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Probably overthinking the whole bridge/chipset thing but I want whatever enclosure I get to be fully compatible with Mac, Linux, and Windows even if it costs a little more or if its not on sale. I heard about some enclosures even with the ASM 1153E having issues with Linux/Mac and not supporting certain features I want like UASP support and support for SMART/TRIM. Anyone who can give some provide some advice on this would help me out big time considering I've looked at many options and always seem to find conflicting information about whats the best enclosure for a 2.5" hard drive.
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Probably overthinking the whole bridge/chipset thing but I want whatever enclosure I get to be fully compatible with Mac, Linux, and Windows even if it costs a little more or if its not on sale. I heard about some enclosures even with the ASM 1153E having issues with Linux/Mac and not supporting certain features I want like UASP support and support for SMART/TRIM. Anyone who can give some provide some advice on this would help me out big time considering I've looked at many options and always seem to find conflicting information about whats the best enclosure for a 2.5" hard drive.
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Probably overthinking the whole bridge/chipset thing but I want whatever enclosure I get to be fully compatible with Mac, Linux, and Windows even if it costs a little more or if its not on sale. I heard about some enclosures even with the ASM 1153E having issues with Linux/Mac and not supporting certain features I want like UASP support and support for SMART/TRIM. Anyone who can give some provide some advice on this would help me out big time considering I've looked at many options and always seem to find conflicting information about whats the best enclosure for a 2.5" hard drive.
This was my conclusion when I wasted time hunting a couple months ago:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CQD6M5B/
Same here. Didn't need it yet and was just keeping it in the cart waiting for it to go on sale again.
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From a MacOS comparability perspective, these work great! I migrated my iMac from an internal Fusion drive to an external SSD inside the metallic version of the UGreen enclosure. Good speeds. No issues so far (about 2 months).
The other thing to figure out is whether the FireWire drives you have are SATA or not. They would need to be SATA drives for these enclosures to work.
Also, are they 2.5" or 3.5" drives? 3.5" won't fit in the enclosures listed in this deal. I believe UGreen has 3.5" enclosures available though.
Probably overthinking the whole bridge/chipset thing but I want whatever enclosure I get to be fully compatible with Mac, Linux, and Windows even if it costs a little more or if its not on sale. I heard about some enclosures even with the ASM 1153E having issues with Linux/Mac and not supporting certain features I want like UASP support and support for SMART/TRIM. Anyone who can give some provide some advice on this would help me out big time considering I've looked at many options and always seem to find conflicting information about whats the best enclosure for a 2.5" hard drive.
I can tell you this I bought two USB micro enclosures with crappy chipset and XSX & Xbone won't communicate with them. I ordered this the other day...
Is it possible you have the power management in low energy mode? I had to switch my Xbox to performance mode to see and format a SSD drive/enclosure. After that, I went back to lower energy mode and it worked perfectly.