@4:51 "This is the fastest SSD or NVMe on the planet, right now." For bursts of speed, perhaps. But for heavy writing jobs, it will come not win a gold, silver, or bronze medal. SSDs hold their data in NAND flash cells. Those cells are (from fastest to slowest) SLC, MLC, TLC, and QLC. The above is also from most expensive to least expensive. In order to claim very fast speeds, a lot of SSDs will comprise themselves of approximately 10% MLC (or a handful might be 10% SLC). When data is written to the SSD, it will initially go to the MLC NAND cells. So it will be very fast. When the drive is not busy (and for most people, that is most of the time), the drive will move the data from the MLC cells to the QLC cells. The user never sees that happening. But what if you write a few hundred GB of data to the drive, without rest? That is when you will encounter the other 90% of the drive's slower NAND cells. The nonstop writing will fill the SLC (or MLC) cells (also considered cache), and when those fast cells are full, the drive will have no choice but to write to the slower cells. The speed will drop like a brick. You might go from 7,000 MB/s to 35 MB/s (yes, really). I do not know how much of a performance hit the Sabrent SSD (shown at 4:41) will have. But that SSD is not known for performing well for heavy writing jobs (like Chia crypto mining, which hammers the drive 24/7/365). Nearly all (supposedly) fast SSDs are sprinters. Very few are marathon runners. If you want a fast NVMe drive that will not slow down (or will have a minimal decrease in speed after the cache is filled), then one of the following three NVMe drives are the top consumer level NVMe drives available (in no particular order): -- Samsung 990 Pro (the 980 Pro is also in this league, if you can find one). -- Western Digital Black SN850X. -- SK hynix Platinum P41. Check the model numbers carefully; that they exactly match the above (similar model numbers exist for some that are not at the same performance level). Within any model line, the higher the capacity, the better its performance should be (even if only slightly better). That is because the SSD will have more NAND cells, and the drive's controller can read and write data to more locations, simultaneously. Also, higher capacity drives will likely have more of the faster NAND cells, as a percentage of all of its NAND cells. The Sabrent SSD at 4:51 is a great choice, if you will not exceed the drive's cache (which is 99.9% of us). Otherwise, go with one of the models I listed above. How much cache do each of the drives have? That is hard to find. The manufacturers do not publish that information. You could run a job that writes nonstop to the drive, and see when the drive slows down. Or, find a review where they did such a test. Few, if any, reviews do such a test. Few people need the entire drive to perform at (or near) top speed. All of those benchmarking tests that you see write only a few GB of data. That will always hit the fast NAND cells. That will never test the slower NAND cells on the drive. Run the same test with 500 GB of data (or half of whatever the drive's capacity is), and come back the next day. For most drives (even the ones advertising 7,000 MB/s), you will likely see test results at, perhaps, 20% of their advertised speed.
cool video dos show that your wasting your money on really fast drives when type c limits you no matter what , best option for top speeds on an external is get the fastest drive and a thunderbolt case that handels your version of thunderbolt as well and make sure its a powered case and its controller can also handel the fastest drive which in the end its going to cost you a boat load of cash but if you want it youll pay for ., take care keep the good videos comming
Does that (10gbps Sabrent) enclosure have any issues due to it's very slim profile and most importantly with double sided SSD? Also how does it hold up against long duration work? Like keeping it connected 24/7 or few days at a time?
mine started random disconnecting, even with the new firmware update released 2023, random disconcerting, makes the unit useless. sebrent will not reply to email support.
Apart from the different case, what is the difference between the small Sabrent case and the other more ''luxurious'' version? Will the performance, reliability or durability be different?
Hi thank you for this Review, i have the sabrent the fist one in the review and the speed go down suddenly even slow than a normal hardiks 2.5 inch (70mb/s) did you know why this problem should i chane the cable ? thank you
he did say it would transfer heat much faster, if you intend it to be a permanent drive, it's probably better to. if you're swapping drives, not so much.
ı am gonna buy this enclosure but I don't want to make the mistake of buying a much faster ssd to put it in since i won't be using the speed due to enclosure any recommendations for a budget ssd (nvme) that will work well with this one.
I have no idea what I'm looking at and it's function. All this computer terminology. Lamens terns what the heck are these for. If I'm buying a laptop and this is an add on, what exactly do I need it for. What's it function 🤷♀️
Honestly if you don’t know what this is or can’t understand the terminology then it’s probably not a product you should need to buy. This video isn’t really geared toward being an introductory tutorial. I forgot to answer your question. This is an external adapter for an M.2 drive which means you don’t need to plug it directly into your motherboard. I use this in case I need to access a random M.2 or mostly when I want to clone my main OS which is on M.2.
good question, I don't have an XP system to test with unfortunately. though you should be able to plug the xp system into a switch and copy over a network cable too.
yes, I have an Samsung Evo pro 980 1tb in mine and it works fine, there's no point though, it's no faster than a budget NVME drive though, as a limitation of the USBC bandwidth, I got one as it will end up in my system at a later date.
