Ah, finally, a PH reviewer that isn't screaming in my ear or using too many sound effects. Just ordered one because of your review and I'm looking forward to using it. Good thing I have sheets of different thermal pad thickness on hand so I will be able to cover my 970 evo plus all the way. Thanks and subscribed!
Disappointed the thermal pad does not make proper contact with the enclosure. When you were sliding the top plate off and the pad still looking new and not smooshed or any kind of distortion is evidence of that.
It's likely your NVMe is so slow because you either need a firmware update, or you need to provision the drive for TRIM support. Most enclosures support TRIM, but not out of the box. It has to be enabled.
How can TRIM be enabled on an enclosure? These have no firmware or any way of managing their "settings". Also, how can you even know which Chipset is inside the enclosure? This type of information is not available so easily. You gotta contact the manufacturer or ask in forums (in case you wanna know indeed this Realtek-RTL9210 is in there).
I have nearly the same one, the system to retain the SSD to the board is just a weird knob that is very hard to install and falls off easily. I also had to upgrade the firmware to get TRIM support. My SSD has a tiny heatspreader on top as well and that made the thermal pad too tight for my liking so I instead used a blob of thermal paste, it doesn't spread but it does make contact between the heatspreader and the heatsink in the enclosure and the temperatures are absolutely incredible (when installed on my desktop I regularly saw up to 80C, on the enclosure the max I have seen is 46C)
Well I bought one of these enclosures and found that a brand new 1TB Crucial NVMe drive was an extremely tight fit. No whether it was me having to use some force to get the drive inserted or not the drive got extremely hot when plugged into a USB3.0 port on my Ivy Bridge build an am wondering what has got so hot.
I don't know why but I bought two of these enclosures -- using with 2 different Samsung 980 drives. BM drive speed test on my Mac mini M1 I'm only getting about 260mbps write speed. Any clues what I'm doing wrong?
What on earth... I didn't even know something like this existed. So this means I won't have to worry as much if a laptop I'm looking to buy in the future doesn't have enough storage for my standards~ Are these available in Shopee/Lazada though?
Haha yes! I have a base model m1 macbook pro (256gb only), so I house all my yt video/photo files on the external ssd to save space. And yes available in shp/lzd! Ive put a link on the description
I have this with walram 1tb and 256gb m.2 ssd. i am only getting 30+ mbps on black magic.. disappointed as I wanted to edit videos off of this enclosure.
i haven't had any heat-related problems so far. the aluminum top plate + thermal pad does enough for my use case. it varies on the SSD and use case. sustained very large read/write will generate more heat than sporadic read/write
@@earlmalaki I have a question about the thermal pad. I NGFF enclosure for a Samsung 860. I did not know where to stick the pad so I stuck the whole thing on the SSD. Is that bad?
Ah, finally, a PH reviewer that isn't screaming in my ear or using too many sound effects.
Just ordered one because of your review and I'm looking forward to using it.
Good thing I have sheets of different thermal pad thickness on hand so I will be able to cover my 970 evo plus all the way.
Thanks and subscribed!
Disappointed the thermal pad does not make proper contact with the enclosure. When you were sliding the top plate off and the pad still looking new and not smooshed or any kind of distortion is evidence of that.
It's likely your NVMe is so slow because you either need a firmware update, or you need to provision the drive for TRIM support. Most enclosures support TRIM, but not out of the box. It has to be enabled.
How can TRIM be enabled on an enclosure? These have no firmware or any way of managing their "settings".
Also, how can you even know which Chipset is inside the enclosure? This type of information is not available so easily. You gotta contact the manufacturer or ask in forums (in case you wanna know indeed this Realtek-RTL9210 is in there).
@@eladbari TRIM is a feature of the drive. All of that info is usually found in the description when you purchase a drive.
It's slow because it's getting bottlenecked by the maximum speed of USB 3.2 gen 2 port + reliability of the USB cable itself
rtl9210 one of the most popular updates on station-drives, so perhaps
Danke for this review. Now I have an idea for my spare SSD from old laptop.
Amazing review, thank you. I'll leave a comment so your engagement with youtube goes up.
I have nearly the same one, the system to retain the SSD to the board is just a weird knob that is very hard to install and falls off easily. I also had to upgrade the firmware to get TRIM support. My SSD has a tiny heatspreader on top as well and that made the thermal pad too tight for my liking so I instead used a blob of thermal paste, it doesn't spread but it does make contact between the heatspreader and the heatsink in the enclosure and the temperatures are absolutely incredible (when installed on my desktop I regularly saw up to 80C, on the enclosure the max I have seen is 46C)
Great Review and Thank You Mr Earl.
Ohh Cebuano youtuber, watching this vid while Im assembling this portable SSD
I have one of this, and now I am facing issues, it disconnects it self when I transfer files on my mac, please help me with this issue
Great vid! Will this work as an external storage for ps4 and ps5? Salamat.😁
Thanks man
Can you install software in the SSD, then run it on different device (PC, laptop, etc.)?
How has this been working after 2 years?
Hiii... Can I use this also for my S22 ultra? Or di I need to format the SSD?
Well I bought one of these enclosures and found that a brand new 1TB Crucial NVMe drive was an extremely tight fit. No whether it was me having to use some force to get the drive inserted or not the drive got extremely hot when plugged into a USB3.0 port on my Ivy Bridge build an am wondering what has got so hot.
nvme usually heats up so you need proper airflow or some sort of cooling
How we can remove the NVME mine is stuck in the enclosure.
How does it handle heat?
Boss how is the temp? Planning to buy this kasi ang init ng nvme ko sa mobo.
I'm only getting 40Mb/s? 😕
I wanna use it for my pc must I buy a usb to usb c to plug it in
It comes with free usb a-to-c and usb c-to-c cables
Can use direct to iphone ??
How are the temps bruh
any SSD reco for ssd to build with this i saw this enclosure in shoppee sir
the SSD choice should depend on your intended use and budget. safe picks are Samsung Evo and Western Digital Blue/Black
@@earlmalaki is the hamsta good i just need extra storage
I just got this enclosure and I'm getting 36.5 MB/s write speeds. Same SSD as yours. Maybe I got a faulty one.
hmm that's too low, definitely reach out to the store for a replacement
Sound like wrong port (USB 2.0)
USB 2.0 has 480 Mbps
@@Sweetaccord Yep, theoretical limit is 60MBps so 36.5MBps sounds like USB 2.0
@@setecastronomy_hc I don't have 2.0 on my new PC. Just got the PC a month ago. New model. 😕
I don't know why but I bought two of these enclosures -- using with 2 different Samsung 980 drives. BM drive speed test on my Mac mini M1 I'm only getting about 260mbps write speed. Any clues what I'm doing wrong?
Buying apple products is where you went wrong imo
What on earth... I didn't even know something like this existed. So this means I won't have to worry as much if a laptop I'm looking to buy in the future doesn't have enough storage for my standards~ Are these available in Shopee/Lazada though?
Haha yes! I have a base model m1 macbook pro (256gb only), so I house all my yt video/photo files on the external ssd to save space. And yes available in shp/lzd! Ive put a link on the description
Can you use this enclosure to clone your installed NVME ssd to a new larger one?
For installation in a laptop.
Yes, I used it to clone OS. Boot from USB with Linux gparted or Macrium Reflect.
I have this with walram 1tb and 256gb m.2 ssd. i am only getting 30+ mbps on black magic.. disappointed as I wanted to edit videos off of this enclosure.
I have same issue.
Thnx for the video, but how do you format it on a Mac ?
using disk utility
What about heat coming from the SSD
i haven't had any heat-related problems so far. the aluminum top plate + thermal pad does enough for my use case. it varies on the SSD and use case. sustained very large read/write will generate more heat than sporadic read/write
@@earlmalaki I have a question about the thermal pad. I NGFF enclosure for a Samsung 860. I did not know where to stick the pad so I stuck the whole thing on the SSD. Is that bad?
Bro pede ba kingston na brand dito?