

[@WardCo]

Oh, I forgot to mention in the closing that, off camera, I broke apart the array and re-created it with every possible chunk size from 16K-256K and tested each one. Read speeds were close enough to each other to not be a big factor, but write speeds noticeably dropped at 128K and 256K. In the end, 32K and 64K seemed to perform best. (I personally stayed at 32K.)

[@Johno530]

Nice review. I ended up sending mine back to B&H after I heard the fan noise... I know you can change it but even with the raid I wasn't getting any faster speed than a single NVME attached to a thunderbolt enclosure. I'm hoping owc comes out with a Thunderbolt 5 nvme enclosure that is silent.

[@joffrey6831]

23:55 Shouldn't you have changed the format to APFS ?

[@mackfisher4487]

Nicely done Ward, I like your desktop image is that in English countryside seen

[@Hudson937]

Did you end up modifying it? What’s the clearance under the fan, would a 2 or 4 mm heatsink fit?

[@bwalk1963]

I wish you would have put a link for this.

[@WardCo]

Added to description. Thanks.

[@christopher480]

dont worry .....its garbage with no rj45 port

[@WardCo]

Of course, you can always have the host it's attached to share the volume with SMB.

[@AstroPinoy]

So you put a crucial nvme rated for 4800MB/s when you can use the the much cheaper version since that enclosure is not capable of the max speed of your SSD M.2.

[@christopher480]

great review but since you cant use it as a nas its garbage given the price.

[@WardCo]

I've actually been shopping 4-slot Synology boxes since it's been about a decade since I've had a NAS in the house, I thought it might be time to revisit, but the fact that I/O to it is bound by network speeds ultimately negated the advantage of having a shared resource with redundancy -- for me, anyway.