NVME EXTERNAL GPU ENCLOSURE PORTABLE

Differences might start to appear in the long-term robocopy benchmarks due to the difference in the thermal behavior. Given that the platform for the product is the same as the MyDigitalSSD M2X, it is likely that the benchmark numbers for quick tests are going to be the same. However, we have opted to do things differently with the Plugable USBC-NVME.

NVME EXTERNAL GPU ENCLOSURE PORTABLE

M.2 2260 / 2280 NVMe SSD enclosure with high-speed Thunderbolt 3 interfaceДIY high-performance, compact, and sturdy portable SSDДҐ0 cm Thunderbolt 3 40 Gbps Type-C to Type-CДЄll the storage bridge review numbers recorded in this page for units other than the Plugable USBC-NVME were obtained using our standard Skylake-based testbed hardware. M.2 2230 / 2242 / 2260 / 2280 NVMe SSD tool-free enclosureДIY high-performance, compact, and sturdy portable SSD with a USB flash drive-like form-factor The table below presents the detailed specifications and miscellaneous aspects of the units and how they compare.Д¬omparative Storage Bridges Configurations Note that only the MyDigitalSSD M2X belongs to the same specific category as the Plugable USBC-NVME. In the rest of this review, we compare the Plugable USBC-NVME with a host of other storage bridges (including the TEKQ Rapide Thunderbolt 3 enclosure). Note that this is the same SSD that was used to evaluate the MyDigitalSSD M2X enclosure. We put in a MyDigitalSSD SBX 1TB PCIe 3.0 x2 NVMe SSD for performance evaluation. The installed M.2 SSD is held in place by the aforementioned rubber peg. The SSD can be installed in a tool-free manner since the casing is fastened to the bridge-chip-bearing frame by a spring-loading mechanism.

Plugable also supplies three thermal pads, and rubber pegs (one for each supported M.2 SSD size). The aluminum enclosure comes with two 25cm cables - a Type-C to Type-C, and a Type-C to Type-A.

The Plugable USBC-NVME enclosure we are looking at today is also based on the same bridge chip. We have already reviewed the MyDigitalSSD M2X M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure based on the JMicron JMS583 bridge. Bridges with this feature were introduced by JMicron and ASMedia at Computex 2018. In order to consistently take advantage of the interface across a variety of workloads, it is necessary to place a PCIe 3.0 x2 or better NVMe SSD behind the USB interface. However, it depends heavily on the workload type.

The second category can come close to saturating the USB 3.1 Gen 2 interface.

The first category is still bottlenecked by the SATA interface, and typically delivers 500 - 550 MBps of throughput. High-performance bus-powered USB 3.1 Gen 2 storage devices have traditionally belonged to one of two categories - a SATA SSD behind a USB - SATA bridge, or, a couple of SATA SSDs behind a USB-to-dual-SATA RAID bridge. Today, we look at Plugable's USBC-NVME NVMe SSD enclosure that bridges a PCIe NVMe device (M.2 2280 or smaller) to a USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C interface. In this context, high-speed USB 3.1 Gen 2 storage bridges are interesting to analyze. It is available across systems based on chipsets from multiple vendors. While Thunderbolt 3 remains a premium Intel-only interface for now, USB 3.1 Gen 2 has emerged as a mass-market high-performance alternative. These may range from low-performance flash drives with an USB interface to full-blown RAID towers interfacing over high-performance links such as Thunderbolt 3. Internal ones may enable different I/O ports in a motherboard, while external ones are responsible for a variety of direct-attached storage units. Storage bridges are an indispensable part of today's computing ecosystem.

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