Although I can’t personally confirm this I just received the following statement from ACASIS: “due to some customer feedback regarding fan noise issues after the product's release, our product department has made improvements. Any units purchased since May 15th are the improved version with reduced fan noise.”
I checked mine today. I can clearly hear the fan but it was not very loud. Bought it at the Acasis store in China. I send them a message to ask if I have the new version of the casing. Will post the answer. Does anyone know how to find out the production date / version?
I just recently purchased this device and had similar drive speed issues using the same Crucial P3 drive you did. I was confused as to why but not really concerned because I don't have a need to have a really fast drive in it since all I use it for is to store drivers and other downloads. I mainly bought it for the 2 DP 1.4 ports since the Intel NUC X15 Laptop only has one HDMI output and the TB port for display output .On a whim I checked the TB 4 driver version and found it was using driver version 1.41.1193. I saw that Intel had updated the driver pack for the NUC X15 laptop kit . I uninstalled the TB software and reinstalled the newer version 1.41.1340. Retested the drive and I am now getting consistent 2900 MB/s read and 2400 MB/s writes vs 2400 MB/s reads and 500 MB/s writes using the old driver. For reference I have another P3 installed on the PC's and it gets 3400 MB/s read 3000 MB/s write. I am more than happy with an external drive getting around 2500 MB/s read and writes.
7:38 Regarding the reading of only 606Mb/s, it should be a computer setting problem. The solution was to go to Device Manager>Disk Drive>select drive>Properties>Policies>turn on write cache.You can try😉
Everything good until active cooling noise level I will continue to look for same tech capabilities with passive cooling My current solution is to have 3 devices
This seems like it attempted to replicate Plugable's TB4 docking station, and fell short. Getting that dual 4k via 2x DP out in a smaller, portable package is a great option to have on the market for half the price though. You _must_ have something like this in order to run Dual 4K externals on M1 Macs.
Losing the RJ45 was a stupid idea, I carry these portable hubs so I wont have to carry a second RJ45 dongle. now not only do I lose ports, I have to carry yet another dongle I didn't have to carry. nice idea, but I'll stick to the previous model if I had to buy one.
Did you have write caching enabled on the drive when running the benchmarks? That can impact write speeds on removable drives, trading write speed for the risk of corruption if the connection drops during writes.
Hey thanks for the great review! What was the piece of tape to disconnect the active power? Have you run it very long with the tape? I'm in Canada and have an older model w/o the newer fan. I don't wanna fry my NVME.
Weren't the write speeds so low because Windows tends to configure external USB drives for "Quick Removal" mode instead of "Better Performance" in Device Manager?
I have been looking for a device like this. The fan makes it a no go from me. Given the extremly unreasonable pricing of upgrade of storage from Apple it is strange that there is not more Thunderbolt hub solutions.
The fact that just a dock can cost as much as 20-30% of a laptop seems wild to me. Many of them use outdated ports and still charge huge premiums, added gripe is most of them can't run all connections at their best possible speeds ( which is partly the reason why one buy them duh)
Ya, the power thing had me baffled. I also discovered that if the Hub is connected to the supplemental power first, the TB3 connection won't initialize until you unplug the power cable.
@ElevatedSystems I was asking around for a powered nvme enclosure and hoping the future will have them. The idea being that I want to connect a nvme enclosure to my S23 Ultra and copy files for safekeeping. What we have in South Africa are many enclosures supporting NVME 3 but when writing files when it gets to 1.5GB the drive disconnects from the phone and so many issues pursue. As someone that went to another country on holiday, I didn't want to take along many adaptors. What I did want to do was take my phone and an external 2.5" drive that can be powered by connecting it to my phone. Sadly the NVME breaks as soon as it's copied the data in writing. I think it's drawing too much power. Now the NVME was a 3.3V perhaps 3A which I think was too much power for my phone to provide to power the enclosure with its nvme drive. Curious to know if you have ever been able to have an nvme enclosure drive work with a mobile phone and copy across data more than the 1.5GB?
Putting the fan base the other way around will disengage it since its not getting any power. I only turn it back the right way when i need to copy big files which is never. problem solved.
@@ElevatedSystems I guess a small piece of electrical tape on that spot couldn't hurt. in any case I think its very convenient to use the case direction as an on/off switch for the fan.
