Was looking at these last week and ended up going with the Simplecom enclosure (they were the same price at $90) but this is cheap!
Pair with a NVME stick and you have a super fast external drive.
Excludes WA Remote
I'm using the SimpleCom enclosure and really happy with the max speeds plugged into my MacBook M1
SEQ1M QD8
Read [MB/s] 3430.55
Write [MB/s] 3235.56
Good to hear it works so well in real world usage
Impressive backwards compatibility too, all the way back to USB 2.0.
What price do you see in the cart?
Did you select the 40Gbps option - default price seems to be for the slower one.
yeah that 40Gbps is $98 there
Thanks, ordered. Because it’s fanless, I wouldn’t recommend a high power SSD that will generate a lot of heat. I’d recommend an SK Hynix P31 Gold, that’s what I’ll be pairing it with
I paired it with the WD Black SN7100 and am very happy with the thermals and speed.
SN7100 is a great drive but unfortunately you can’t utilise the Gen 4 speeds in this Thunderbolt 4 enclosure
Indeed, I only went with it as it may end up in my PC build down the line, otherwise it is overkill.
The SK Hynix P31 Gold looks well reviewed.
@pilotg2: What speeds are you getting? I did some further research, the ASM2464PD controller in the Wavlink doesn’t use USB4 Gen 3x2 asymmetric 2-lane mode, instead it sticks to PCIe tunneling which seems to be limited to around 3100MB/s, compared to 3800MB/s USB4 asymmetric
@antik: As mentioned I'm using the Simplecom SE640 enclosure which has the same controller.
On my Mac I'm getting the speeds in a comment above. Unfortunately I don't have a USB 4 Windows machine to test on.
According to most YouTube videos I saw I'm very happy with the speeds.
@pilotg2: Ah I didn’t see that above. Mac M1 uses full USB4 Gen 3x2 asymmetric mode which is why you’re getting closer to full 3800MB/s speeds. With the Thunderbolt 4 ports in my windows laptop I’d probably only get around 3000-3100MB/s. I’ll report back once it arrives
@antik: I see the USB 4 board one is plugging into can also limit speeds! https://youtu.be/opPNKCh_Evo?si=heLEXoYAiql-_OO2
Thermals on my setup are good, I also have the drive placed on an old iPad which acts as a giant heat sink.
Are you getting anywhere near the max speeds for read/write?