Ed, Thank you for this video. Your installation experience was similar to mine. In December 2022 I built a similar system for my brother. He has a late 2015 iMac 27" with the soon to be dead 1TB fusion drive. The drive was in a mild failing state along with just 600 MB of free space. I suggested he swap the fusion drive for a 2TB SSD. A Samsung 870 EVO was selected. He had long outgrown his 500MB Time Machine external drive and I suggested he get an external enclosure attached via his Thunderbolt 2 port. I selected the Sabrent twin (or dual) NVME unit and two 2TB NVME SSDs, along with an Apple Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3 adapter so the project could start. I too encountered the problem with the rubber standoffs and managed to cut one in half. I rigged a piece of material that retained the SSD and sealed it up. There were no problems as long term data was written to the Sabrent and everyday data saved from the fusion drive to the new 2TB SSD. There was the problem (at least for me) with the enclosure getting hot during long disk to disk transfers. Absolutely no instructions on how and when to use the foam strips in the sparse documentation, but all is well so far. That being the case, I've suggested to my brother he run the system sans silicone case. One other drawback on the case are the indicator lamps, you can't easily tell when the enclosure is energized with the silicone case in use. Additionally pressing the power button with the case installed is not always a working outcome. I was just happy to see I'm not the only one experiencing problems with this hardware. Thanks for the post.

👏👏👏👏👏👏 very impressive performance! Thank you for the demo

Fantastic video... anyone would think you are a regular user, haha. It was precisely what any of us would go through, except now we will have had you go through it first, and it will be quicker and smoother for all of us. Thanks so much for sticking with this to show how it works in real life. Excellent. Loved seeing the speed. A few seconds for a 25GB file is a dream for anyone's typical workflow. Loved to see that. Your videos make such sense. A couple of questions if you have the time to come back on: How is the Spectre doing? Really liked the size and the size and presentation of that screen. Does the Surface Laptop Studio still live in your rotation, and how does it fare in regular everyday use? Especially against the Spectre 360, which also has a pen and is 14inches? Always love the work you put in. Llllllllllater!!

Good honest video. It's good to see finding solutions to a problem when inserting, instead of just set when it works well.

Didn't know this was possible gonna have to look into these

setting best policy is it impacting any previous data or i can do it any time without any data losses ?

This would’ve been great with the clone function of the EC-SSD2.

I have a mbp 2015 with tb2 can I use it with the apple tb3 to tb2 adapter?

Great that you unpacked and reviewed this enclosure. EDIT: Why didn't you use stick-on thermal pads? About your dilemma: You should have left both rubber grommets in the enclosure. Then insert the SSD drive. Press the SSD drive down, and keep pressing it down. Then put the tip of a small Phillips screw driver in the tiny hole at the top of the rubber grommet. With the screw driver, pull the rubber grommet away from the SSD drive, and let the rubber grommet snap over the SSD drive.

@shehanum

2 жыл бұрын

Can confirm this stated method. I was thrown off by the instructions stating that they were magnetic pins, as opposed to the rubber pins that are provided. Seeing the cam lock mechanism in the single drive enclosures, I wonder why they changed the tool free mechanism; likely cost. Other than the clumsy install, the enclosure itself is high quality.

@desantisphotography

Жыл бұрын

Same. Exactly how I installed mine with no issues.

Tool free something doesn’t mean trouble free. I have some Orico M.2 USB enclosures. One uses a rubber grommet like your enclosure and is also quite difficult to use. Another one (it has the exact same type number) use a small plastic piece. It looks like a door handle, first push it in the hole in the enclosure, next drop in the SSD, then turn the plastic piece to cover the SSD and hold it in place. Pushing the plastic piece into the enclosure hole isn’t easy, but after that it works great. I like the metal cases the Sabrent uses as packaging material for their SSDs. It looks premium.

Hi, is that sabrent rocket nvme 4.0 still good for 4K editing with a external enclosure?

I have laptop with an USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C™ with Thunderbolt™ 3 (40 Gb/s) so i need a Thunderbolt cable and enclosure that suports that right? my objective is to have an external storage for next gen games with a 3GB/s speed

You install the rubber grommet first, then push it away from the NVMe as you lower it, then push it toward the NVMe to lock it in place.

Does this need the DC power when using thunderbolt 3 or 4 as it has 100w power deliver.

Oh and another option, that may not be the fastest, is to look for a used "Enterprise" ssd or enclosure. I say Enterprise as a data center one, is designed for a more extreme environment - heat, vibration, time in service - and possible number of reads/writes. Sometimes you can pick up an item that originally cost thousands for only a few hundred or less than a hundred, it all depends on it's original specs and data transfer speeds.

Can you update the drives firmware using this?

Ill have to purchase one. On IT Business and from to time we need to backup DB and this seems to be the best solution regarding time saving.

@TheDigitalDigest

3 жыл бұрын

it is the only enclosure of its kind right now.

@carlosmorales7548

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDigitalDigest yeah seems that way. Once you deal with getting the ssd on place you good cause looked that could take some time.

Do I understand correctly that the power brick is about the same size as the enclosure? Affects real portability, I think.

I like Sabrent products, I think they are well constructed and have a high quality build. Wow, no pesky tiny screws to loose or little screw drivers to loose. More things should be made like this. BHow come while you were seating your drives, you were not cursing? I would have let go of a few four letter words, at least a few. I had the same issue, and thought I'd break my card. I just pushed very had on the rubber spot and it went in. Although my case was different. But on my laptop...........oh boy, the holding screw was the smallest screw I ever saw and of course I used the wrong tip on my screw driver and the screw flipped inside my pc. ha ha ha. One tip on the screw driver, loosened the case, and one different tip on the screw drivers loosened the holding screw on the ssd. Both of them looked basically the same - way too small for practical work. I like the little swing out lever, some ssd's have. move it to the side, insert your ssd, move it back and you are done.

As some said very good and honest video. But you missed a key feature of the dual SSD enclosure. The Raid feature that the enclosure provides. Raid 0 for speed, Raid 1 safer option, Jbod for space maximisation. That is a big miss as this is main reason to have two SSDs in one enclosure. You need for the Raids SSDs with the same size, so in your case would have not worked anyway.

Nice review. Can you tell if if this enclosure has fans and if they are loud or not. Thanks so much

@DavidJao

Ай бұрын

Fanless design.

Does it work with non-sabrent ssd? How will the performance differ?

@TheDigitalDigest

3 жыл бұрын

yes

Hi there! Does this works by bus power only? Without the dc adapter? Thank you!

@TheDigitalDigest

2 жыл бұрын

no

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheDigitalDigest thanks for the answer, and damn…. Can’t believe a 2 NVMe ssd can’t be powered by the BUS

Great video I feel your pain LOL

I m looking all over for months. IS there a MAX thunderbolt 3 (or close by) throughput for an external enclosure? There's always a 1500mb or 2000mb or 2500 mb...WHERE isa 3700 - 3800 - 3900 - 4000mb troughput ??? ?? ??? ??? ???

@DavidJao

Ай бұрын

A dual NVMe enclosure will always have to split the bandwidth between the two drives so you can't get full speed from a single drive with a dual enclosure.

Wow price shot up quick! Amazon listing is $250.00 instead of $150.00 as stated.

@TheDigitalDigest

3 жыл бұрын

my mistake...it was always $250.The dual enclosure for cloning that is not TB3 capable is $120.

Dual or DOOWL

can I used gen 4 ssd on this ?

@DavidJao

Ай бұрын

It's compatible with Gen 4 but won't give you full Gen 4 speed.

Getting those drives in was a nightmare. Thank you for the great product Sabrent, but you can do better with instructions.

Mine gets extremely hot with 2 4tb NVME in raid 0

is possible do some RAID?

@DavidJao

Ай бұрын

Software RAID works just fine.

So basically either you got a bad unit, to you are making a rare error, or it's still in beta. I should not be this hard. You should contact Sabrent and let them know about installation issue, because I am not buying it for my niece. Thanks for the video, other will have cut the video and hide the issue to protect the vendor.

That stupid hold down pin thing just cost them a sale, ridiculous. Would have been so easy to put a swing over rotating holder.

benchmark starts here 25:23

@miekwavesoundlab

3 жыл бұрын

hero!

$150 i could buy two nvme , Lol I would be done in less than a minute with a magnetic screw driver screws and washer ,so only Sabrent has the thunderbolt Intel liscence agreement and did they send a usb C to A cable in case you only have a usb 3.1 Gen 2 10 Gb/s capable connector, you need a camera with a separate remote zoom system

@DavidJao

Ай бұрын

This does NOT WORK with a USB A to C cable. It is a Thunderbolt only enclosure.

That is a huge power brick. why can't they just use a mobile phone charger for power.

After watching you struggle to install the drive, I’ll be looking for another solution. Lol

@TheDigitalDigest

2 жыл бұрын

it's not that difficult...it was my first time.

Great Review Brother 😃👍✔❤ Regards from Europe from my channel 👍😃

Anyone who buys one of these without a fan built in is wasting their money. These overheat, shutdown Windows file explorer and have been replaced by a better design months ago. The soft foam heat sinks included with thses are not enough for heat dispersion for the larger SSD's under hard prolonged use.

hate fact it needs DC

As soon as I saw the power cord I got turn off by the product !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I lost interest the INSTANT YOU SHOWED THE POWER BRICK! You stating that the 'brick' was not a big deal made me feel you weren't being totally truthful about your feelings; of course it's a BIG deal! I don't believe users would be happy with such a brick.

@TheDigitalDigest

2 жыл бұрын

Do you know of a stand alone NVMe Cloning device that doesn't require power?

toolfree and it's harder than just using screws lol what joke

Who df needs 8 tb nvme storage

You should have edited the video to make it 15 minutes shorter.