The reverse engineering efforts going into making 3rd party SSDs for Apple are pretty impressive, e.g.
iBoff RCC's 2TB SSD for the M4 Mac Mini:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3CYj37bxDE
(That video was posted 3 days ago and they've already sold out of their first $170 [as contrasted with the $800 Apple charges for 2TB of slower NANDs] run of upgrades but are hoping to get sufficient pre orders for the next run to go from a 6 layer PCB to an 8 layer PCB while keeping costs roughly the same. Apparently an 8TB SSD upgrade is in the works too.)
They've even gone so far as to produce a PCB mod for Apple Silicon laptops to re-introduce removable storage, which is something Apple should just be doing from the factory, because invariably others can and will make faster and more affordable storage than Apple offers.
smdh Tim Cook's Apple may be amazing financially, but their engineering is another matter entirely.
iBoff RCC's 2TB SSD for the M4 Mac Mini:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3CYj37bxDE
(That video was posted 3 days ago and they've already sold out of their first $170 [as contrasted with the $800 Apple charges for 2TB of slower NANDs] run of upgrades but are hoping to get sufficient pre orders for the next run to go from a 6 layer PCB to an 8 layer PCB while keeping costs roughly the same. Apparently an 8TB SSD upgrade is in the works too.)
They've even gone so far as to produce a PCB mod for Apple Silicon laptops to re-introduce removable storage, which is something Apple should just be doing from the factory, because invariably others can and will make faster and more affordable storage than Apple offers.
smdh Tim Cook's Apple may be amazing financially, but their engineering is another matter entirely.
