The Ultimate Affordable NVME Housing: Unveiling the Best in Speed, Build Quality, and Price!
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Looking to expand your MacBook storage with a superfast NVME SSD? In this video, I am comparing 4 NVME SSDs and 4 USB-C Enclosures and will give you a ranking which ones I would choose after testing read/write and transfer speeds.
The SSDs and Housings were provided to me for free for testing purposes. This video was not sent for review and contains my honest test results and opinion.
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MY FAVORITE USB 4.0 NVME Housing:
Great Performance, Great Price:
Acasis - M.2 USB 4.0 NVME Housing
crsp.li/AcasisM2NVMEUSB4
MY FAVORITE NVME SSD:
Great Performance, Great Price:
Samsung 970 EVO Plus - 2TB M.2 NVME SSD:
crsp.li/Samsung970EVOPlus
Great Performance, too Expensive:
ORICO - USB 4.0 M.2 NVME Housing:
crsp.li/OricoM2NVMEUSB4
Great Performance, too Expensive:
Yottamaster - USB 4.0 M.2 NVME Housing:
crsp.li/YottamasterM2NVMEUSB4
Great USB 3.2 Housing (limited speed on MacBook):
ICY BOX - USB 3.2 M.2 NVME Housing:
crsp.li/ICYBOXM2NVMEUSB32
Super Fast but Expensive NVME SSD:
Samsung 980 PRO - 2TB M.2 NVME SSD:
crsp.li/Samsung980PRO
Great Performance, a bit Expensive:
WD_BLACK SN750 - 2TB M.2 NVME SSD:
crsp.li/WesternDigitalBlackSN750
Ok Performance (when it works):
Crucial P5 - 2TB M.2 NVME SSD:
crsp.li/CrucialP5
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🎧 Chapters / Show Notes:
00:00 Intro
01:28 A Note about the Prices
01:46 The Acasis Housing
02:06 The ICY BOX Housing
03:12 The Orico Housing
03:23 The Yottamaster Housing
03:49 The NVME SSD Drives in this Test
05:21 How did I test?
06:22 Benchmark: Acasis Housing
07:08 Benchmark: ICY BOX Test Results
08:30 Benchmark: Orico Housing
09:01 Benchmark: Yottamaster Housing
09:25 101 GB Data Transfer Test Results
09:41 Data Transfer: Acasis Housing
10:38 Data Transfer: ICY BOX Housing
11:38 Data Transfer: Orico Housing
12:21 Data Transfer: Yottamaster Housing
12:39 Ranking all Drives & Housings?
15:15 My Recommendation
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Thank you for your testings! Exactly what I was looking for! :)
Great test! Really clear and complete, thanks a lot!
Thorough testing. Great vid.
Best video out there on this subject. Well done!
awesome testing, finally precise :) thanks
Great in depth review - tx!
Thanks, Great video, this is what I'm looking for.
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.
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?
Thanks. I'm wondering if any of these support more than 2TB SSDs -- specifically 4TB and also wonder if they work with M1 Ultra.
Thank you for the testing. Helpful for me to make the decision.
Glad I could help
Great review, detailed. The text is hard to read on mobile though ... So .. tiny. Still an awesome video.
Great testing! Can you install Samsung 980 Pro with heatsink into Acasis housing or there is no need for buying heatsink model?
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?
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 ?
At this time I have not specific data about this.
Thank you for this in depth review. Perfectly done! Appreciate it. ❤
Will the new SN770 perform better than SN750 on Acasis enclosure?
Thanks for the video.
You're welcome.
Love that intro. Subbing on through lol
Appreciate it!
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.
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
What about housings with a fan ?
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?
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
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?
Which do you recommend between the most baougt Orico or Ugreen SSD enclosures from AliExpress?
I have a m.2 with heatsink what do you recommend enclosure plug and play not removing the built in heatsink. Thanks
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 the ACASIS housing overheat?
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.
Thunderbolt devices are back compatible with 3.2 gen 2. Gen 2x2 is not mandatory for thunderbolt certification. USB4 is OK as it is still USB protocol with same or better speeds - USB4 requires only 20Gbit/s, 40Gbit/s is optional for USB4
Have you tested with KINGSTON KC3000 2Tb?
Does somebody know how the performance with the Kingston KC3000 in the acasis case is?
Tnks for yest. Tell me the model acasis
I have a yottamaster enclosure. It randomly stops transferring files,so now I'm looking at lc power, natec or icy box.
I'd get the ACASIS or Orico. Those are solid housings with great speed.
Great video but most of them are unavailable in Canada. Damn
Please include the surface temperature for comparison. The faster the ssd run, the boiling heat to hurt your hands
I like my external nvme enclosures to have a fan.
Just BLOW ON IT MATE
Interesting test. But what about the temps of the NVMe and the cooling capability of each enclosure?
NAND flash like to be warm, so cooling it too much is not good for longevity. Luckily, that simplifies the testing process because NVME drives automatically lower their transfer speed to keep themselves from getting too hot. This means that you don't have to compare temperature to choose the best drive, you can just look at which enclosure has the highest transfer speeds. The enclosure that gives you the best transfer speeds is also doing the best job of keeping the drive cool. So if you look at the numbers on this video, you already have the full picture and can easily choose the best option (at least out of the ones he tested).
@@TPF00T This is a damn terrible advice...
Transfer speeds will not only be affected by the USB controller on the host side but the USB/NVMe controller/chipset inside of the enclosure and its quality. Simply looking at the "speed" will not tell you the temperatures, especially since every model of an NVMe controller will tolerate different temperatures before throttling. And that's even not to mention the RAM used in the specific SSD, its brand, type and capacity...
@@shapelessed I'm not following. He was asking about the temperatures, and I was informing him that it isn't a particularly useful metric. The only time temps matter is if the speed drops off a couple of seconds into a transfer, indicating that the drive is throttling. So no, looking at the speed will not tell you the temperatures, but knowing the temperature doesn't help you. Knowing if the enclosure is cooling enough to maintain full speed does help you.
@@shapelessed You understand that this guy tested the same drive in several enclosures, correct? Same chipset, same usb controller, different enclosures.
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.
That to me sounds like a lot of baloney. A nvme should work equally as well in an external and internal enclosure - pcie connections excepted.
@@kfl611 After I returned the external enclosure I ran across this video. ua-cam.com/video/0KGgER5MGLw/v-deo.html
If the problems I saw were due to Windows disabling write cache by default, hardware support from Samsung and the enclosure manufacturer should have known about it. I don’t have the time or money to set up a testing lab.
If losing power to the write cache is a real problem, why don’t the manufacturers add a capacitor to the enclosure circuitry to allow the cache writes to complete?
@@Anonymous-mf8ii I worked in a data center and our servers had cache batteries in them. They were about the size of a stick of gum, and if the server lost power for any reason the battery was supposed to save what ever info was in memory, till the power was restored and it could be written to the disks. Sometimes the servers had 1, 2 or 3 batteries in them, and sometimes there was no way to tell which one was bad. Sometimes they would be bumpy, and we could tell that was the one that needed to be replaced. I wonder if companies think it is important any more to keep their customers happy. You are right, it would not have cost but a few pennies to have a capacitor in there to hold cache stable, or allow somehow for write caching.
@@kfl611 same here - the newer raid controllers went to supercapacitors.
The only way we knew a drive failed was through lights and error messages. We barely noticed the slowdown during the rebuild on the hot spare.
In the good old days I had one raid system recovery that took a week. After that, management was willing to spend more money on a UPS and drop the third party drives.
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?
Yes, you can do this with these housings. But if you really just want a docking station, maybe you should buy an NVME docking station?
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.
that's the drawbacks of using that format
Hi. I use the same condition of Orico housing and 980 Pro. But, My Max speed is 2300 read and write. Maybe the different laptop. I using the 2017 MBP with eGPU on test.
You are very right that the laptop may make a difference here. I tested speeds with a 2015 MacBook Pro and those are slower than the new M1 that I am using. Thunderbolt and USB 4 did change a lot in that timeframe.
Though: 2300 read/write is still very performant! So, you should be good for most things you throw at that.
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!
There are use-cases in which the write speeds are important (using the drive as a cache drive or when exporting to the external SSD). Personally, I use the internal drive for cache and export and mostly use the external drive to store the project files which pretty much only get read anyways. That's why I would choose the 970 EVO if money is a constraint.
@@ChrisSpiegl Thanks!!
@@ChrisSpiegl have u ever try using the external for editing, cache and export? If Yes how much is the difference compare to the 970 EVO to using internal drive? As currently, i am deciding between the MBP M1 Max 24GPU/64GB Ram (2TB+ WD HDD 5TB for Storing or The 512GB + But external SSD for 970 EVO Cache Editing & Export)
Thanks in advance for sharing ur experiences!
I have the 1 TB M1Max and can always recommend going for more internal storage if possible. But both, the 970 and 980 are also incredible for editing. I am working with Multicam 4K timelines with files from my canon eos r / r5c and pretty much never run into disk speed limitations.
@@ChrisSpiegl Just another question, so do u use any of the 1TB storing the raw footage for editing or do you also store all FCPX file and raw footage in an External Hard Disk? and then Transfer in & Out from Internal Hard Disk to External Hard disk?
As currently i am going to Upgrade my M1 Macbook Air to a Macbook Pro, but currently i didnt really use my Internal Hard Disk at all, so i was thinking to save the money going for the lowest 512GB Internal, as there is a huge discount for 16" 24core GPU, 64gb Ram and 512GB, but the 1or2 TB internal Harddisk upgrade is about 800-1,4k Difference, so would like to seek your advice! Thanks alot for looking into my question
Are there nvme enclosures that use USB A, instead of usb c?….
Will work with “SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD with Heatsink 2TB PCIe Gen 4 NVMe M.2 Internal Solid State Hard Drive”
I bought SSD Samsung 980 but I don’t understand what enclosure to purchase. Any recommendations?
@@OKuusava thanks for the smart words but free markets are where the demand meets the supply and finds the best price for both sides. Lovely is how the commies can’t grasp this and always look to steal from productive and give to unproductive.
I have noticed that you have tested Samsung 970 EVO Plus with ACASIS enclosure, I looked at their WEB site and it lists 970 EVO Plus as unsupported. Did you have any issues with that SSD?
In my tests I did not find out why they would say that. For me the drive performed great.
@@ChrisSpiegl Thanks Chris very much for your quick reply. I feel that EVO 970 Plus is sweet spot for price and performance.
@@Hubbycat I found the same.
@@ChrisSpiegl Have you encountered any random disconnects with any combination of enclosure and ssd?
As for the 970 Evo Plus, there are 2 versions. Have read somewhere that the old version has the box horizontal and the new version has the box vertical and this new version performs better.
Thanks.
This from Amazon (North America): The enclosure (ACASIS) does not support Samsung 970 Evo plus SSD
The strange thing is that it worked for me anyways. And very well indeed.
Are the ssd in afps or exfat format?
I tried both and they were close to being identical. However I decided to go with APFS for my long term use NVME because of the Journaling and such. Loosing the ability to simply plug it into other devices, but that's ok cause all my team uses macOS at this point.
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.
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?
Do you have a list of ones that will actually stay connected? Lol.
I'm happily using the ACASIS USB-4 housing and have never had any disconnect issue. Been using it for a few years now.
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
No offense, but this 20 minute video could be a diagram
meh, speak for yourself, I appreciated the handholding as he walked us through everything.
Meh to you…
It helped me so meh to you....
The man is creating free content, which might be helpful to people and even if it isnt "optimal" in your opinnion pushing people down for trying to do something is petty and pathetic.
Ahhhhh and right now the 980 pro is cheaper 😅 just when I thought I was going to go with your decision
I actually also picked up a 980pro when it got cheaper 👍. It's an incredible drive.
Why do you keep looking off camera to your lower right?
Your favorite SSD housing is 139 Dollars? Doesn't make sense
Why?
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.