WD BLUE SN550 1TB M.2 PCIe NVME SSD - Installation and Speed Test in Orico NVME M.2 Enclosure
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- Опубліковано 1 гру 2020
- I bought a WD BLUE SN550 1TB M.2 PCIe NVME SSD, this is a PCIe 3.0 or PCIe Gen 3 SSD. I install the drive into an Orico NVME M.2 Enclosure and perform a speed test and also describe how to increase the speed of transfer by enabling write caching in Windows. If you enable this feature please remember you have to use the 'Safely Remove Hardware' option to prevent data loss, that's one drawback of using this method.
Thanks for watching and feel free to ask any questions.
Hola puedo utilizar esa memoria como disco externo en una MacBook Air 2020 con M1
I've got a couple of NVMe drives, WD SN750 & Samsung Evo 970, both 1Tb. Have the Orico external enclosure, and feel they would be wasted as external drives, so thinking about getting the 2Tb variant of the WD SS550 as even that won't tax the external USB 3 or C connections really, whilst getting a larger capacity drive too.
Thanks for watching, I have to agree with you SN750 and Evo 970 are much more capable drives and can achieve higher speeds if used directly in a laptop or PC and they can attain speeds around 3000MB/s and the enclosures available these days max out at USB 3.2 Gen 2 which is 1000MB/s. Until we are able to buy USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 enclosures, which is capable of 2000MB/s (some manufacturers have created external SSD's with this spec but again your PC or Laptop will need a compatible USB port), definitely doesn't make sense to use a faster drive in the current enclosures. 2TB SN550 is a good choice and I believe the new Crucial P2 is also a decent candidate for this use.
@@TKsTechTalk Which laptops currently support USB 3.2?
Thanks for the video, I acquired the hardware although the enclosure is not the transparent one.
The original disk of my ACER Aspire 5 generates 1.9 GB, but the WD SN550 disk with Orico enclosure does not exceed 450MB.
It is not clear to me why the speed is so limited. I have already tested on 2 notebooks.
Hi, Thanks for watching. So usually this boils down to what type of USB C port you have on your laptop. Unfortunately not all USB C ports are the same and the naming conventions are confusing to say the least. For sake of argument lets stick to the current naming convention so i can answer your question.
I'm assuming you are using the USB C port on your Aspire 5 and unfortunately on this laptop and many others the max supported speed is 5Gb/s which equates to around 500MB/s (this ports is known as USB C 3.2 Gen 1). To achieve 10Gb/s (approx 1000MB/s) you need a USB C 3.2 Gen 2 port and for most laptops this is the maximum so you will still not be able to get to 1.9GB/s (1900MB/s). There are USB C 3.2 Gen 2x2 ports which do support 2GB/s but again these are rare. Newer laptops are now available with USB 4 or Thunderbolt 4 which I believe can achieve up to 40Gb/s so this would remove that bottleneck.
So far I have been talking specifically about USB C ports however I do know that some desktop PC's and even laptops have USB A ports which support USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gb/s (my asus B550M-K motheboard has 2 of these ports.)
Unfortunately this is very confusing and generally only high end laptops and desktops make use of 10Gb/s (or higher) ports and most consumers are unaware of these differences when purchasing.
Sorry if this was confusing and I hope it sheds some light on the subject. See if you can try on another laptop or desktop to see if you can at least achieve 10Gb/s (1GB/s). Hope that helps.
Hi, at what point does the transfer speed drops? My primary usage would be transferring footage from my Blackmagic camera to the drive...so the file sizes would be large. My question is regarding the WD Blue drive.
Hi, thanks for watching. Apologies for the delayed response. So I can't remember testing it but the SLC Cache is about 15 GB according to a a few reviews its around 24GB i think, might be a little more though I don't know the exact figure and I really wish it was easier to find this answer. This number varies massively for different drives and manufacturers.
What this essentially means is that your write speed will start to drop around the 24GB mark the seed will drop from 1700 MB/s to 800MB/s. Personally in my opinion this is acceptable since the price is not too much more than a 2.5" sata ssd which maxes out at about 520 MB/s. One more thing to point out is that the WD SN550 is a TLC drive with and SLC Cache. Being a TLC drive helps it sustain approx 800MB/s, and I'm sure as the drive gets closer to full this could change.
QLC drives definitely suffer more from big write loads but again its about the purpose of the SSD and each user experience will vary. If you are doing consistent transfer and time is important, then maybe chose TLC over the cheaper QLC drives, MLC is not really available widely and will continue to become less available as manufactures try to provide the masses with some sort of NVME solution at a good price. At the end of the day I think most consumers already don't know the capability of the SSD in their laptop by default and generally most are happy with the performance :).
Hope that helps, feel free to ask any other questions.
sir what temp that nvme ssd during copy file?
Hi, Thanks for watching. I've repurposed the drive for now so can't give you a temperature, however with these types of enclosures the drives do get hot and it was definitely hot to the touch. Hope that helps.
which format should i use? exfat or ntfs
Hi, Thanks for watching. It really depends on what you wish to use the drive for but to the best of my knowledge, assuming we are only talking about external storage, I believe exFat has wider compatibility with more different types of devices then NTFS. exFat is kind of a newer version of FAT32 without the 4GB file size limit.
If you are using a Windows based PC you can use either NTFS or exFat, but if you plan to use the same drive on a MAC I believe by default MAC has Read only access for NTFS and Read/Write access for exFat, so maybe exFat is the way to go if you intend to use on multiple types of devices.
Hope that helps.
@@TKsTechTalk thanks a lot :D
link to the enclosure?
Hi, Thanks for watching. I bought this in the UAE at the link below, and have posted US and UK links as well, hope that helps.
UAE:
www.amazon.ae/Transparent-Enclosure-Tool-Free-Samsung-Samsung970/dp/B07S4N9CLD/ref=sxts_sxwds-bia-wc-rsf1_0?crid=1YSR6JIL440OE&cv_ct_cx=orico+enclosure&dchild=1&keywords=orico+enclosure&pd_rd_i=B07S4N9CLD&pd_rd_r=de251642-085d-4c6e-a9c9-4c29bd926989&pd_rd_w=4fRPi&pd_rd_wg=6g0Vd&pf_rd_p=2347915f-1b79-4698-b5f4-230c518345e0&pf_rd_r=KT8B6YN2G1NAB6H2H2BP&psc=1&qid=1613579991&sprefix=orico+enc%2Caps%2C262&sr=1-1-f188f9fa-0157-48f5-a7ad-8e0892dbeeeb
USA:
www.amazon.com/ORICO-Transparent-External-Enclosure-Converter/dp/B08QV4L4M3/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?dchild=1&keywords=orico%2Bm.2%2Benclosure&qid=1613580094&sr=8-2-spons&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUFFQUFPVFdRUkRPMFgmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTA2MjM4MDAyN1o0NjM1VThDMFFFJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTAyNjU2MTAxNE9MRjZEQzYwVk5FJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ&th=1
UK:
www.amazon.co.uk/ORICO-Enclosure-Adapter-Samsung-Crucial-Clear-Case/dp/B07VD6G95Y/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=orico+m.2+enclosure&qid=1613580125&sr=8-5
This Usb work On TV ?
Hi, thanks for watching. I don't know the answer im afraid but i think it might work as it just an external storage device. The only thing i would recommend though is when you format the USB use exFat or fat32 im not sure if TVs support NTFS. Hope that helps.
@@TKsTechTalk thank you so much for Reply
How was it?
Hi, thanks for watching. So far the drive performs reasonably well in the enclosure and I have also tested it as a OS drive in my Dell Precision 5540. I also have another video showing it working on a PS5 though no where near at full speed, probably a PS5 limitation for external drives I guess. Either way for the price its a good 1TB NVME drive at a budget. Hope this helps.
You are getting slow speeds because USB C is not Thunderbolt even if they use the same plug. You will not get those speeds until they make USB 4 standard.
Hi, Thanks for watching. USB C is capable of 10GBps or approximately 1000MB/s. I tested the NVME Enclosure on my PC and was able to get over 700MB/s consistently and this could be an enclosure limitation or maybe a better drive will achieve the full 900 to 1000MB/s. Thunderbolt 3 is capable of 40GBps however the enclosure is much much more expensive and really not worth it for this use. Thunderbolt 4 and USB 4 will also be able capable of 40GBps and will be interesting to see how they work with existing Thunderbolt 3 enclosures and who knows once USB 4 becomes mainstream maybe the enclosures will come down in price, though I think that will take some time to mature. Hope that helps.
Thunderbolt 3 is already USB 4 compliant. Another bottleneck is the USB 3 cable itself. If you want to be sure your cable is compliant you can buy Thunderbolt 4 cables which will work with all versions. Those expensive Thunderbolt cables are expensive because they contain microprocessors, most people don't know that.@@TKsTechTalk