Internal or External does it matter now?

nlel1975 said:
When I plugged my USB4 NVMe enclosure into one of the USB4 ports on my motherboard nothing showed up, I had it formatted as exFat I think. Didn't spend too much time troubleshooting it as it's permanently connected to my Mac mini m4 as the boot drive.
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Well I just connected it again to one of the motherboards USB4 ports to see if it was detected in the BIOS or in Windows disc management. It showed up in neither nor the Thunderbolt control centre.

Then I attached my USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 (20 Gbps) drive into the USB4 port and it was detected but only ran at half speed as it only runs at 10 Gbps in a Thunderbolt 4/USB4 port. I had the same issue when I connected it to my Mac mini M4 Thunderbolt 4 port.

In the USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 port it runs at full speed. I only have one of those and two USB4 ports. My motherboard is the ASUS ProArt X670E-CREATOR WIFI.
 
Well just pressed buy now
So will find out what the corsair EX400U
Can do tomorrow afternoon or evening

Got 5 x m2 nvme drives
So shouldn't be any issues testing some
Real life file transfers
Benchmarks are one thing
But real life usage is more important
The fact it's magnetic will also come in handy
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
Well just pressed buy now
So will find out what the corsair EX400U
Can do tomorrow afternoon or evening
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Will be interesting to see if it works on your motherboards USB4 ports, you’ve got an ASUS motherboard like me. Maybe my USB4 NVMe enclosure is not compatible with my motherboards USB4 ports, although it works fine with my Macs Thunderbolt 4 ports.

The ports do work with my USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 drive so it proves they are working.
 
nlel1975 said:
Will be interesting to see if it works on your motherboards USB4 ports, you’ve got an ASUS motherboard like me. Maybe my USB4 NVMe enclosure is not compatible with my motherboards USB4 ports, although it works fine with my Macs Thunderbolt 4 ports.

The ports do work with my USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 drive so it proves they are working.
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Yeah you would expect nvme usb4 enclosure
To work fine on any usb4 port
But usb is such a confusing mess
Nothing would surprise me
I will definitely check if any drivers updates available
For whatever controls the usb4 ports on my motherboard though

That's one of the reasons I just got the corsair
Read don't know how many usb4 nvme enclosure reviews
That it gave me a headache
Would have been a better path for future upgrades
Just put a bigger nvme in there
But some had a maximum tb rating
Then some people saying this works fine
While others said it didn't etc
 
nlel1975 said:
Will be interesting to see if it works on your motherboards USB4 ports, you’ve got an ASUS motherboard like me. Maybe my USB4 NVMe enclosure is not compatible with my motherboards USB4 ports, although it works fine with my Macs Thunderbolt 4 ports.

The ports do work with my USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 drive so it proves they are working.
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Very quick initial test of ex400u
Formatted as it arrived in exfat
Read 3224 MBs
Write 2564MBs
In crystal diskmark on pc (windows 11)

Not sure why not getting full speed
Tried in atto as well
And formatted to ntfs still Similar speed

Will have to try again tomorrow night now
Maybe it needs write cache enabled or disabled

Or it's something to do with all the
Software I have installed
Maybe even a driver issue


Couldn't get amorphous disk test to run
On her ipad
Just says not compatible
3rd gen ipad pro i think it said
 
nlel1975 said:
Thanks for the update at least it works.
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It does
Not exactly slow
But there's some speed left somewhere
Quite likely it's a windows issue
One way or another

Included cables very thick
Feels good quality
Long enough to reach somewhere I can
Attach the drive to the case
The magnets got some decent strength to it
If anything a shorter cable would be better
If attaching to a phone using mag safe case
Though I guess one end
Would probably need a 90 degree connector
If was shorter
To avoid putting to much bend/stress on the
Phone connector
 
At the end of the day it’s a bit faster than my NVMe enclosure, is nice and small and won’t have any heat issues, and works with your motherboards Thunderbolt ports. What more could you ask for?
 
I found it very tricky on my machines mostly Windows, to get consistent speeds from my external drives. My machines has a mix of USB 3.1/3.2 type A or C but which ones have a shared controller? Then which SSDs have decent cache or not. Bit fed up with it to be honest. I move a lot of media around and the difference is can be minutes or hours if you get a slow connection. Sometimes it's the cable.
 
What usb ports have you got your motherboard to use?

And as people have alluded to already in this thread, direct storage isn’t a must have just yet
 
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