I believe shipping should be imminent as my credit card just got debited today. I had pre-ordered mine in late June.Waiting on my pre-order... no word from them regarding the delay or any idea when it’ll ship...
OWC UK reseller said:Unfortunately OWC have now advised that the OWC Envoy Express Thunderbolt 3 Bus-Powered Enclosure for 2280 M.2 NVMe SSD will not be available until the end of October. Apparently this is due to some certification delays.
This is strange...Just got this message regarding my pre-order...
In macOS 10.15.6, on Mac mini 2018, using AmorphousDiskMark 2.5.5:Samsung 960Pro 2TB reached only 800MB/s write in any JHL6340 enclosure I tested
It’s probably because mine is coming from the reseller in the UK.This is strange...
I received yesterday by email the invoice as well as the USPS tracking number.
I actually pre-ordered via Mac Sales.
I don't have Windows installed, but mimicking the Crystal vs Amorphous benchmarks from mackiemesser2's results, I think I'm pretty happy with the Sabrent now (and the Orico enclosure) after going into a girly panic before. Especially when compared to the soldered Apple SSD. Not enough of a speed difference to even notice it in everyday use.
In macOS 10.15.6, on Mac mini 2018, using AmorphousDiskMark 2.5.5:
My Samsung SSD 960 Pro 1TB is similar. 2607MB/s read, 856MB/s write.
My Samsung SSD 950 Pro 512MB: 2598MB/s read, 1041MB/s write.
These are in a Thunderbolt enclosure behind two PCIe switches (Sonnet Echo Express III-D and Amfeltec gen 3 four M.2 carrier card).
This is one of the inherent flaws of SSD benchmarks. The SLC cache limitation often does not play in real world scenarios.Your aforementioned inconsistent benchmark results could be because of the SLC cache is full
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But if you're not writing more than 16GB at a time (this is the amount the SLC cache can buffer) and you're happy with the speed of the Sabrent all is fine.
This is one of the inherent flaws of SSD benchmarks. The SLC cache limitation often does not play in real world scenarios.
Same with CPU benchmarks, there are precious few situations where I have an extended multi-threaded workload on my CPU. A Handbrake encode might be the only one for me.
I have both a Sabrent Rocket PCIe Gen4 m.2 SSD and the ADATA XPG 8200 PCIe Gen3 m.2 SSD on a B550 motherboard (which supports Gen4). The only time I can push the Gen3 stick is when I copy a very large file from the Gen4 stick. That rarely happens since I'm using the Gen3 stick as a game library; most of the drive activity are disk reads.
The Gen4 stick is my Windows 10 boot drive. Naturally as a boot drive, write performance is quite important but again I don't need sustained write performance with humongous files.
I also have a Gen3 Sabrent Rocket m.2 stick in a cheapo $25 USB-C enclosure. I'm satisfied with its daily performance.
You can find the eclosure here (as already stated above):@mackiemesser2 that's a lovely looking enclosure, but not that compact.. Looks unecessarily wide? Is it available anywhere? I guess it shares the same board as most of the others we've been talking about?
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