Will this dual sata enclosure work with my M1 MBA?

[thevisi0nary]

I am trying to avoid buying a new external drive for the time being. I have two 1tb sata ssds in my windows desktop that I would like to utilize as a single external drive for my M1 MBA.

I found this enclosure. I know that some peripherals have trouble with the M1 macbooks, and wanted to see if anyone more knowledgeable than me could prevent me from potentially wasting my time. Also, it says it can handle power over usb c (bus powered), but I'm not sure if that would be trouble using two sata 2.5 drives.

Appreciate any help.

 

[nguyen6323]

You'll need to supplement power with the included adapter as it doesn't seem to have power delivery compatibility from USB C

 

[thevisi0nary]

You'll need to supplement power with the included adapter as it doesn't seem to have power delivery compatibility from USB C

The seller claims it does have power over usb c in the q&a section, but whether this would work with both sata ports occupied I am not sure. Do you think there would be any potential issue with drivers?

 

[Fishrrman]

If it was me (I realize that you're NOT "me"), I would set the enclosure up as "JBOD", and mount each of the 1tb SSDs individually on the desktop.

Less chance of failure that way.

 

[MBehr2]

"an optional USB power cable ensures stable drive performance when transferring large files"

"Mac M1 computers, laptops, and other devices with the M1 chip only support 5Gbps data transfer. Intel Macs are not affected by this limitation"

Not sure if you read those two points in the product description - but there's that to contend with. I'm still aiming for the external NVMe M.2 2280 SSD OWC ENVOY EXPRESS or whatever one will finally get 10GBps throughput.

 

[Fishrrman]

This might be another possibility:

MiniPro RAID V3 USB-C Dual Bay

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