Sabrent USB 3.1 Aluminum Enclosure for M.2 NVMe SSD in Silver (EC-NVME)

I have read too many Vine reviews. The enclosure is very nice and solid. The Samsung 970 EVO PLUS is what I am using with it. I believe there are way too many VINE reviews for this product. Usually a good product would also have lots of USER reviews (which are not Vine reviews). You can get reviews on Vine if you're sponsored. There is no point in them being unbias, they're not normal users who would come to amazon to purchase the product in question, so their reviews / use are different than those of someone who regularly comes to amazon to find something specific to buy. I wrote this summary in part to help those who will be copying large files ( 60GB to 500GB + ) from the enclosure ( which are reads) to any other device. The copies always abort prematurely when enclosure is connected to a USB-connected computer or device. It supports USB 3. 1 when it is connected to a USB C port. In Gen 1, 2 is mentioned. If the enclosure is connected to a regular USB port, it will not appear on your computer USB 3. 0 compatibility a device that supports it. When Gen 1 is enabled, then copies (read from enclosure) work 90% of the time, which means that copies do not stop or abort in the middle of the copying process. Later, I will update, refine, and reformat this review in an effort to make it even more succinct. Trying to read ( copy from the enclosure while it was connected to the USB-host, I spent a ton of money A USB 3 port on the C port is available. Gen 2 ) to function. The following products and tests were purchased and attempted as part of my elimination and isolation process There are two Samsung 970 EVO 1TB NVMe PCIe drives. Those devices are both Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB NVMe PCIe cards. I have two Dell XPS 15 9570s, 32GB of memory, 1TB of NVMe, PCIe, and a laptop. ). The second SSD came in. The three NVMe, PCIe, and M cards I've tried so far have all failed. I have tested 2 enclosures, and they all behaved the same way While the Compact Flash Enclosure is connected to a USB port, write / copy large files to 970 EVO or 970 EVO plus while the enclosure is connected to the USB port. A USB 3 port on the C port is available. I have never, ever had any issues writing or copying to enclosures using 1 Gen 2 and Always works 100% of the time. But if you already copied a file from NVMe, PCIe, M enclosure to 970 EVO or 970 EVO Plus, make sure you copy the same file again. The data will be copied to any drive (internal or external) and the copy will begin, but files WILL ALWAYS need to be backed up. The write always fails to finish no matter what device / memory / drive it is on. An irony is that a Samsung T5 enclosure with a 1TB hard drive in it NEVER fails when copying data. Moreover, there are no thermo issues since the fan blows directly onto enclosures during the whole copy process and it remains cool to cold throughout. Please see below for more details. After I update this review, I will let you know. In any case, there is nothing to complain about except that this enclosure and the others below always fail during the middle of copying large files from the enclosure ( which are READs from the enclosure) to any of the following drives when the enclosure is connected to a USB-powered computer Having a Gen 2 10Gbps and Thunderbolt port is a nice combination. The following are the specs for the Windows 10 Pro computer with Dell XPS 15 9550 The two systems are 9570 I bought a 32GB memory stick and a 1TB SSD which were both NMVe PCIe cards. Plug in the Sabrent enclosure with the 970 EVO Plus to the USB port of the enclosure There is a C port on the computer. Writing to the enclosure is very, very fast, as expected, and will never fail or terminate prematurely during writes (copies) to it. Nevertheless, when trying to copy the same file as you just wrote into the enclosure (for the purpose of backing it up) the copy from enclosure fails about halfway through copying from the enclosure to the Internal Drive in the ) and it also fails in the middle of copying from the enclosure when copying to A USB 3. 0 port is currently available only on USB 3. 0 devices. The following devices are connected Portable Seagate 5TB drives, Seagate 8TB Hard Drive, and WD 4TB Portable Hard Drives featuring NVMe PCIe. There are two internal Samsung PM951 1TB drives

I have tried this numerous times, trying to copy the files from the enclosure while it was connected to the computer. Before copying and writing to the internal drives in an enclosure, I retrimmed the internal drive in the XPS 15s using the custom trim tool for the C Port. This program ALWAYS fails to copy the large file that has just been written to the The size of files is between 80GB and It starts copying ( 100GB to 500GB+ ) files slowly from enclosure to internal drive in XPS 15 then suddenly slows down at 750MB/s, then stops 30%, 40%, 50%, 60% of the way ( completed ), but never successfully completes. Copying from USB never succeeds when it's plugged in I will copy the same file that was written to it to any device I wish. HOWEVER, IF THE ENCLOSURE IS CONNECTED TO A USB PHYSICAL LINK, THE GUIDELINES BELOW APPLY There is one USB 3. 0 port on this stick A file can be successfully copied from the enclosure 90% of the time to any internal or external drive at a speed of Not only this enclosure is affected, but there are several others. I have tried the following enclosures and they exhibit the same behavior, so I suspect the USB-connected enclosure is causing the problem An abnormal state occurs on the C port mid-copy when it becomes saturated and dies. According to other reports and reviews on the internet, copies from MacBook Pro and iMac enclosures only work when they are not connected to a USB port A USB 3 port on the C port is available. The Sabrent Type - Gen 2 The NMVe PCIe M Key resources are provided here. I have 2 SSDs and one QNINE A USB 3 port and 2 USB 2. 0 ports. The following are the specifications for the SHINESTAR NVME NMVe PCIe key M-2 Gen2.

Zachariah Martinez

| Nov 23, 2020

A few edits Now that Pluggable has switched away from the troublesome JMC583 chip to the RTL9210, they're much more reliable! Pluggable offers a variety of features, details of which can be found on the product page. In every instance where the JMicron adapters failed miserably, I now have a Realtek RTL9210 adapter that works perfectly. The RTL9210 is one of the best wireless adapters on the market! It is unfortunate that there are very few adapters which use the Realtek chip at the moment, so if in doubt, get There is nothing to be done with this junk! Three of these USB to NVME adapters have failed to work in one way or another for me. The following are the steps I took It is powered by the SSK HE-35 The Plugable USBC is the C325 The Sabrent EC-type NVME and the NVME with SATA Below you can find what I learned from the NVME conference. In addition to testing these adapters with three different NVME SSD brands on five different computers, I also tested them with Linux software. Random power outages have occurred for me over the past few days There are disconnections, mistakes on the USB bus, read timeouts, and other problems with reliability in the system. An EFI boot looped on my desktop after the adapter was connected, but I disconnected it to fix the problem. I also experienced a warning from my laptop when a USB device exceeded its power There were times when the programs worked for a little while, but then they had no effect. If a short USB extension cable was placed between the drive and a USB port, USB bus errors would often occur. In this example, we'll use The USB port on the panel, otherwise working fine with other devices, would also cause the problem. In addition, all of these adapters possessed the same chip manufacturer inside. The SSK is powered by a JMicron JMS562, the Plugable by a JMicron JMS583, and the Sabrent by a JMicron JMS584. From my very own tests and the opinions of others, I suspect that there is something fundamentally wrong with the JMicron chip. You can get random disconnects, USB errors, and your computer will boot loop because of them, and I've even read reviews where people claim that they killed their SSDs because of overheating, but I blame the enclosures more than the JMicron chip for this. In the process of writing, I have found four chips on the open market (that I am aware of) that provide this kind of NVME-to-USB Asmedia ASM2362, JMicron JMS562, and JMicron JMS583 are among the products in the JMicron JMS562 series. As media or realtek chips - I do not have any experience with them.

At the moment, there are relatively few options for the Asmedia ASM2362. On Amazon, UGreen and Syba both offer models with these adapters, along with a multitude of generic Chinese ones. The products have not yet been tested by me. It seems that the Realtek RTL9210 is the newest chip and hence there are fewer options available for it, but there are at least two adapters here on Amazon and it looks like the best one to go for is the JEYI i9 GTR. The Asus device is also due to be released soon, but it doesn't look promising. The gamer That's about it. Neither I nor my wife have played with this chip yet, but we plan on doing so at some point. I just wanted to let you know that in order to run smartmontools (smartctl) it will take "-" to display info on your adapter. I would like to be sure that I have version 7. x of d sntjmicron" argument. If you score 0 or higher, you are good. It might not be necessary to use the -- in the future The argument holds for the moment, but for the long run it will not. With these adapters, it's real to worry about overheating. It deserves your serious attention. The use of slide-in type covers, such as the SSK and Plugable, is not recommended. Choose an adapter that is of the "sandwich" type, such as a I ripped off the labels on the SSD when I removed the thermal pads from both the SSK and Plugable, so I assume they were intended to be permanent because there's no way you could take them off without ripping the SSD label, which is exactly what I did. Aside from that, the thermal pads just didn't do an effective job of conducting heat away from the SSD and towards With both the SSK and Plugable, I was able to raise my Samsung 960 EVO's temperature past its 77C thermal limit, then the device throttled its In the end, I was able to lower the temperature to 70C with the Plugable by adding my own custom thermal pads to the top and bottom of the SSD, but this was ugly, difficult and took a lot of time. Go with an adapter with clamshell/sandwich style housing or you'll end up with a large and bulky device. Despite its great looks and great stability, the SSK adapter lacked one thing noise. I had the most stability and reliability issues with it due to its over-drawn power on one of my laptop's USB ports. In some computers, the Plugable adapter worked fine, but if you wanted to use a USB extension cable or front-port USB connector, you had to use a USB extension cable The USB ports on the side caused the failure. As for the adhesive on the thermal pads, it was also a pain to remove. The Sabrent EC-100 can be found here The USB C connector on the NVME carrier is too deep into the carrier, resulting in poor performance of the cable. There is no way to fully insert the plug on the cable because of the thickness of the aluminum carrier. As a result, the cable disconnects when I move the adapter around on my desk or when I wiggle the cable back and forth. Sabrent's EC-500 would not be able to take on the world without it. It might be a pretty good adapter to use NVME. You can put thermal pads on both sides so it picks up all the heat from the SSD. It's a big, heavy chunk of metal, so I'm sure it'll do the job. It's possible that the latch and cover can rattle around a little bit, but using a little tape or silicone might be able to solve that problem. By not including a USB port that would protrude slightly from the body so the cable can be fully inserted, the designers erred in design. I would suggest you check out the thread on AnandTech's forums titled "*STABLE* NVMe - PART 1 " if you are interested. Adapter for the USB port? The Thread ID for this thread is "stable-" An NVME-based system A USB port You need one. It is 2572973. Not only am I having trouble finding an adapter that actually works, but it seems more people are as Despite the fact that I wasted countless hours on these adapters and feel bad for returning them all, none of them work.

Meghan Pineda

| Mar 24, 2021

Are you telling me that I can use an enclosure made from a solid piece of metal without any Please sign me up for your newsletter! The problem is. In addition to having two notches that prevent us from using any standard TB3 cable, the USB port is recessed and has two notches. You can see the pictures better if you look closely. I don't seem to be able to find replacement cables that are compatible with this unit either. In this case, what would happen if I lost my cable or it broke?
Is it time to buy I had to modify my cables to fit their completely non-standard sizes Sabrent, how about a standard port?
No sir, thank you. The very fact that this is a dealbreaker for me is unacceptable. The refund request is being sent back.

Kali Mullins

| Nov 19, 2020