Bought a few different USB 3.1 Gen 2 enclosures from Amazon and put them through the paces today. I used a Samsung EVO 980 1TB NVMe stick and a Crucial MX300 M.2 SATA stick for the testing. I used the AmorphousDiskMark benchmark software for the speed tests.
Here is what I tested:
1. Mokin M.2 NVMe/SATA USB 3.1 Gen 2 enclosure. $30 RTL9210B chipset. Connected at 10Gb/s. 932 MB/s Read, 965 MB/s Write. It performed decently, but seemed to throttle when I did a complete CCC backup to it.
I also tested it with a M.2 SATA drive and it connected at 10 Gb/s. 415 MB/s Read, 514 MB/s Write.
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2. Orico M.2 NVMe/SATA USB 3.1 Gen 2 enclosure. $37 RTL9210B chipset. Connected at 10Gb/s. 932 MB/s Read, 962 MB/s Write. It performed decently, but seemed to throttle when I did a complete CCC backup to it; not as much as the Mokin, but it did a little bit.
I also tested it with a M.2 SATA drive and it connected at 10 Gb/s. 415 MB/s Read, 515 MB/s Write.
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3. Orico M.2 NVMe (no SATA support), USB 3.1 Gen 2. $20 RTL9210 chipset. Connected at 10Gb/s. 931 MB/s Read, 968 MB/s Write. This one performed best when doing a CCC backup. This is the one that I ended up keeping.
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4. UGreen dual slot M.2 SATA only enclosure. $47 Connected at 10 Gb/s. Using 2 Crucial Mx300 525GB SATA drives. 656 MB/s Read, 928 MB/s Write. This one did better than I thought it would, but the read speed is pretty slow as compared to the write speed.
UGREEN Dual-Slot M.2 Enclosure RAID for SATA NGFF SSD Aluminum USB 3.1 Gen 2 SuperSpeed with UASP Trim External Solid State Drive Enclosure Support RAID 1 and 0 Thunderbolt 3 Compatible
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5. Cable Matters dual 2.5" SATA enclosure. $52 Connected at 5 Gb/s. RAID 0, dual Crucial MX300 drives mounted in 2.5" Sabrent adpaters. 375 MB/s Read, 411 MB/s Write.
Cable Matters 10Gbps Aluminum Dual Bay 2.5 Inch External SSD Enclosure (USB C Enclosure) with USB-C and USB-A Cables Supporting RAID 1 and RAID 0 - Thunderbolt 4 / USB4 / Thunderbolt 3 Port Compatible
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