What NVME for basic 10gbps enclosure (just storage, no gaming)

Whatever is cheapest TBH. You might want to avoid QLC if you're likely to hit it with heavy writes.

What capacity are you looking at?
 
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10gbs enclosure are usually pcie3 and will give you about a 1000mbs read and write speed so any m2 with speeds above that should be fine .

Remember to use the cable provided there have been threads on here with drastically reduced speeds by not using the one provided.
 
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No many great deals around currently if you need to buy right now, high end at £100 ish is the Kingston Fury Renegade, great write endurance and total overkill but all you're going to save is £20 by going for a QLC drive like the WD Green SN350 or Crucial P3.
 
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Minstadave said:
No many great deals around currently if you need to buy right now, high end at £100 ish is the Kingston Fury, total overkill but all you're going to save is £20 by going for a QLC drive like the WD Green SN350 or Crucial P3.
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Don't need to buy now, currently have a 990pro in it...which is a waste in it.
 
Would Crucial T3 be suitable for this? I think I bought this last time but returned it because the 990Pro is "better", but for this purpose, is the T3 suitable since I am bottlenecked by the enclosure.

Or WD Blue SN850?
 
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Raymond Lin said:
Would Crucial T3 be suitable for this? I think I bought this last time but returned it because the 990Pro is "better", but for this purpose, is the T3 suitable since I am bottlenecked by the enclosure.

Or WD Blue SN850?
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You mean a Crucial P3 and WD Black if it's SN850? The Blue is the 580 I think.
 
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Whatever is drive is cheapest, I bought Ediloca EN855 Internal NVME SSD 4TB PCIe Gen4 and a SABRENT M.2 NVME Enclosure a couple of months ago to be used as backup storage and it works great.

I did replace the supplied cable with a Type-C USB-C to USB 3.0 Male & USB 2.0 Dual Power Data Y Cable which might limit the transfer speed to 5Gbs (I have not tired this yet on a USB 3.1.2 port), as I am not convinced a single USB port can handle the power of a Gen4 NVME drive and the enclosures PCIe Gen3.0 to USB controller.
 
Also been checking out external enclosures
And nvme drives
The lexar nm790 is one i am considering
Will all depend on black Friday prices though

@RavenLunatic power will depend on the individual
Pc i guess
But I know my usb c and thunderbolt ports
Will definitely provide more than enough power
My front ports have either a 6 pin or 8 pin forgot which
Cable coming from the psu
You would have to read your motherboard manual I guess
Though to be fair I am looking to get 3GB+ read /write from mine
You probably need a little bit less power for lower speeds
 
i have the same requirement, and I have two rule:

1. techpowerup reviews for sustained writes (fill whole drive).

2. be considered to have low-power and good thermal.

anything that can sustain an average of 1.5GB/s for 2TB at storage at <8W is a winner.

www.techpowerup.com

SK hynix Platinum P41 2 TB Review - Faster than Samsung and WD

The SK Hynix P41 offers amazing performance thanks to a new PCI-Express 4.0 compatible controller. In our Hynix Platinum P41 review we find that this drive is faster than Samsung 980 Pro and WD Black SN850. Thanks to an energy efficient design, there is no thermal throttling, even without heatsink.
www.techpowerup.com www.techpowerup.com
 
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PeegeeTips said:
i have the same requirement, and I have two rule:

1. techpowerup reviews for sustained writes (fill whole drive).

2. be considered to have low-power and good thermal.

anything that can sustain an average of 1.5GB/s for 2TB at storage at <8W is a winner.
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You would need a 40gbs enclosure unless I'm mistaken for pcie4 speeds which one do you have or getting?
 
PeegeeTips said:
i have the same requirement, and I have two rule:

1. techpowerup reviews for sustained writes (fill whole drive).

2. be considered to have low-power and good thermal.

anything that can sustain an average of 1.5GB/s for 2TB at storage at <8W is a winner.

www.techpowerup.com

SK hynix Platinum P41 2 TB Review - Faster than Samsung and WD

The SK Hynix P41 offers amazing performance thanks to a new PCI-Express 4.0 compatible controller. In our Hynix Platinum P41 review we find that this drive is faster than Samsung 980 Pro and WD Black SN850. Thanks to an energy efficient design, there is no thermal throttling, even without heatsink.
www.techpowerup.com www.techpowerup.com
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Those 2 criteria don't apply to me.

1 - it will never write constantly from o to 100% full to the brim in 1 sitting.
2 - It won't be plugged in 24/7, will likely be sitting in my travel tech pack.

What you are looking for seems to be for desktop use and I question the first point....what is it that you do that need to sustain writing 2TB size files, everyday constantly, then delete and go again, and delete and go again and delete and go again?
 
I have got 2 40gbps enclosures - ACASIS 40Gbps, these do get hot to touch if running full sustained loads, but I only did that moving files onto them when I first purchased them, hooked upto my Mac Mini.
1 x Addlink 4TB NVME and 1 x SN850X. They are plugged in all the time, backup weekly with each backup up my Time Machine. 10gbps enclosure will be fine for this (I went through about 8 of them and found them slow) but I went with 40 as I wanted to keep them for along time and the fastest speeds I could get - 3000MB/s Write / 2900 Read. I had previously the Crucial P3 and P5, both fine.
I also have a USB 2TB Nano external drive which I use aswell, even that would be fine for your needs and its tiny with a rubber case for travel (none of mine move from under the desk!)
 
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Raymond Lin said:
Those 2 criteria don't apply to me.

1 - it will never write constantly from o to 100% full to the brim in 1 sitting.
2 - It won't be plugged in 24/7, will likely be sitting in my travel tech pack.

What you are looking for seems to be for desktop use and I question the first point....what is it that you do that need to sustain writing 2TB size files, everyday constantly, then delete and go again, and delete and go again and delete and go again?
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My backup method is copying a dismounted encrypted file/drive from main system to backup media. which admitedly, isn't what everyone needs.
I don't have any 24/7 requirement, there is no requirement for everyday constantly. Nor too a great many delete and repeat cycles.

The sustainment requirement is to check the drive transfer speed doesn't fall off a cliff as soon as the SLC buffer is exceeded. i.e. doesn't look great on some 5GB iso read/write benchmark.
The low-power / good thermals is to ensure that it can sustain that speed in a small portable enclosure, without suffering excessive performance throttling from thermal accumulation over copy duration.
 
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