Review Mac mini M4 review: An amazingly tiny powerhouse

Very interesting that disk speed nearly doubled with the more expensive model. Could it be that the base spec, 256 GB M4 Mini uses one SSD chip, and that upgrading it to 512 GB of storage not only doubles storage size, but also storage speed?
This is definitely worth investigating!
 
Very interesting that disk speed nearly doubled with the more expensive model. Could it be that the base spec, 256 GB M4 Mini uses one SSD chip, and that upgrading it to 512 GB of storage not only doubles storage size, but also storage speed?
This is definitely worth investigating!
The teardowns show that the base M4 mini uses a different SSD module that's much smaller than the M4 Pro. Also, it's in a different location as they use different motherboards so you can't swap in a M4 pro SSD module into a base M4. However, someone's already soldered in larger NAND chips on the base M4 and upgraded it from 256 to 1TB!