M.2 PCIe Enclosure?

sickcars wrote: ↑ Hey guys,

Looking for a M.2 PCIe enclosure and wondering if anybody has one. I'm looking for a good quality one as I plan to keep it for a long time and will be used for fixing client computers if needed. I know I could but an adapter or something for $10 but I'm looking for something better.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

LazedOut8 wrote: ↑ Is this what you're talking about?

ASUS Hyper M.2 X4 MINI CARD M.2 to 32Gbit/s with PCIE slot
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_ ... _id=097183

coilz wrote: ↑ I have one of these https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0872RX3VV on order from aliexpress during their 11/11 sale... should arrive sometime in december. It states its "dual protocol". Don't have a sata M.2 drive at the moment, but will be testing it with a NVME m.2 drive when it arrives for sure.

coilz wrote: ↑ I have one of these https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0872RX3VV on order from aliexpress during their 11/11 sale... should arrive sometime in december. It states its "dual protocol". Don't have a sata M.2 drive at the moment, but will be testing it with a NVME m.2 drive when it arrives for sure.

sickcars wrote: ↑ Nope an external Enclosure something like this...

https://www.amazon.ca/StarTechM-2-SATA- ... B00T8F298Y

But looking for suggestions on quality ones maybe somebody has used them before & has experience of the better ones.

Canuck_TO wrote: ↑ I bought this one recently and it worked fine with my XPG Gammix S70 1TB drive.
It's metal and comes with a thermal pad as well. It supports drives up to 2280 lengths and uses rubber twist clips to lock the drive in place instead of screws.

$35 and supports up to 2TB drives.
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B08Y7F ... UTF8&psc=1

Canuck_TO wrote: ↑ I didn't really use it to do a proper speed test.
I used it to check the firmware in my drive.

I connected it to my old i7-4770K based PC, through a hub. So, not the best test system. (I have another new X570 based system)
I did copy a large Windows ISO, as a quick test and I think I was getting under 300MB/s.

What did you need an enclosure for?

Checking the box, it says that it has a USB 3.2 Type-C connector.
Control Chip RTL9210B (10Gbps).

10Gbps should give you around 1GB/s throughput (maybe just over that at best).
If you're looking for faster than this, you would need the 20Gb/s version of an external enclosure.

redfd123 wrote: ↑ Thanks for responding! I would probably be using it to clone an NVME drive and maybe transfer data in the future, if needed. I was mixing up listings: I was confused because this one has a weird description. It says both that "up to 1000MB/s" and "M.2 NVMES SD on this nvme enclosure speed up to 10Gbp/s, Sata SSD on this nvme enclouser speed up to 6Gbp/s". There is only one customer benchmark photo, but it also shows speeds maxing out at around 300MB/s, which is similar to what your speed capped out as. In contrast, while they are a bit more expensive, other enclosures have customer benchmarks showing speeds >3000MB/s. So, I was wondering if this one can truly exceed 1000MB/s or if getting a decent transfer speed for NVME is not even plausible. 200MB/s would be great for a spinning HDD, but very disappointing for an NVME SSD.

Edit: I am mainly interested in this enclosure because it has the 'good' (RTL) chip at a low price point.

Canuck_TO wrote: ↑ Unfortunately, my drive is in my PS5 already and I don't have another to test in my newer PC.
Where are you finding 20Gbps enclosures that are able to transfer at >3000MB/s?
If you're looking for those speeds, I think you want a 40Gbps Thunderbolt/USB 4 enclosure and they're much more expensive than the 20Gbps products.