charles1

I bought a Thunderbay 8 and put 8x 10Tb drives in it, for a usable RAID5 of ~70Tb. I could not get backups to work on a RAID5 with hard drives, it really needs APFS which requires SSDs. NAS does not work well either, even advanced disk formats like ZFS are unsuitable for MacOS backups.
I figured that to back up my Mac Studio M2U with 4Tb internal SSD, I could just clone the drive with a 1:1 backup since I don't run it close to full. I bought an OWC Express 1M2, and put in a low cost but fast 4Tb SSD. The 1M2 enclosure promises bandwidth up to 3151MB/sec and the SSD promises >6500, I got 3090, very close to the limit! Apparently it runs via USB4 and not Thunderbolt, I don't quite understand the tech but I like it! Right now I'm running backups hourly in Carbon Copy Cloner, the first backup (~3Tb) took about 2.5 hours but hourly incremental backups run in ~15 seconds. I am considering switching over to Time Machine, but 4Tb probably isn't big enough for that. 

bradmacpro said:

Well that rather sucks if I may be so blunt. The Mac Studio with M2 Max is looking to be slower than a M4 based MacBook at this point.

Incorrect. The internal memory bandwidth of a Mac Studio M2 is several times that of any MacBook M4. The SSD speed is astonishing, nothing like it could ever be achieved on a laptop. A fast CPU/GPU means nothing if you don't have a system board that can handle that level of performance.

I invested heavily in a Mac Studio M2 Ultra with 4TB of SSD, correctly predicting that it would be a long time before it was dethroned as Speed King. I was correct. 

That was a trip down memory lane, I remember selling those RasterOps cards and 21" color monitors. I forgot about the old 8100 series, I had an 8100/110 and it was supposed to be a hot rod video machine but it was a total lemon. Better to forget it. I have an old Apple 30" Cinema Display and I've been looking for one of those Dual-DVI adapters for ages. Better to forget it.

If Apple doesn't make it, Someone like Jeff Bezos will. 

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