{"id":35612,"date":"2022-04-18T16:26:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T20:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35612"},"modified":"2022-08-09T11:08:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:08:47","slug":"owc-ministack-stx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/18\/owc-ministack-stx\/","title":{"rendered":"OWC miniStack STX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/owc-ministack-stx\">Other World Computing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/owc-ministack-stx\">\n<p>The miniStack STX now features Storage and Thunderbolt Xpansion, continuing its award-winning legacy as the best sidekick a Mac mini can have. Meet the world&rsquo;s first Thunderbolt certified Thunderbolt 4 storage solution.<\/p>\n<p>With a universal SATA HDD\/SSD bay AND an NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD slot, you can expand your mini&rsquo;s storage capacity to gigantic proportions. Three Thunderbolt (USB-C) ports enable you to connect to millions of Thunderbolt, USB, and future USB4 drives, displays, A\/V mixers, cameras and tablets; as well as desktop accessories like a keyboard, card reader, or mouse.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&rsquo;s 3 Thunderbolt ports <em>in addition<\/em> to the one that goes back to the Mac. It&rsquo;s $279 for the base configuration with no storage.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/22\/affordable-thunderbolt-4-cables\/\">Affordable Thunderbolt 4 Cables<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/24\/belkin-connect-pro-thunderbolt-4-dock\/\">Belkin CONNECT Pro Thunderbolt 4 Dock<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/09\/caldigit-ts4-thunderbolt-dock\/\">CalDigit TS4 Thunderbolt Dock<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/14\/the-impossible-dream-of-usb-c\/\">The Impossible Dream of USB-C<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"owc-ministack-stx-update-2022-08-09\">Update (2022-08-09): <a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2022\/08\/08\/owc-ministack-stx-expands-your-macs-storage-and-connectivity\/\">Josh Centers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2022\/08\/08\/owc-ministack-stx-expands-your-macs-storage-and-connectivity\/\">\n<p>While OWC explicitly designed the miniStack STX for the Mac mini, it fits well enough underneath my iMac, and it could also serve as a charging and Time Machine dock for a Mac laptop with an external display.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other World Computing: The miniStack STX now features Storage and Thunderbolt Xpansion, continuing its award-winning legacy as the best sidekick a Mac mini can have. Meet the world&rsquo;s first Thunderbolt certified Thunderbolt 4 storage solution. With a universal SATA HDD\/SSD bay AND an NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD slot, you can expand your mini&rsquo;s storage capacity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-04-18T20:26:40Z","apple_news_api_id":"a146e1fd-9597-4385-8885-fc9cfeb8e8b0","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-08-09T15:08:54Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AoUbh_ZWXQ4WIhfyc_rjosA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[452,30,557,2077,174,201],"class_list":["post-35612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-hardware","tag-mac","tag-macmini","tag-macos-12","tag-storage","tag-thunderbolt"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36709,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35612\/revisions\/36709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}