Easily the best drive enclosures of any type I have ever used. Thank you for your review here. On this and a few other videos, I bought two of these under a brand called Colorii (were they the original creators of this? Was it Hagbis? I think Quiizlabs is yet another downstream copy). Massively impressed with the build quality and attention to detail. The design is fantastic, with beautifully cut CNC curves and anodized aluminum just like my MBP. The indicator light's rounded corners are all perfectly concentric. The illumination across the spatial area of the indicator light is smooth and perfectly even. The rubber feet are solid and grippy and pose no threat of coming off. The soft felt carrying bag included in the box is a delight. Even the cardboard box was finely constructed with the whole mechanism of the air vacuum forcing the inner box of contents to drop very slowly out of the lid, Apple style. Everything about this product is premium, except the price. In any case, they're gorgeous, they run cool, and the ASM2464PD inside goes as fast as it does in any enclosure. On my base model M4 Mac Mini, they each get 3300 MB/s write and 3100 MB/s read with a 2TB SN850x. I'm running them in RAID0 across two Thunderbolt buses and am getting 6100 MB/s write and 5600 MB/s read in that configuration. These will do SPLENDIDLY. Best part? They were $51 each on AliExpress!
Thanks for this video! That enclosure sure gives a high quality impression. Now, I see that the chip you put a cooling pad on said "asmedia" which I assume means the enclosure is using the ASM2464PD chipset. I have an enclosure from Orico with that chipset and I sometimes get an "Disk Not Ejected Properly" notification. It does seem to happen if the drive is connected to the Mac for a long time and if the computer is idle and/or sleeping. Could you perhaps try having the enclosure connected to one of your Macs overnight while the Mac is asleep and then wake it in the morning and see if the drive is still mounted in the MacOS? When I tried this my drive was unexpectedly ejected and the enclosure was also quite hot as if the drive didn't go to sleep properly during the night. Hmm... I hear some suggestions that an enclosure with the Intel JHL7440 Thunderbolt chipset might work better, so I'm thinking about perhaps trying an enclosure with that.
@@Cujobob I'd say that's not correct. I've been using MacOS of ages and discs ejecting randomly hasn't been a thing. Now, sure you'd get that notification if you physically disconnect a drive (be it, for example, unplugging the cable of the hub it's connected to) without ejecting it manually in the OS. But it shouldn't randomly disconnect - that means something is wrong.
Using windows 11, do u guys do this Right-click the drive on which you want to turn disk write caching on or off, and then click Properties. Click the Policies tab. Click to select Better performance. Click to select Enable write caching on the device. Only by enable this, my write speed is bump up from 500Mb/s to 2600MB/s
@ All USB enclosures without build-in SSDs cannot allow firmware updating; Only TB enclosures work. Due to Apple silicon chips and no BootCamp support, all firmware updating can only be done in PC Win. That’s why I still keep a i9-9900K 5 year old PC with TB3 connections.
@ If USB drivers are preferred, getting big brand ones, like Samsung; it offer Driver Dashboard for its USB external SSDs’ firmware updating, but still not for Samsung M2 SSDs installed on 3rd party USB enclosures.
@ TB enclosures allow computers communicate with the M2 SSDs directly via PCI channels, but USB enclosures can only allow computers communicate with the USB controller chips on the enclosures.
For USB external drivers, if the drivers can be disambled and let users take out the SSD drivers for other use, the USB external drivers usually don’t support firmware updating.
Yeah. I also see that Hagibis has this same enclosure. Got confuse who is the original maker or both of then outsource it from the same manufacturer, i dont know😅!
Hagibis states their enclosure doesn't support 8 TB drives. Qwiizlabs states the ES40UR does. AFAIK, both drives use the ASM2464PD chipset, so I don't know why there is a discrepancy. Perhaps Hagibis support has incorrect information for the current firmwares?
Easily the best drive enclosures of any type I have ever used. Thank you for your review here. On this and a few other videos, I bought two of these under a brand called Colorii (were they the original creators of this? Was it Hagbis? I think Quiizlabs is yet another downstream copy).
Massively impressed with the build quality and attention to detail. The design is fantastic, with beautifully cut CNC curves and anodized aluminum just like my MBP. The indicator light's rounded corners are all perfectly concentric. The illumination across the spatial area of the indicator light is smooth and perfectly even. The rubber feet are solid and grippy and pose no threat of coming off. The soft felt carrying bag included in the box is a delight. Even the cardboard box was finely constructed with the whole mechanism of the air vacuum forcing the inner box of contents to drop very slowly out of the lid, Apple style. Everything about this product is premium, except the price.
In any case, they're gorgeous, they run cool, and the ASM2464PD inside goes as fast as it does in any enclosure. On my base model M4 Mac Mini, they each get 3300 MB/s write and 3100 MB/s read with a 2TB SN850x. I'm running them in RAID0 across two Thunderbolt buses and am getting 6100 MB/s write and 5600 MB/s read in that configuration. These will do SPLENDIDLY.
Best part? They were $51 each on AliExpress!
are you able to measure how much they consume during idle?
Just picked up one of these from the brand Colorii and with an SN850X SSD, I got 3500 speeds both read and write on an M4 MacBook Pro.
Tyvm for the vid. Can you report back info about the temps? Speeds are really good but would have liked to know how the temps of the ssd were.
Great Review 👍🏽
Thanks for this video!
That enclosure sure gives a high quality impression. Now, I see that the chip you put a cooling pad on said "asmedia" which I assume means the enclosure is using the ASM2464PD chipset. I have an enclosure from Orico with that chipset and I sometimes get an "Disk Not Ejected Properly" notification. It does seem to happen if the drive is connected to the Mac for a long time and if the computer is idle and/or sleeping. Could you perhaps try having the enclosure connected to one of your Macs overnight while the Mac is asleep and then wake it in the morning and see if the drive is still mounted in the MacOS? When I tried this my drive was unexpectedly ejected and the enclosure was also quite hot as if the drive didn't go to sleep properly during the night. Hmm... I hear some suggestions that an enclosure with the Intel JHL7440 Thunderbolt chipset might work better, so I'm thinking about perhaps trying an enclosure with that.
I tried with another 40 Gbps cable and now the drive didn't eject during the night. Hmm… Maybe just lucky. Will do some more testing.
@@staraffinity How did it go?
@@jooplin Hmm… My reply seems to get deleted. I ended up getting an enclosure with the JHL7440 that has been working fine - no sudden disconnects.
My understanding is that the disc ejection notification is just a Mac OS thing that’s been going on for ages.
@@Cujobob I'd say that's not correct. I've been using MacOS of ages and discs ejecting randomly hasn't been a thing.
Now, sure you'd get that notification if you physically disconnect a drive (be it, for example, unplugging the cable of the hub it's connected to) without ejecting it manually in the OS. But it shouldn't randomly disconnect - that means something is wrong.
Using windows 11, do u guys do this
Right-click the drive on which you want to turn disk write caching on or off, and then click Properties. Click the Policies tab. Click to select Better performance. Click to select Enable write caching on the device.
Only by enable this, my write speed is bump up from 500Mb/s to 2600MB/s
Thank you for the tip!
The problem for this kind of USB enclosures is not allowing firmware updating of M2 SSD.
interesting,, could you expand on this point for the know nothings amongst us please!
@ All USB enclosures without build-in SSDs cannot allow firmware updating; Only TB enclosures work. Due to Apple silicon chips and no BootCamp support, all firmware updating can only be done in PC Win. That’s why I still keep a i9-9900K 5 year old PC with TB3 connections.
@ If USB drivers are preferred, getting big brand ones, like Samsung; it offer Driver Dashboard for its USB external SSDs’ firmware updating, but still not for Samsung M2 SSDs installed on 3rd party USB enclosures.
@ TB enclosures allow computers communicate with the M2 SSDs directly via PCI channels, but USB enclosures can only allow computers communicate with the USB controller chips on the enclosures.
For USB external drivers, if the drivers can be disambled and let users take out the SSD drivers for other use, the USB external drivers usually don’t support firmware updating.
Love it!
Original ... Hagibis 40Gbps USB4 M.2 NVME SSD Enclosure
Yeah. I also see that Hagibis has this same enclosure. Got confuse who is the original maker or both of then outsource it from the same manufacturer, i dont know😅!
both and others just putting their name on a OEM enclosure.
Hagibis states their enclosure doesn't support 8 TB drives. Qwiizlabs states the ES40UR does. AFAIK, both drives use the ASM2464PD chipset, so I don't know why there is a discrepancy. Perhaps Hagibis support has incorrect information for the current firmwares?
@@DClaville who is the OEM?
@@jooplin good question