NVME SSD: The best USB 4.0 Housing for your External NVME SSD!

I have a m.2 with heatsink what do you recommend enclosure plug and play not removing the built in heatsink. Thanks

Tnks for yest. Tell me the model acasis

Your favorite SSD housing is 139 Dollars? Doesn't make sense

sebrent has a wide issue of many units random disconnecting, I've even tried the 2023 firmware update, unit unusable, rand disconnects no matter what cable type.

to clarify, apple does not support and has not supported 3.2/2x2 for usb, only thunderbolt 4, thunderbolt 3, usb 4, usb 3.1 (10gb), usb 3.0 (5gb) usb 2.0 and usb 1.1, on any of their silicon products, why that is only apple knows, though it should be noted, appropriately equipped docks/hubs with their own usb controller chips, may, I repeat: may give access to usb 3.2 mode, but it ain't guaranteed

Have you tested with KINGSTON KC3000 2Tb?

Has anybody found an enclosure that fits the Samsung 980Pro WITH the heatsink? Looks like all of these do NOT have heatsinks (I currently have two drives without heatsinks in the Orico enclosure).

Does somebody know how the performance with the Kingston KC3000 in the acasis case is?

SSD Enclosure (housing LOL ;D "German english") is not responsible for the speed here, but the PCIe. PCIe 3.0 SSDs will be slower than PCIe 4.0 SSDs. Even if the interface of SSD Enclosure is 3.94 GB/s, a PCIe 4.0 SSD will run faster.

Have you had any failures reading hard drives with the Yottamaster through a USB connection?
I could not get two high speed high capacity nvme drives going with it, two 2TB SN8250X's and two 1TB FireCuda 530's would not read and could not be initialized or formatted whilst connected to my PC's Z690 motherboard through usb.
Meanwhile M1 Macbooks and Mac Studios read all of them without a hitch connected through Thunderbolt.
It is most likely one of the two controller chips, the JMS583 for USB, included on most of these enclosures that are just not compatible with some nvme's. I say Some because I did manage to use the Yottamaster enclosure on all fronts with a 970 Evo in it, but that one is only 500GB and not enough space for my intent, so now I worry about getting another 2tb nvme. Have you tested either the 2TB 980 pro or 970 Evo to work through USB specifically?
Thank you

Good comparison! Funny thing using the Acasis with a 980 pro on my 2017 iMac on my Thunderbolt 3 (USB 3.1) 40Gps I get low speeds in comparison 1209w-1655r then 2nd read dropped to 126w-1676r tested with black magic, what gives?

Great review, detailed. The text is hard to read on mobile though ... So .. tiny. Still an awesome video.

Thorough testing. Great vid.

Do you have a list of ones that will actually stay connected? Lol.

Thank you for your comprehensive test. I use Microsoft Onedrive on my Macbook and I want to synchronize Onedrive with a folder on an external drive. Therefore I am looking for an external storage which would have the Removable Media Bit set to "0". Do you know whether any of the tested packages are recognized by the MacBook as "non removable" or whether the controllers can be patched accordingly?

I can only find these 2 ICY box options, Is one better than the other for an M1 MacBook Air and Samsung EVO Plus?
ICY BOX M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure with Gaming and Fan and Innovative Heatsink Design with USB 3.1 Gen 2 Transfer Speed for Connecting to Type-C and Thunderbolt 3 Ports
or
ICY BOX M.2 NVMe Enclosure for M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD, USB 3.1 (Gen 2, 10 Gpbs), USB-C & USB-A Cable, Aluminum, Black
Price is not much different...? Thanks Mainly for editing 4K video in FCPX

I agree TOTALLY with your view that READ SPEEDS are important when EDITING videos, after all, isn't that what saves us time when rendering a final edit?! Thanks so much for this comparison. However I did not see you trying this out with the Sabrent ROCKET SSDs... yet. I will be using 2Terabyte SSDs for the SCRATCH files and it really matters when FINAL editing to save production time. Do you agree?

Which do you recommend between the most baougt Orico or Ugreen SSD enclosures from AliExpress?

Great testing! Can you install Samsung 980 Pro with heatsink into Acasis housing or there is no need for buying heatsink model?

No offense, but this 20 minute video could be a diagram

Just can’t understand. ORICO is 40 gbit/sec (which is 5 gbyte/sec). Samsung drive is faster than that. Why this combination speed is so low?

I bought SSD Samsung 980 but I don’t understand what enclosure to purchase. Any recommendations?

Great in depth review - tx!

Thank you for this in depth review. Perfectly done! Appreciate it. ❤

Interesting test. But what about the temps of the NVMe and the cooling capability of each enclosure?

Ahhhhh and right now the 980 pro is cheaper 😅 just when I thought I was going to go with your decision

Thank you for your testings! Exactly what I was looking for! :)

What about housings with a fan ?

Are there nvme enclosures that use USB A, instead of usb c?….

I have like 10 nvme around house and multiple pcs and I wanted a solution to just access a nvme like a standard hard drive so have a quick look what is inside and format them if needed, so this is actually what it does?

Are the ssd in afps or exfat format?

Hi bro ..i have hp pavilion laptop with 1tb hdd...my laptop supports only sata slot and should i go for sata internal ssd or should i go for external ssd or should i buy internal nvme ssd and enclosure ..my laptop has one usb 3.0 port...
Does connecting nvme ssd with enclosure with 3.0 usb is faster than internal sata ssd?

Your testing method is completely flawed, and nothing can be gained from having watched it. The only thing i see in your tests is broken or incompatible hardware, noise, and cache write off.

If your going to test in the way you are proposing you would need to run full >2tb volume transfers to heat up each enclosure and device to see which throttles first, and run off their cache. And not by using an speed-o-meter app that tests a 32mb transfer or whatever trivial amount that you had used. And you would need to plot the transfer speeds over time to see something meaningful (cache write off / thermal throttling).

All of your devices are also nearly identical, and testing the NVMe's are going to be closely similar in value with the lack of accuracy that your using in your tests. (other than 'something broken' with the Icy Dock which is likely why they took it off the market, and 'something else broken' with whatever derelict P5 you were using).

Also, If you want to test the USB4.0, you'll need something like a Firecuda 530 to do that.

When you do these benchmarks, could you also run them on a Windows machine? I purchased an enclosure and SSD based on this video. While the read performance was as expected, the write performance on the EVO 970 plus connected to a Thunderbolt port on a new Dell XPS 17 (9710) was slower than my Sandisk Extreme USB 3 drive.
I opened a support case with Amazon and they set up a conference call with Samsung who said the drive was not supported in an external housing.
Since I don’t have the time or hardware to chase down the problem, I returned the external enclosure.

awesome testing, finally precise :) thanks

Thanks, Great video, this is what I'm looking for.

Will work with “SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD with Heatsink 2TB PCIe Gen 4 NVMe M.2 Internal Solid State Hard Drive”

Great video but most of them are unavailable in Canada. Damn

Why do you keep looking off camera to your lower right?

Nice testing, Chris. It would be interesting to see how the SK Hynix Gold P31, the Platinum P41, the WD Blue SN570 and the WD Black SN770 perform with these enclosures.

It seems to me that there are some issues with the controller/bridge for this kind of device. USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) devices can deliver 1,000 MBps read and 900 MBps write speeds while USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 (20 Gbps) devices does 2,000 MBps reads and 1,900 MBps writes. So I wonder why USB 4 (40 Gbps) devices fall short and are barely faster than USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 devices? Considering that USB 4 enclosures are almost 3 times the cost of USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 and almost 7 times the cost of USB 3.2 Gen 2 enclosures, I would think very long and hard before buying them.

Please include the surface temperature for comparison. The faster the ssd run, the boiling heat to hurt your hands

what format are these drive did you set them? mine is exFat so I could get the crossflat use but I'm getting a lower read and write than these result.

Hi Chris, thanks for the test and for the time spent. Could you share any info you may have on heat and heat dissipation on the Acasis housing please ?

Thanks. I'm wondering if any of these support more than 2TB SSDs -- specifically 4TB and also wonder if they work with M1 Ultra.

This from Amazon (North America): The enclosure (ACASIS) does not support Samsung 970 Evo plus SSD

Thank you for the testing. Helpful for me to make the decision.

Will the new SN770 perform better than SN750 on Acasis enclosure?

Very helpful to rescue me from my dilema on my first ever External SSD to use with my M1 ipad pro and other windows devices.

Thank you very much for this. As a fellow video editor, it's especially interesting to me that you say the read speeds are far more important than the write speeds when it comes to video editing. I thought the write speeds also came into play when rendering sections of a timeline that wouldn't play back w/o dropping frames/ won't play back at full resolution, etc. Then there's exporting projects from the editor as well. I've never done tests on these tasks though, so I don't really know. Would you mind explaining? I'd love to say some $ and buy something like the 970 Evo over the 980 Pro!

Free to get USB-C enclosure for M.2 NVMe/SATA SSD,only 5 pieces,connect me plz