Looks like they sell this one on aliexpress with or without power brick (149 vs 139). Also looks like they have other enclosures just for the NVME. Wish they were also available on Amazon.... Any idea how it is to order from aliexpress? Also, look at where you put the NVME, on the bottom? Interesting. Do you think that enables better cooling?
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Thunderbolt 3 M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosures
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I got mine from Aliexpress. It took ~ 3 weeks to arrives, because it was not in stock. Yes the NVME is installed in the bottom by removing the bottom plate, very easy. Don't know about cooling, it never seems to get very warm.
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If you look closely at the pictures I think that "with power" simply means an USB C to pin - AC Adapter.
Edit: I could swear I saw that earlier. Now the pictures in the review show a power brick ??? Anyways this seems to have superseeded the previous docking station from Jeyi.
How did the 5456.17 MB/s RND4K QD1 speed (in the "Apple SSD AP0512Q / Apple M1" screenshot) happen ?
About you wanting to "boot the whole system externally" and your requirement to "plug my external MacOS into any new machine to get back up and running". The following might be interesting reads.
I don't know if mine is an Orico T3 but I have been using mine with a Sabrent Rocket 1Tb on an M1 MBA with no problems.
This is mine as discussed in this thread.
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Seems only the USB 4.0 version of this enclosure is available locally (in UK) - so have ordered one from Amazon to test with an Addlink S90 2tb on an iMac 2020 i7 - hopefully will be OK - worked great with the Orico T3 which I sold (mistake) & replaced with the Sabrent dual rugged Thunderbolt 3 - massive mistake. Been through 2 of those enclosures. First one damaged but worked, albeit suffering from random disconnections, replacement arrived but had same issue with disconnections. Back to the Orico if this one doesn't work.Are we talking of this?
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I recommend the TB3 only version. Works on TB4 ports too.
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Did your Orico T3 have the same Addlink S90 2TB? If you posted results before, can you update your post with a link to the previous post?
Yep, same drive. Didn't post the results but if I recall read was approx 2500, write 2350, but with with what appears to be throttling. No such issues with this enclosure. As a comparison, AmorphousDiskMark gave different results.
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JEYI listened to you. The dock is now available with or without power adapter.
I been looking at the Acasis USB4, and ORICO USB4 NVme m.2 enclosures online which are generally in very short supply. Are both using the older Intel® JHL7440 Thunderbolt™ 3 Controller that doesn't support USB4?
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The M1 24" iMac specs show it uses a controller that supports
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The M1 24" iMac specs show it uses a controller that supports
- Thunderbolt 3 (up to 40Gb/s)
- USB 4 (up to 40Gb/s)
The amazon pages for the ACASIS and ORICO both show JHL7440 in their pictures.I been looking at the Acasis USB4, and ORICO USB4 NVme m.2 enclosures online which are generally in very short supply. Are both using the older Intel® JHL7440 Thunderbolt™ 3 Controller that doesn't support USB4?
thanks for insight you guys can supply, yes I know about that Indiegogo Gigadrive that claimed to use a JHL8440.
There aren't any enclosures that use anything newer than the JHL7440 (Titan Ridge) as far as I know. Well, except maybe that Gigadrive.
https://www.techradar.com/reviews/gigassd-gigadrive-1tb-external-thunderbolt-4-ssd
The only issue using JHL7440 might have that I can think of is that it won't work at 40 Gbps when connected to a USB4 host that does not support Thunderbolt. I don't think any such hosts exist yet. If they did exist, you might be able to get 40 Gbps to the enclosure anyway by connecting it to a Thunderbolt 4 dock.
EDIT: Forget what I posted below. It's not going to give you the NVMe enclosure functionalilty.
There is also the Razor Thunderbolt 4 Dock:I been looking at the Acasis USB4, and ORICO USB4 NVme m.2 enclosures online which are generally in very short supply. Are both using the older Intel® JHL7440 Thunderbolt™ 3 Controller that doesn't support USB4?
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The M1 24" iMac specs show it uses a controller that supports
thanks for insight you guys can supply, yes I know about that Indiegogo Gigadrive that claimed to use a JHL8440.
- Thunderbolt 3 (up to 40Gb/s)
- USB 4 (up to 40Gb/s)
According to this review (in German) it uses a JHL8440 controller: https://www.computerbase.de/2021-05/razer-thunderbolt-4-dock-chroma-test/
Those comments at Indiegogo do not inspire confidence, nor trust : https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gigadrive-world-s-fastest-external-ssd#/comments...., yes I know about that Indiegogo Gigadrive that claimed to use a JHL8440.
Yup, all the Thunderbolt 4 hubs/docks use the JHL8440 Goshen Ridge chip.
Hard to say without buying them all. There's 3 configs that I've seen:
1) hub - one hub for all four ports. (OWC, Zikko, etc)
2) CalDigit Element Hub - I don't think I've seen others with this config - it uses two hubs.
3) dock - three hubs. (Kensington, OWC, Razor, Sonnet, etc.)
#1 and #3 appear to all use the same design. Some of the hubs and docks might have a power button.
Is the Acasis shown to be connected with Thunderbolt or USB in System Information.app?
I'm on a Intel Mac running Catalina.
I installed the 4TB WD_Black SN750 (WDS400T3X0C) in the Fledging shell thunderbolt 3 enclosure.
I'm getting 1100 MB/s write in BM speed test. I also transferred 100 GB and was getting a sustained 1100 MB/s.
That seems slow to me, I would figure I would get closer to 2000 MB/s, or at least 1500 MB/s.
Any ideas?
I installed the 4TB WD_Black SN750 (WDS400T3X0C) in the Fledging shell thunderbolt 3 enclosure.
I'm getting 1100 MB/s write in BM speed test. I also transferred 100 GB and was getting a sustained 1100 MB/s.
That seems slow to me, I would figure I would get closer to 2000 MB/s, or at least 1500 MB/s.
Any ideas?
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Maybe caldigit element hub splits the total bandwith for each of his ports? So 40Gbit\s divided by 4 (3x TB each 10GBit\s + 4x USB with 10GBit\s in total) would be 10Gbit\s which is roughly your seen total bandwith on the connected ssd... Or it's nevertheless recognized as USB 10Gbit\s. Both seems possible looking at your speeds. No info on Caldigit site but they can only support 40GBit\s in total and no more...
Any other methods to test for the max bandwith of a single port on the calidigit element hub?
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