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This is what Youtuber MKB (Marques Brownlee) has installed in his new Apple Silicon Mac Pro. He doesn't show which NVMe SSDs he has installed but probably bought them from OWC. I looked up what it would cost to use eight 4TB SN850X drives. It does save a lot of money over what you'd pay OWC for their drives of the same capacity. If your hackintosh has PCIe Gen 4 slots you could take advantage of these options to speed up your professional workflow. The target audience is mainly Pro Video editors. If you are simply an average Mac/Hack user, you'd never spend this much just for faster storage.
www.macsales.com
26,000 MB/s speeds when used in a PCIe Gen 4 slot.
OWC's bundle of Expansion Card and 8 4TB drives will cost you just under $5,000 USD. Before sales tax is calculated.
If I bought 8 Gen 4 WD Black NVMe drives from Amazon myself, and the OWC 8M2, the total would be $3,460.31 which includes my local state sales tax. A significant savings ($1500+) over buying NVMe drives from OWC to install into their 8M2 PCIe 4.0 expansion card.
This would be my total cost for 8 4TB WD SN850X drives. Currently, I need nowhere near this much ultra high speed storage. This is just a mental exercise to see how much you'd save buying your own fast as possible NVMe drives. Many other brands would work too. Some 4TB drives cost much less than these WD drives. They also offer much slower read/write speeds. Most all lower cost NVMe drives have no DRAM on the drive's PCB.
The TEAM MP33 Pro 4TB drives sell for $169 on Amazon. They are Gen 3 drives, not Gen 4.
8 of these drives would cost over $1,100 less than the WD Black drives. They do have a 5 year warranty.
www.macsales.com
26,000 MB/s speeds when used in a PCIe Gen 4 slot.
OWC's bundle of Expansion Card and 8 4TB drives will cost you just under $5,000 USD. Before sales tax is calculated.
If I bought 8 Gen 4 WD Black NVMe drives from Amazon myself, and the OWC 8M2, the total would be $3,460.31 which includes my local state sales tax. A significant savings ($1500+) over buying NVMe drives from OWC to install into their 8M2 PCIe 4.0 expansion card.
This would be my total cost for 8 4TB WD SN850X drives. Currently, I need nowhere near this much ultra high speed storage. This is just a mental exercise to see how much you'd save buying your own fast as possible NVMe drives. Many other brands would work too. Some 4TB drives cost much less than these WD drives. They also offer much slower read/write speeds. Most all lower cost NVMe drives have no DRAM on the drive's PCB.
The TEAM MP33 Pro 4TB drives sell for $169 on Amazon. They are Gen 3 drives, not Gen 4.
8 of these drives would cost over $1,100 less than the WD Black drives. They do have a 5 year warranty.
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