You can find Thunderbolt enclosures for less than $100US - check Newegg for the Orico or WavLink brands, Sabrent on Amazon, or this one at OWC. Whether you will notice either of the above in practice is debatable - USB-C provides enough bandwidth, even with the rather slow USB performance on Apple Silicon, to do just about anything you'd want to do with a sample drive. The external drive had a Carbon Copy Cloner created Data volume already on it and I installed macOS Big Sur 11.2.3 from the installer downloaded from the App Store and. connecting the OWC Envoy Pro FX directly to the M1 Mac Mini Thunderbolt port. There are a couple considerations when deciding between USB-C enclosures and Thunderbolt:ġ) Thunderbolt will provide better performance with just about any current NVMe drive, since even USB 3.2 Gen 2 won't give enough bandwidth for even a relatively slow driveĢ) USB-C drives perform a bit worse on Apple Silicon Macs than on Intel Macs, which will accentuate the performance difference vs Thunderbolt To create an external, bootable M1 Mac drive, you’ll need (in addition to an M1 Mac.
You should generally be able to get drives for <$100US/TB.
I've had good luck keeping an eye out for good prices on Crucial or Intel NVMe drives for external use - most recent drives are more than capable of hitting the Thunderbolt 3 & 4 data cap (~2.8GBps). The difference in NVMe prices is largely down to name brand - Samsung is a big name in the space, and commands a premium, as do some extreme performance lines from other brands (you shouldn't bother with those for external use, regardless).
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