This is the exact upgrade I made last week. The 2020 M1 16gb, was running perfectly fine, but for $599 the deal was too good to pass up for this M4. Was curious about the actual speed tests, thank you for posting this!
I believe the ssd speeds on the base m4 mini are slower relative to a 512gb and higher disk of the m1. If you up the m4 ssd to a 512gb version or higher, you'll likely see faster speeds from it than the m1, though maybe not by a lot.
According Tomsguide and the Verge, the the 512gd offers a small increase in speed(around 6 percent). However, the pro version increases the SSD performance by around 85 percent. The absurdly priced pro 4TB increases that to basically double of the base model, although that's a $1,200 upgrade to go up to 4TB from 512GB.
My external tb4 drive is 60% faster than the internal ssd in my m4 base model. My m1 MBP is even faster than that. I hope, that apple will work on that issue with a firmware update.
This is the exact upgrade I made last week. The 2020 M1 16gb, was running perfectly fine, but for $599 the deal was too good to pass up for this M4. Was curious about the actual speed tests, thank you for posting this!
Thanks so much for doing this! I’ve been hoping to see a video like this since the Mac Mini M4 was first announced.
Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching!
I believe the ssd speeds on the base m4 mini are slower relative to a 512gb and higher disk of the m1. If you up the m4 ssd to a 512gb version or higher, you'll likely see faster speeds from it than the m1, though maybe not by a lot.
According Tomsguide and the Verge, the the 512gd offers a small increase in speed(around 6 percent). However, the pro version increases the SSD performance by around 85 percent. The absurdly priced pro 4TB increases that to basically double of the base model, although that's a $1,200 upgrade to go up to 4TB from 512GB.
My external tb4 drive is 60% faster than the internal ssd in my m4 base model. My m1 MBP is even faster than that. I hope, that apple will work on that issue with a firmware update.