External Drive for M4 Mini

From	RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com>
Newsgroups	uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject	External Drive for M4 Mini
Date	2025-01-20 13:33 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<vmljac$35llq$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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I've got a basic 256GB M4 Mini on order, and intend to get an external SSD to
meet the c.500GB of stuff I have - that's mainly apps, documents, and photos.
I'll be transferring data from my current iMac. I'll not be using Migration
Assistant this time - I've used it every time since about 2010 and I'd like to
start fresh.

Anyway, 2 questions:

Any recommendation for a suitable drive? I was hoping to spend not much more
than £100 on 500GB. But equally I'd like to preserve as much of the Mini's
speed potential as possible - so willing to spend a bit more, bearing in mind
I'm not chucking huge video files about but would like decent performance.

What to put on the drive? I was thinking just photos, other media, and
documents, and leave the OS and apps (c100GB) on the internal drive. From a
quick search, it seems some people put the whole lot on the external drive. I
don't think I need to be quite that hardcore but opinions welcome.

TIA

-- 
Cheers, Rob, Sheffield UK

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External Drive for M4 Mini RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2025-01-20 13:33 +0000
  Re: External Drive for M4 Mini Bruce <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2025-01-20 23:26 +0000
  Re: External Drive for M4 Mini Bernd Froehlich <befr@eaglesoft.de> - 2025-01-21 07:27 +0000
    Re: External Drive for M4 Mini Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-01-21 08:46 +0000
  Re: External Drive for M4 Mini Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-01-21 20:09 +0000
  Re: External Drive for M4 Mini RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2025-01-22 10:09 +0000
    Re: External Drive for M4 Mini Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2025-01-24 19:53 +0000
      Re: External Drive for M4 Mini RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2025-01-26 04:34 +0000
        Re: External Drive for M4 Mini RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2025-02-05 18:59 +0000

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