ORICO Unveils MiniMate External SSD for Mac mini

[Nomad76]

ORICO, an industry-leading brand in data storage solutions, proudly announced MiniMate, an external SSD for Mac mini 2024. It is set to revolutionize the storage
experience for Mac mini users, especially for graphic designers, video editors, creators and influencers.

Easy-to-Get Storage Expansion Solution
MiniMate offers many nice capacity options ranging from 512 GB to 8 TB. This is an optimal choice for those who prefer Mac mini's base model at a premium price, and desire a flexible and scalable storage expansion for lots of inspiration. As creative professionals, content creators, and businesses continue to generate more data, MiniMate dramatically overcomes capacity limitations and enhances their productivity.



Unmatched Performance, Dream Team
ORICO MiniMate offers an outrageous speed of up to 40 Gbps.

Aligning seamlessly with Mac mini, it allows users to fly through intensive workloads. Photographs, video footage, music files and more in MiniMate can be imported and exchanged directly into your software. Let creators quickly start incredible creative projects - realistic graphics designing in Adobe Photoshop, smooth 3D rendering, video editing in Final Cut Pro, beat-making and music-mixing in Logic Pro, 3D modeling in Blender, or designing in Adobe Photoshop, etc.

With the perfectly sized design and Mac aesthetics, MiniMate snugly fits the Mac mini, creating a classic and harmonious look like an integrated elegance on
the Apple desktop. It not only offers a practical solution for expanding storage but also enhances the overall visual harmony of the workstation.

Key Features

• Perfect Match: High-performance, the same size as Mac mini and Apple-style aesthetics fully integrate into your fluid Apple workflow.
• Less-Investment but Large Capacity: Offer capacities options - 512 TB / 1 TB / 2 TB / 3 TB / 4 TB / 5 TB / 6 TB / 8 TB, enabling a lower investment for every 256 GB on your Mac.
• Max. 40 Gbps Blazing-Fast: As fast as Mac mini speed, video editing and media file imports are dramatically streamlined with an extreme boost of over 10x
  efficiency.
• Fast Airflow: Complete thermal architecture including air ducts and metal casing maximizes heat dissipation from inside out.

For more info, please visit the product page.



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[Chrispy_]

This is the obvious solution to the base-model's disgustingly tiny storage quota.

A "real" Mac Mini is $999 because Apple are baiting people with the paltry 256GB typical PC SSD capacity from 15 years ago in the $599 base model. TPU hasn't even reviewed a drive that small in over a decade and most tier-one storage vendors abandoned the capacity with the move to QLC at the low end.

 

[kondamin]

I'll wait for someone to release a "dock" that has a couple of m.2 slots

 

[kapone32]

This is the obvious solution to the base-model's disgustingly tiny storage quota.

A "real" Mac Mini is $999 because Apple are baiting people with the paltry 256GB typical PC SSD capacity from 15 years ago in the $599 base model. TPU hasn't even reviewed a drive that small in over a decade and most tier-one storage vendors abandoned the capacity with the move to QLC at the low end.

Yet people will blindly buy Apple thinking that some how their drive is better than the 2 TB you bought for under $100.

 

[bonehead123]

Fruity fanboi's gotta fanboi, but OTOH, they will hopefully buy these up like yesterday, instead of paying Cooky boi's absurd upgrade prices

 

[cfenton]

This is the obvious solution to the base-model's disgustingly tiny storage quota.

A "real" Mac Mini is $999 because Apple are baiting people with the paltry 256GB typical PC SSD capacity from 15 years ago in the $599 base model. TPU hasn't even reviewed a drive that small in over a decade and most tier-one storage vendors abandoned the capacity with the move to QLC at the low end.

It's a desktop. Just attach an external SSD and use that. I've been using the base M4 Mini since it came out and it's unbeatable for the price. I'm a photographer, so Lightroom and Photoshop are my most used applications and the M4 Mini is as good or better than the 9700x system my wife uses.

 

[R0H1T]

It's not unbeatable for the price; it's just that it's the best value in the Mac lineup!

 

[Chrispy_]

Yet people will blindly buy Apple thinking that some how their drive is better than the 2 TB you bought for under $100.

It IS better. It has additional features like a proprietary connector that nobody else uses, and an "Apple Genuine part" chip in it to ensure you don't accidentally insert a cheaper, faster, newer, better SSD and risk voiding your AppleCare warranty.

/s

Yet people will blindly buy Apple thinking that some how their drive is better than the 2 TB you bought for under $100.

Apple's SSD is probably slightly better than the bargain-basement 2TB QLC DRAMless PCIe Gen4 drive at $100, but flagship gen4 drives have been selling for $150 for a while now and we already know that the Mac Mini's storage isn't anything special.