990 PRO

Your motherboard comes with a heatsink, unless you're gonna move a lot of files for a long duration it shouldn't be a problem, you can also go for the Samsung 990 pro 2TB like someone else said, I have them too. The difference is barely noticable. The case indeed comes with 4 fans according to Tweak

If you're sticking with the 256GB base storage on the M4 Mac Mini, external enclosures are a game-changer for cheap, fast expansion. Grab a couple of NVMe SSDs (like Samsung 990 Pro) and pop them into USB4/Thunderbolt enclosures (like Satechi Mac Mini M4 Stand & Hub) - you'll get read/write speeds c

honestly id go with the 1tb version and swap the ssd yourself. those 2tb crash reports are suspicious - might be a bad batch of ssds asus used. i've done this on my g14 and its pretty straightforward. grab a samsung 990 pro 2tb or wd black sn850x, clone your drive with macrium reflect free, then swa

Yes, def gen5 is overkill for TB4, but, in my specific case I’ve purchsed Samsung 9100pro 4tb for the very attractive price (cheaper than the same sized Samsung 990pro). And decided to reuse one of my TM D1 Plus (TB4 one) since my mac does not support TB5 anyway. In this my setup 990pro and 9100pro

Ah, when the Samsung 990Pro 2To was 219$. Good times.