With a surprisingly affordable Thunderbolt 3 SSD drive enclosure finally on the market, you can build your own customized version of the cheapest DIY Thunderbolt SSD backup drive possible. Needing only a tiny screwdriver, a few minutes to install the SSD blade are all that's needed. A quick format with Apple's Disk Utility and you're

Pair the low-cost Thunderbolt 3 enclosure with what are becoming very cheap M.2 NVMe PCIe 2280 SSD modules. Extremely high performance Time Machine backups and data transfers to and from your Macintosh are possible.

Cheap Thunderbolt 3 NVMe SSD Enclosure

Heat Dissipating Aluminum Case w/Integrated Cable

For barely over $100 total you could have a modest but rip-snortin' 256GB Thunderbolt 3 Mac backup drive. Just pair OWC's Envoy Thunderbolt 3 solid-state drive enclosure with any M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe SSD blade that your heart or your wallet desires.

Cheap 512GB Silicon Power NVMe SSD

Reads to 2,200MB/s and Writes to 1,600MBps

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