ACASIS 40Gbps M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure,PCIe to USB-C External
ACASIS 40Gbps M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure,PCIe to USB-C External Hard Drive Enclosure,Support Size 2280 M&B+M-Key,Compatible with Thunderbolt 3/4,USB4/3.2/3.1/3.0,Type-C Aluminum SSD Case Up to 2700MB/s
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Hard to set up at full speed Mac studio- M1 Max read as usb but after a lot of googling, cable swapping and reboots works as pci-e express. Read /write speeds near 2800mb/s no drop outs like my cheaper eBay product which was useless and went for a refund (unbranded).
A solid well made and constructed product. Fast speeds, no over heating the fan is literally quite with out using the silence switch. I certainly recommend. I’m very happy to say the least!
Transfer speeds are excellent and haven’t had any issues so far with the two I purchased. Allows me to actively edit and playback 6K ProRes footage on my Macbook Pro with no problems at all.
Worth getting the fan version IMO – the enclosure will get hot when you’re actively working with it or doing lots of data transfer. It’s about the same volume and pitch as a generic laptop fan on medium speed – not too intrusive. Shame you can’t tweak the fan speed slightly, as the default speed keeps it plenty cold enough. Maybe there’s a way of modding it?
I bought the nvme version last month and my 4TB Samsung 990 PRO arrived yesterday.
Installation, partitioning (I set up a 1 TB and a 3TB for legacy reasons). Formatting went smoothly.
Then I did a disk speed test(average of 5). Read speeds are impressive but write speeds are about much slower. Testing was repeated with and without a Thunderbolt hub, the result the same. Other older drives (different enclosures not thunderbolt) do not have the same discrepency using the same USB port. Any ideas? The specs for all the components indicate a much smaller difference
I bought the Acasis 40Gbps enclosure after seeing online video reviews. It is an excellent product, robust and well made. It is very easy to install NVME M2 SSDs and I used a Samsung 980pro SSD. The speed of the device is in line with reviews and I get around 2.8-3.1 GB/s speeds – pretty much as good as the internal SSD on my MacBook M2 Pro.
The only issue I had is that it is very difficult to ascertain if the heat pads supplied are in contact with the case when they are applied to the SSD. Using the 1mm pad was not enough and adding the 0.5mm on top, I was still not certain. I purchased 3mm pads, but that was a bit too much – I think that with my components, a 2mm pad is about right …… if that helps others.
I inserted a 4TB Crucial P3 Plus SSD into this and it was fairly simple to set up. It is very solidly build and has a premium feeling weight to it.
The included fan can be useful for large transfers and it is very quiet, barely audible more than 2 meters away. The speeds are great too, often time averaging around 2GB per second. One thing to note is that this enclosure is more aimed at a static setup where you don’t want to be swapping drives too often as it only includes two thermal pads which are needed for optimal performance but tricky to take off once installed.
Overall, I recommend it and am happy with the purchase.