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I was randomly searching through amazon and I seen this.
Regular Price $39.99 (43% savings - $17.05)
SATA & NVME Compatibility:
Only compatible with M Key and B+M connectors Not compatible with B Key Connectors.
M.2 form factor compatible with both SATA and NVME in sizes: 2242/2260/2280.
Thunderbolt 3 compatible
Chipset is Realtek RTL9210
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However, most of these enclosures I've noticed are the side out design.
I went with this enclosure over the other options due to this. Sabrent works better since the top lifts off and there is less potential of damaging the heat pad.
You can find the update firmware for the chipset here:
https://www.sabrent.com/download/ec-snve/
There are newer chipset firmware not from Sabrent, but I haven't tested those out yet. There is a thread on Anandtech forums about various chipsets version firmware and where to download them. It's a long thread, but it gives a lot of details about the RTL9210 chipset and the fixes the firmware versions have made.
https://forums.anandtec
Hope this helps!
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It's a long read but basically all you need to know about the different chipsets and issues as well as firmware versions. Here are the drivers and configs to use for the RT9210(B) https://www.station-drivers.com/i...ang,en-gb/
The bottleneck is the 10 Gbit/s USB 3.2 interface, which is 1250 GByte/s (10000 bits divided by 8). Which in real life is realistically around the 1050 GBs that you mentioned.
You would need an enclosure with a controller that supports a faster standard (20 Gbit/s USB 3.2 2x2 or Thunderbolt which is even faster), but I am not sure such enclosures exist yet.
Naturally, your computer would need to have a port that could handle such speed too -- e.g., Thunderbolt.
BTW, people are very lax about bs vs Bs (as in GBs vs Gbs), but these mean different things:
capital B is bytes
lowercase b is bits
1 byte = 8 bits
1 GBs = 1 Gigabytes/s = 8 Gigabits/s (8 Gbs)
A lot of confusion stems from people using GBs and Gbs, as well as Mbs and MBs interchangeably.
Your speed is not 1050 mbs, it's 1050 MBs.