You can see the enclosure is basically the internal part and then the casing around it. So here's what each one looks like outside of the box. So whichever one you choose you want to make sure that they are compatible between these two. Now if I go over to this enclosure here I could see that this is NVME SSD drives. One is that it's NVMe M.2 and if we look here we can see it's the type of M.2 is actually 2280. So if we look at the drive itself we can see a few things about it. Now the important thing is to match the closure to the drive. Not the best one out there but a good price for one to play around with.

So you get one of these but there's no way to connect it to your Mac. It's not the fastest one out there but it was a good one for me to play around with.

There are so many different ones like it. But they are both chips on a little stick. First you need the SSD itself which looks like a little memory stick. You need two things to make one on your own. But you can build one yourself pretty cheaply.

But there aren't really that many and the ones that are out there are pretty expensive. So you would think that there would be a ton of them out there. Spinning hard drives are great for things like backups where speed isn't that important.īut you may think, well, isn't the perfect solution a SSD drive, Solid State Drive that's just like the drive that comes in modern Macs. So if you're editing photos or videos or things that are stored on these flash drives it's going to be tough going. Now these little flash drives are great for storage but they are not very fast and they don't really work well when you're using them a lot. Most of those are spinning hard drives or tiny little flash drives like these. So if you want an external drive for your Mac you may look and find that there are a lot of different choices. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 700 supporters. Today let me show you how to build a cheap, external SSD drive for your Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Building Your Own Cheap External SSD Drive For Your Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

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