SSD Enclosure USB 3.0 with UASP Support - WHICH ONE?! Orico, Simplecom, StarTech, MantisTek

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  Diji1 on 24/12/2017 - 21:53

  +3

  I've only used a Simplecom for $14 but it seemed to run at SATA III speeds.

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    Hoju on 24/12/2017 - 22:13

    Thanks for the reply.
    Have you run any read and write tests on it? I’ve seen ranges of 250-360 for the cheaper units and it would be nice to find one on the higher end. I think an eBay review of the simple com said they got 260 write speeds which isn’t great.

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  projectk on 24/12/2017 - 23:54

  I've got the Orico and a Samsung EVO 850 1TB, and from memory I get about 130mb/sec write on it, forget how much read.
  Pretty sure the enclosure cost me under $10.

  I've had a few, I personally wouldn't spend more than $20.

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    Hoju on 25/12/2017 - 08:04

    +1

    Thanks for that.
    130/sec seems super slow though!

    Reading a few threads, 350+ for both read and write seems the expected minimum with UASP, and using the black magic app on OS X I get about 90-100 on the 5400 drive.

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  pinchies on 25/12/2017 - 01:20

  +2

  All of the Orico 2.5 usb 3.0 enclosures I have used have been nothing but excellent with a range of SSD's, and very rock solid for me. Highly recommended. I see no reason to spend more, in this specific case.

  All of them will provide some bottleneck over direct SATA connection unfortunately. All the brands use similar chipsets, the brand itself has little control over performance beyond which chip they select.

  Thunderbolt connected SSD will provide less bottleneck, but those interfaces are substantially more expensive.

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    Hoju on 25/12/2017 - 08:53

    Interestingly someone on some Mac forum posted disc speed tests using two different enclosures and there was a 10-20% difference in write speeds using the same ssd
    Hence I was kind of wondering if there were some dodgy ones, particularly as one reviewer got 260 and above was not getting 130

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      pinchies on 25/12/2017 - 09:54

      130 is crazy slow, I get ~80% or higher compared to SATA ports directly.

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        Hoju on 25/12/2017 - 10:02

        Ah thanks man.
        So even on the cheaper orico ones you’re saying 80% of the full rated speed (550 read / 500 write?)

        That would be more than good enough for me!

        I’m wondering if the 130 above was a USB 2 connection or something.

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        pinchies on 25/12/2017 - 11:02

        +1

        @Hoju:
        I get speeds with Blackmagic speed test up to
        395MB write and 412MB write using 960GB Sandisk Ultra II. This fluctuates a bit, depending on what the SSD is doing, but these are sustained speeds for a benchmark cycle (approx 5 seconds), indicating at least the capability of the adapter.

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        Hoju on 25/12/2017 - 11:09

        @pinchies:

        Absolute legend thank you for that, will happily buy! Thanks again for the input

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        99altezza on 19/02/2018 - 16:26

        @Hoju:
        HI Hoju, wondering how you are going with this setup on the Orico case on USB 3.0 connection for booting up MAC OS, I'm planning on doing the same thing as Thunderbolt connection is way too expensive. Do you mind sharing how quick the boot up time is?

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        pinchies on 19/02/2018 - 16:34

        @99altezza:
        FYI - I also used this same solution for my bootcamp partition, but at the moment I needed that SSD for other work, so I moved that system over to a 3.5" USB3.0 HDD, so unfortunately I can't share any numbers right now. As for before, it was plenty quick, no complaints. IMHO USB3.0 definitely has the bandwidth to make a USB bootable system more than adequate to be a fast practical solution.

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        99altezza on 19/02/2018 - 17:40

        @pinchies:
        Are we talking about signs any improvements from the internal standard hdd, like from 2 mins to say 15 secs for boot up time?

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        pinchies on 19/02/2018 - 17:46

        @99altezza:
        Yes, standard speedy SSD performance. Maybe 20 secs from memory.

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        Hoju on 19/02/2018 - 20:06

        @99altezza:

        I actually got a simplecom one off eBay AU
        It was about $10 posted and I popped a Sandisk Ultra II SSD in it

        Boot time is about 30 seconds on a 2015 iMac retina though it seems to go faster sometimes but that's ballpark
        With black magic write speed is about 250, read 400

        Hope that helps, very happy with the setup, apps load much faster and I run everything off the SSD and store all the stuff on the internal

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        99altezza on 19/02/2018 - 22:37

        @Hoju:
        Thanks for the info.