Looking for an enclosure that matches the Studio form factor

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Currently I have an older revision of Satechi that works fine but only supports M.2 SATA SSD drives, and will get moved to my M2 Mac Mini, so I need something for my Mac Studio. I’m looking at the following options:

  • Satechi Stand for Mac Mini with NVMe SSD enclosure : This is basically the updated version of what I have, supporting a NVMe SSD drive.

  • OWC Ministack STX : This well known brand sells this device that seems to support a regular SATA drive through USB and a NVMe SSD drive through TB. Seems a good expansion option, but it has no audio interface, which is convenient, and more importantly has a fan which makes me wary of adding noise to my currently silent Mac Studio.

  • Raycue 10-in-1 80Gbps Dock : This is yet to be released, and I don’t have many references about this vendor. It is not advertising TB support so not sure about the promised speed.

Any other options out there that I’m missing?

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OWC is well-known for quality, but geez, I hate their branding!

I have that Satech unit on my Mac mini and it works great. I’ve never had a problem with it. I don’t do any intensive video editing or production, but I added an SSD and it plenty fast for my use.

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Yes, the Satechi one is great, I can confirm that as well. But for my next one I would prefer to have another drive slot and potentially TB, hence the options I’m exploring. But if I don’t find anything else I will go for the Satechi.