How to get good speed on an external NVMe SSD

Posted by Function0@reddit | hardware | View on Reddit | 7 comments

I purchased a rinky dink external enclosure for an NVMe M.2 drive and it's operating at much slower speeds than it should. Is this a limitation of the cheapo enclosure, USB spec or the drive? Unfortunately, I don't have any space M.2 slots to test what speed it should achieve while plugged directly into the motherboard.

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MilkyGoatNipples@reddit

1080 pro? I think that may be a fake drive. So no clue what the speed should be.

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mildmr@reddit

Sometimes there are stickers on the NVMe with a number or a model name. With these information we could help better.

But with the 4Tb capacity it should have at least 3-4000Mb/s read and write.

Use a USB 3.2 Enclosure at a USB 3.2 Port and you should get up to 1100 Mb/s transfer rate.

If you buy expensive Thunderbolt 3/4 enclosure and you have such a port you can get up to 4000Mb/s.

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Function0@reddit (OP)

Updated the post!

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