THE BEST & Fastest NVMe SSD Enclosure? | ACASIS Thunderbolt 4 & HUB NVMe Accessories

Checking out these very interesting NVMe enclosures. Are they PERFECT for MAC STUDIO and laptops?
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0:00 Intro
0:30 Artlist Sponsored Segment
1:13 10-in-1 USB-C Hub Overview
2:43 What NVMe are we using?
3:40 Setting up the SSD
4:02 Speed Test inside the HUB Enclosure
4:50 BEST SSDs for the Enclosure
5:24 the USB 4 overview
5:52 The HUB DESIGN flaw
6:45 Thermal PAD Installation
7:30 USB 4 Enclosure SPEEDTEST
8:23 USB 4 Concluding Thoughts
9:15 THERMAL PAD Flaw
10:20 Speedtest in Windows

[@aomar6311]

Wow finally someone recognizing this super useful ssd enclosure / hub !!! Definitely subscribing

[@j340_official]

Acasis is neither thunderbolt 4 nor usb4 it is using titan ridge/tahini creek thunderbolt 3. It works well I have 3 of their enclosures. But just wanted to point it out that they’re not using a usb4 or thunderbolt 4 chip. Not that it matters as performance is amazing. They also have a usb3.2 gen 2 chip for connecting to a non thunderbolt USB port.

[@thatduckieYT]

Links?

[@alittlebitgone]

Thunderbolt 4 isn't any faster than Thunderbolt 3 so it doesn't much matter.

[@j340_official]

@@alittlebitgone False. Thunderbolt 3 has a minimum of 16 Gbps, USB4 has a minimum of 20 Gbps. Thunderbolt 4 is guaranteed to be 40 Gbps. Yes All 3 protocols have the same max speed... but TB3 and USB4 have lower minimum speeds.

[@j340_official]

@John Doe usb4 tb3 and tb4 are different words for a reason. Try to be precise.

[@j340_official]

@@thatduckieYT I have the acasis and it has a titan ridge-based controller inside. That is *not* usb4.

[@Visionary4787]

Wow, this is quality content. Obviously this is something ive wanted to test. but watching you do it saves me lots of money and time, and now I know what I want. Thank you!

[@skesinis]

Great video! I own a Sabrent EC-T3DN Thunderbolt 3 enclosure for 2 NVMe SSDs. I’ve put there a pair of 2TB Seagate Firecuda 510 (PCIe Gen3) that I had in my older MacBooks, and I’m using it in RAID 0. The enclosure is reaching about 2800MB/s write and 2200MB/s read in RAID 0 or 1, but it caps at 1500MB/s on each individual drive. It looks like the NVMe controller is splitting 2 PCIe lanes per drive and that’s why it’s limited to that speed in individual drives setup , but in any RAID configuration is using all 4 PCIe lanes. Each drive individually is much faster than that, with 3450MB/s R/W but for an external enclosure, I’m pretty happy with the current results. One more thing about the drives, even though they’re a bit older, they have a 2600TBW, so I’m not so concerned in using them in RAID 0, and I’m also backing them up on my NAS regularly.

[@KeyIntelMedia]

hows this working now? Any further updates?

[@Avoozlx]

Thanks for a good review and actually going into the issue of heat dissipation.

[@danewesterdahl3451]

I have the 10 in 1 and find it is really good and versatile. Fast, does run warm--but not a problem. I find the micro sd reader very useful and the usb ports on top pretty useful. Great way to deal with drone files. It would be nice to have the same enclosure with usb 4--may be someday, but would buy again without hesitation.

[@danewesterdahl3451]

Oh, and my heat transfer tape does actually work just fine. I opened it up just now and the tape was stuck to both the nvme and the top of housing. It peeled away when I opened.

[@Pedr4m]

I bought the Acasis USB 4 NVMe enclosure last year and put an 8tb sabrent drive in it. When I started copying large files to it in MacOS it kept disconnecting itself, and when I contacted their support they told me that 8tb is not supported because it draws too much power. That was never mentioned anywhere in their Amazon listing. Needless to say that I returned it. I then bought an OWC NVMe enclosure and had zero problems. I would recommend that people stay away from this enclosure.

[@Pedr4m]

@Lucian M. This was on a Mac Pro (cheese grater) with six thunderbolt 3 ports and it was the only thing plugged in, so I don't think there was any interference. They may have released a newer revision to deal with 8tb drives, but the one in this review looked exactly the same as the one I bought and returned, down to the two thermal pads.

[@squirtmph]

Thanks for mentioning.... What component do you happen to suggest around 8TB. Only needed for storage If you don't mind to share hardware has been working out for you!!!

[@marcusbarnes5929]

What owc enclosure worked with the 8TB?

[@yenjun0204]

If you are saying using "OWC Envoy Express" as NVME external enclosure, look for the spec carefully. OWC one does not run full performance, and that's why it can limit the power consumption for 8TB drives.

[@tavaroevanis8744]

Regarding heat dissipation, would it help to add a layer of thermal paste between the enclosure wall and the thermal pad? Or is thermal paste only effective for metal-on-metal contact?

[@owenptaylor]

Great video as always! What track are you using for the background music? I kind of want to jam out to it! 😎

[@HomesickMac]

I’ve got me a Sabrent XTRM-Q 1TB which is an enclosure with built in SSD, bought it with my M1 MacMini (512GB SSD). The initial idea was to edit off of it in FinalCut Pro. The speeds I’m getting are 1200 Write and 2500 Read. Wasn’t very smooth there so I ended up using it as fast storage, but I freed up lots of space on the internal SSD. That’s great speeds all the way through. And yes, when I started using the Sabrent it had only that FCPX project on it so plenty of space for all rendering, my project grow to some 300GB while editing, maybe sometimes 400GB but still. My FCPX projects have usually up to 2 camera footage, 4K, I might add titles by the best manufacturers like Motion FX, Leno FX etc, but all this will run smoothly only from internal drive. I’m about to get the Mac Studio Max 64GB and I’ll simply opt for the 2TB right from the start. No mtter how fast all those external stuff can be, I’ve learned they’ll never be able to compete with the internal drives. Thanks for a good video, subbed now, like your other content as well.

[@JosephMyLife]

That second one is awesome, i need that!

[@YoureNowOnTV]

Thanks for making this video. 😀👍 Would you still recommend the MSI Spatium series for use with a Mac Studio? (The MSI Spatium m461 looks like a killer price and a TBW of up to 3300)

[@BenleGentil]

I own the Acasis hub, bought it to expend my iPad pro - Love it! awesome hardware

[@rzkarimi]

I have both iPad Pro and the 10-1 hub. What speeds do you get with it on nvme?

[@BenleGentil]

@@rzkarimi I don't know how you would test that on the iPad. At the moment I have a evo 970pro inside so it should be fairly close to max speed but I know that it caps before PCIE4s speed

[@miltona891]

@@BenleGentil hey when using this with a iPad what are you able to save on it? Thank u

[@BenleGentil]

@@miltona891 Pretty much any kind of files that don't live in an app

[@robertcrain9849]

If you copy 1tb of data does it throttle the copy speeds? If so what does it slow down to?

[@ivo4357]

I have the HUB (connected to a Mac Mini M2 Pro), but I put a Gen3 NVMe in it (4tb Crucial P3) as the HUB can't handle the read/write speed the Gen4 offers. I also connected a Crucial X8 4tb (rated for 1050MB/s) to the HUB, and it works great. I'm only using these drives for general media storage though ('only' 10gbps). I do some music production (amateur at best) and I own A LOT of massive instrument libraries. Although the speed the HUB offers is already very decent, I'm planning to get this Thunderbolt 4 enclosure and put a 4tb Gen4 NVMe in it. If this results in the massive speed boost I expect it to, I will get 1 or 2 more enclosures to put my expanding library collection on.

[@Jokemeister1]

Is that testing even valid for sustained read/write. Surely you need bigger files to ensure cache is filled.

[@cptmainwaring]

I want an enclosure which will accommodate an WD Black 2tb NVME which has a heatsink. This makes it about 7mm deep. Any recommendations?

[@atharnadeemshaik2000]

Hi bro ..i have hp pavilion laptop with 1tb hdd...my laptop supports only sata slot and should i go for sata internal ssd or should i go for external ssd or should i buy internal nvme ssd and enclosure ..my laptop has one usb 3.0 port... Does connecting nvme ssd with enclosure with 3.0 usb is faster than internal sata ssd?

[@vasiovasio]

Objective review! Thank you!

[@khanscombe619]

Are the Tb4 backgrounds compatible on Mac Tb1&2 or PC USB-3.1? Using Hynix Platinun P41 for media

[@yaboobaker]

I put the thermal pad under the m2. however I formatted to expat and it works on my Mac but my samsung zgold3 does not recognise it. what can I do ? any help would be appreciated

[@mikec2660]

if you format the drive to APFS would you get faster readings ?

[@hwj1822]

Have my Mac Studio a couple of days now, 2 TB 64GB :) Its a fantastical peace of technic for my Logic DAW and UA-Arrow. My question is, what is this tool, that shows your uptime and other things graphicaly? Can't find any information of this... Thanks for all, greets from Germany :)

[@theTechNotice]

It's an app called iStatistica PRO, you can find it in app store. :)

[@giuseppefedele4993]

Is it normal for it to heat up so much? I changed the thermal pad to no avail plus if I try to open the case the pad is detached from the nvme and attached to the lid. Thank you

[@DagMansson]

Thanks for another very helpful video! Do you have any idea whether or not a Kingston KC3000 2tb would work well in the Thunderbolt enclosure?

[@theTechNotice]

It would work very well, but you're paying a lot for too much spec. I'd try something like silicon power US70 2TB model for that, cheaper but still gen4 nvme speeds.

[@DagMansson]

@@theTechNotice I was eager and already ordered it before I saw your reply. But I'm curious to try it out, so will see how it delivers, and maybe later I'll switch it out for something more suitable and put the KC3000 in my workstation. Thanks again!

[@benjamind.1539]

I'm also thinking about buying an NVME SSD case. However, I couldn't find any cases from brand manufacturers. Are products like Orico or Acasis trustworthy? Can there be no malware on the controller?

[@brubrushanghai]

Great stuff. Thanks

[@godsinbox]

I bought 2 of the TB3/USB4 acasis TB401 enclosures you have, but only one can be used, cant get 2 at the same time. it will disconnect after sleeping. the mac seems to get confused as they both have same intel chipset? or cant deliver enough power, I tried all ports, front and rear and TB hub in monitor. what is the chipset for the 10 in 1 nvme? I assume it is fully compatible with M1 mac and it wakes from sleep without disconnecting? no one wants to reboot just to see the data drive

[@breechcomet9724]

yoh bro u been feeding us a lot of great content recently hope you been taking care inbetween aswell, but these look great though wish they weren't thunderbolt 4 only though & be sure you share those benchmark scores for the 12900ks.😂

[@wanyelandy8847]

phison e18 controller seems to work well with this. But close to $200 it is hard to justify the additional speed over 1GB/s enclosure which can be obtained under 20 usd. For ex, FireCuda 520 2TB is just at $180.

[@christian19944]

To have stable transfer speeds, do you recommend formatting the disk in APFS or MACOS Journaled format? I currently formatted in APFS but I noticed a significant drop in performance after a few minutes of use, from 2500mbs to 90 writing. (ACASIS 40Gbps + Crucial P3 Plus)

[@suryavishwanath8564]

it might be bcoz you cache got full bro... first you should know how data is transfered and ditributed in memory cells and types of memeore cells you have... i dont think crucial p3 has good amount of cache..may be that why the speed failed after some time..if you see teh speed failed at the very first instance..then it might be due to cable..or port....and file formats have very less impact on transfer speeds...

[@teegees]

What if you get another thermal pad and stack two pads on top of each other so that they touch the drive... is that bad?

[@NhatLinhNguyen82]

Can you update firmware with any of those enclosure / hubs?

[@ldr-ym4sp]

Is this acasis compatible fir macbook pro 13 m2?

[@liowyew]

Is a built in heatsink that come with a nvme M2 SSD better

[@dariuszdrozdowski5736]

I have a Lexar 4 TB, 7500 GB storage, and all these hubs are only 10Gbit, are there any faster ones?

[@Kneichion]

I have a Mac Mini M1 I got a ACASIS Thunderbolt 4 Caddy and a Samsung 2T 980 NVMe Pro Just yesterday. I am getting Write Speed of 2807.5 and Read of 2749.8. It gets Very Hot, so going to add the second Thermal Tape and Use a Blower on the Case.

[@gh0sthussi3n83]

hey hey this nvme drive when I looked into MSI website I found out that it's not 1400 TBW for the 1TB it's only 700 and of course 1400 TBW for the 2TB model. and btw Samsung 980 pro is 600 TBW for the 1TB I think something has changed with this MSI drive maybe, i don't know

[@isaatalay5320]

hi i bought acasis 4.0 and start using with my lap top.. But there are problem in using with my M1 ipad pro.İ can take file fromm acasis but can not send (or write) files to it. What should İ do ?

[@KeyIntelMedia]

Any updates on what the best 4TB drive for enclosure would be in 2023?

[@felixmeheux9973]

Please can this be used on a laptop without tinder bolt

[@NtwrkTeam]

I've tested both the tbu401 and tbu405 m1. IMHO they both have the same flaw. When looking for M.2 nVME SSDs my experience currently is that four out of five devices offered will be Gen4 and one will be Gen3. The ACASYS enclosures I tested are configured for Gen3 drives with no option to support Gen4 at native speed. The tbu405 that I received from Amazon appeared to be a tbu401 with the covers scored for better heat distribution, it did not include an internal fan nor were there holes to allow air distribution. My testing was exclusively with Samsung 980 Pro 2tb, and consitently only attained Gen3 performance (understandable with the way the ACASYS enclosures are configured). HTH

[@frazerweb]

The Acasis thunderbolt enclosure has dropped on amazon to £135 so snapped one up. Now I need a 4tb nvme, people have commented that certain brands of nvme perform better than others in this enclosure. I was planning to buy the WD nvme.

[@joeniemand9047]

could you connect it to the android phone USBc, and copy more than 2GB of data before it starts to malfunction??? im trying to find a solution

[@johncollins4888]

I have bought four the ACASIS hubs to use with SSBs. This gives it the best function vs price. I am using with 5 iPads ( with over 200 movies on the SSDs).

[@johncollins4888]

I am using many thunderbolt 4 enclosures with my MacBook M2 with two of there using the 2 thunderbolt 4 ports. I can move 2 TB in just a little more that a hour.

[@johnnywong83]

have an OWC Thunderbolt Pro hub with the 10Gb NIC that is really great for editing over LAN on fast SSD/NVME NAS.

[@Cchogan]

Thunderbolt 4 and USB 4 are similar, but not the same. For instance, TB4 can support 2 4k displays, USB4 only 1. You can have a longer cable with TB4. And a lot of other important differences.

[@Juraiprince]

Thanks for the awesome video! I also own the Acasis SSD enclosure, and regarding the thermal pad, I believe the instructions say to place the pad DIRECTLY ATOP the SSD. I purchased a Western Digital WD_BLACK 4TB SSD and installed it with the thermal pad placed directly on top and it works flawlessly and the drive is super fast hooked up to my Mac Studio. Thanks again for the great video, and keep up the fantastic work! Cheers!

[@earthorganics6883]

Will this memory work with this device ? acer Predator GM7000 2TB M.2 SSD 2280 NVMe Gen4 Internal Gaming SSD, Compatible with PS5 Up to 7400MB/s - BL.9BWWR.106

[@jonnyboy973]

I bought this case with a 2TB WD SN770 (APFS formatted) and connected to an M1 MacBook Air I get around 2700MBps read and write speeds so this seems a bit slow.

[@afestudioafotografogipuzko1556]

Why haven't you given it APFS format?

[@MuhammadAsifLatif]

Acasis hub gets too hot when to transfer data it only works for 2 or 3 minutes and then gets disconnected automatically because of overheating

[@Tigerex966]

Will it work with tb3 on m1 macs amd intel pcs

[@NarekAvetisyan]

Hey man, test the RaidSonic Icy Box IB-1916M-C32. It's USB 3.2 2x2 (20G) which means it should be able to do 2.5GB/s, like it says on their website. And it's only 50$.

[@LustralYT]

I had the hub many many months ago from their kickstarter campaign . Ultimately I got rid of it as it ran really really hot even when it wasn’t accessing the NVME. Doubt it if they have sorted out the heat issue.

[@theTechNotice]

hmmmm.... 🤔

[@LustralYT]

@@theTechNotice Let me expand on this a bit more, I got the hub around about mid 2021 for the use of my MacBook M1 as it lacked the ports that I wanted to use. I backed their Kickstarter project pretty early on as it seemed to tick all the boxes that I needed. Fast forward to receiving the unit. It was sure looked like the business, however it ran really hot when I initially used it with a 1TB Sabrent Rocket NVME Drive. The Sabrent drive is a Gen 3 which shouldn't get too hot when not in constant use. However the hub was pretty much unbearable to touch after about 20-30 mins plugged into the MacBook with the 65 Watt plugged into the PD passthrough on the hub. So I reached out to Acasis and they refused to refund me, but offered me a partial refund of about £20 for the inconvenience of it being too hot, however they maintained that it was working as intended ? I eventually cut my losses and go rid the hub. Ill never buy from Acasis again from that initial experience from them.

[@oasesommer904]

Ahh, I bought this 10-in-1 hub too last month. With the same SABRENT ROCKET Q4 1TB, however, it only gets warm. When transferring 2G files, the Crystal Disk Info shows only around 45 ° C; when IDLE, it is around 35-40 ° C; Generally, its heat dissipation is quite good. And my guess: ACASIS's hub has been upgraded without overheating issue, and the old version is the one you are using. There seems to be a bug in that old one.

[@LustralYT]

@@oasesommer904 Im sure they have silently revised it. However im not prepared to pay for it again at the higher price £80 approx when I got it for about £50 approx on the Kickstarter. I will await for something else by someone else to be released.

[@charlesschenk6290]

I've purchased sheets of thermal pads in various thicknesses from Amazon. They were not expensive. I suspect a 2mm thick pad would work on the ACASIS USB 4.0 m.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure. I ordered one of those cases, and have various sheets of thermal pads. We'll find out in a few days. Also if you happen to use both Mac and Windows, I expect you can format the NVMe drive as XFAT, which works on Mac and Windows.

[@BonaDeum]

How did it work out, mate?

[@stilmotionpicture]

@@BonaDeum how was the speed when formatted in EXfat vs Mac? Is there a difference in speed?

[@PeterJohnston42]

Will it work on a fast non Thunderbolt laptop like my Asus Ryzen 5800

[@soulinspiration1]

I bought the Acasis SSD enclosure and placed a Crucial 4TB SSD inside, which cost me about $300 on Amazon Prime Day. Man, it is blazing fast. I have a 512GB M2 Max Studio and for $300, I added 4TB instead of paying Apple's $1200 to add 4TB to the M2 Max Studio! With that price, one could buy two and use one set as a Time Machine Backup.

[@iforgot3942]

That’s what I did. It works great. I even boot off of these as extra hard drives. I get Up to 3000 read & writes. These are great.

[@KlemenKotar]

How fast is the Acasis box? I'm thinking of doing the same. Mac Studio + tb box/nvme.

[@soulinspiration1]

@@KlemenKotar I have not done any testing. However, I use it daily as the main storage for my huge DAW files and I can't tell the difference between loading files into the DAW from the Mac Studio vs loading files from the Acasis.

[@KlemenKotar]

@@soulinspiration1 Thanks!

[@MehranJabbari]

What is the program on your desktop displaying all stats….super cool

iStatistica Pro

[@martin_kuchar]

Do any Acasys survive Mac M1 sleep and wakeup? My always stays disconnected and not visible in Disk utility after Mac mini M1 wakeup. I always must unplug and plug it again :(

[@bobmill4023]

Please deselect "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" both in Battery and and Power Adapter. Stting in your Mac mini M1

[@janguardian]

I like it how you approximated 1,000 MB/s to 10 Gbit/s.

[@JimRobinson-colors]

There seems to be ( in Canada ) tw ACASIS USB 4.0 m.2 NVMe SSD Enclosures that look almost identical with a slightly different description - one is 69 dollars more than the other - makes it a little confusing as it might be two different products or one is charging more for the same product. I want one - just don't want to get ripped off - your link goes to a generic page with an Amazon or B&H - when clicking the amazon link the page I get has a bunch of enclosures on it.

[@devtank]

Great vid. Concise and informative.. Your accent(s) are killing me, where? A nordic country, UK and Ireland?

[@chebrubin]

Why would anyone not initialize AFPS?

[@brianwest2775]

NVME drives do have different heights. I assume that they leave room for the largest drives to prevent returns when drives don't fit.

[@D-One]

All those enclosures i've been seeing never make contact with the thermal pads and metal cases, some even have fans blowing to the back of the PCB... I mean, it's quite deceiving markting.

[@colindoyle9876]

Are all chips the same height?

[@DanoFPV]

What is the application in the background showing graphics processor network etc?

[@theTechNotice]

iStatistica

[@riopato2009]

Why Mac os instead AFS?

[@gabrieldonl2311]

1000Mbps is not 10Gbps, it is 1Gbps, which means you are using 14% of the speed capacity of that specific NVMe SSD drive with the first product you are showing, if I got it right. The last one did better but still is less than 50% of it's capacity.

[@matoatlantis]

You are saying "1000Mbps", i.e. megabits per second. On the box it says 1000 MBps, so megabytes per second. So it's (1000*8)/1024 ~= 7.82 Gbps. It's still far from 10 Gbps but closer than what you said.

[@DucatiLee_]

Skipped the first one for my m2 Mac mini pro since it’s only 10gbps capped. It’s 40gbps or nothing to get ~3k read/write speeds

[@willcurry6964]

I need a quad nvme jbod with thunderbolt 3 connecters in raid 0 or bigger with maybe 8 nvme drives. That would be fast enough for me. I currently have 2 Sabrent dual mvme enclosure and I am upgrading to OWC Quad enclosure. There are 4 4TB Seagate 530 GEN 4 nvme drives in my dual enclosures. Note that they slow down with heat. When are we going to see a nvme NAS with 10 GB eithernet and Thunderbolt 3 or 4 ports. A nvme JBOD would be even better.

[@MehranJabbari]

Try the OWC Express 4 M.2

[@saqlaq96]

Thoughts on the TREBLEET thunderbolt SSD enclosure/dock? Seems to be VERY fast and have more storage capacity than these enclosures

[@alittlebitgone]

They all run at the same speed as that is set by the standard, none of these devices have ANY capacity, you have to add a drive for capacity.

[@wmcc4863]

TREBLEET is not compatible with sabrent GEN 4 drives. Had to,send mine back

[@JustChillingOut]

USB and Thunderbolt ports are not the same as you claim. Great review. Thanks!

[@alittlebitgone]

Yes, they are. You can plug any USB-C cable into any Thunderbolt port and vice versa, the ports are physically the same.

[@klownaround5464]

Well he mostly means the tech specs not the fact that the “ports” are interchangeable and use the same connection. It it NOT THE SAME AND DISINGENUOUS TO SAY THE LEAST!!! ​ hey Ty for the correction- these YT TECH WANNABE SCIENTIST KNOW-NUTHIN’s NOOBIES ARE ALWAYS PONTIFICATING & WAXING POETIC ABOUT WTF THEY KNOW NUTHIN ABOUT-😤😤😳😳😱😱✅✅✅ wtf would there be a TB4 SPEC OUT IF THEY ARE THE SAME AS TB3??? I don’t want yesterday’s technology and TB4 has Stricker Rules for the tech companies and we always being LIED TO WITH THESE ERRONEOUS NAMING SCHEMES i.e. USB TB4 OR TB4 this that??? Thanks for TEACHING US THE REAL FACTS!!!

[@raihanuddin2615]

Bro, one question please, as it has no cooling fan, does it overheat or how much longevity can I get of SSD by these enclosure. Please leave a reply. Your vast knowledge of technology must help me. Thank you Brother

[@artemisa81]

overheats!

[@spx2338]

The enclosure get very hot!

[@artemisa81]

@@spx2338 it is so bad that I do not know how these people do all the marketing, they must be giving these away to them.

[@mr.blurred606]

you should put the thermal pad directly to the ssd

[@IanJames56]

Also, format drive to AFPS!

[@user-gw1pf4zu5i]

so wait how many gigs could you transfer in a minute?

[@awakening2dream]

Does these have to be ejected in macOS every time I restart or turn off my mac studio? I'd like something external but kind of permanent.

[@j340_official]

macOS will unmount media if you choose shutdown or restart from the apple menu. If you force restart or force power off then no it won’t unmount automatically. And if you get the thunderbolt enclosure, macOS will treat the drive like it’s an internal drive. Because thunderbolt is an externalization of the pcie bus, but as far as the OS is concerned, it’s still pcie. It will treat the drive as if it were connected to an internal m.2 nvme slot inside the Mac. In fact, you can even install and boot macOS from a nvme drive connected via thunderbolt.

[@awakening2dream]

@@j340_official Thank you!

[@rolandsilvajr1]

Maybe the not touching if they have different heat sink tape maybe they thought you might use double sided nvme ssds

[@lefteyeentertainment4693]

My ACASIS M.2 is overheating at idle with a new Mac Studio. I noticed the drive kept disconnecting, touched the enclosure and it was very hot. Disconnected, let it cool, reconnect, same issue. Leaving the cover off and adding heatsink seems to have stopped the problem, however not ideal. SSD is Sabrent Rocket 2TB 4.0... has anyone else had this issue?

[@spx2338]

My Acasis enclosure also gets very hot! To get the temperture down I used 1.5mm Gelid GP Ultimate thermal pad now on the NVME. It touches the enclosure lid when closed and conducts heat to the enclosure. Its getting 65-70 degrees celcius.

[@lefteyeentertainment4693]

@@spx2338 Same issue with mine using the heat conducting strip. 65-70C is quite hot, that’s about how hot mine felt as I couldn’t hold it for long. I’ve been in discussion with ACASIS support and it has not been a pleasant experience.

[@orlandomorales5423]

Are there any enclosures that actually get to the speeds the gen 4 drives are capable of? 2500 MB/s is pretty disappointing when the gen 4's go 7000.

[@ZhuJo99]

no. the limit here is the Thunderbolt 4 bandwidth which is 32 Gbit/s for data (rest reserved for display only, can eat up from data bandwidth, ie. 4k definitely will). There is no external port faster than TB 4 now. So the limit is 32 Gbit/s minus some overhead due to data passing through controller.

[@DayeLaHookz]

Thanks for the info. I have an older Mac that has an A usb port instead of a C port. It looks like Acasis has a C port connection. Do you have any other suggestions for me to get something just as fast? Also, I want to use it as a boot drive. Is Acasis the best for that, or is there something better for that?

[@PashaDefragzor]

better to take some USB flash memory with large capacity and much smaller size. For example USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C and that it. Weird idea to mix hub with ssd case

[@michael4135]

Hey can you confirm that these are actually usb 3.2 and not usb 4? Based on the performance, the read/write you're seeing is on par with all the usb 3.2 models on amazon. Satechi just dropped what they are calling "the first usb 4.0 nvme enclosure" yesterday, so I don't think Acasis is being honest here

[@All-pervading]

Bro, love from India❤......Bro I have a request please make video on how to set up thunderbolt card through thunderbolt header in a windows pc ...😊

[@iFaFo_0]

Can I close this enclosure if my nvme has a heatsink?

[@theTechNotice]

No

[@brown2840]

Can you tell me what the ethernet port is for?

[@theTechNotice]

Internet? Or Networking, NAS, etc..

[@Yankee_Doodle_Stacker]

Samsung and sabrent both sell optional heat sinks with sabrent even a small one and a large one with pipes! Why arent these enclosure manufacturers simply cutting a big hole in the top for one of those? or leaving clearance for at least the thinner heat sinks? I dont see that case doing very much

[@johnathanbeats]

I got the same usb4 acasis enclosure with a inland name ssd. 1400 write and 2700 read. m1 mini 16 ram. thunderbolt Anker 5 in 1 dock.

[@bobmill4023]

Due to the upgrade for M1 chip, all the enclosures show in the market just got write 1100-1400, if you want to got fast write as read as, just use another version.

[@johnathanbeats]

@@bobmill4023 when I hook my Anker tb4 dock up in on tb3 port and my enclosure in the other I get 2700 read and write. I guess it makes it push more.

[@22plepte.ltd.96]

Acasis will be rolling out a TB4/USB4 SSD enclosure with an internal fan within the next month...I have 3 of their enclosure including the TB3 TBU412 hub but holding back my next purchase while waiting for this new enclosure It will be tool-less enclosure as well, so I'm guessing they will be using magnets

[@Stevexupen]

not magnets, it's some kind of spring loaded ball locking mechanism

[@VASY460]

hello ucan do more video like this i need 4-5 gb nvme m2 and adaptop

[@psycl0ptic]

but what about quality/reliability?

[@froznfire9531]

Kinda sad that the fastest external SSDs are only reaching budget 3.0 internal SSDs... They really need to upgrade the ports to be able to make use of 4.0 or even 5.0 soon.

[@theTechNotice]

True, that's the story of apple storage....

[@Wlad1]

Well, according to rumors, Thunderbolt5 will double the data to 80 Gbit/s next year...so we could expect it to reach about 6-6,5 GB/s (with short active cables and massive external enclosures with enhanced cooling design).

[@funcrusher213]

@@theTechNotice You formatted it as HFS+ instead of APFS....

[@jimcallahan448]

Maybe the design assumes a heat sink on the SSD already?

[@1lynton128]

5:27 You say USB4.0 and Thunderbolt 4 are exactly the same thing. They aren't. Thunderbolt 4 is a superset of USB4. The Acasis box shown in the video doesn't say Thunderbolt 4, it says USB4.0. In various other marketing promotions, Acasis claims Thunderbolt 3 status , not Thunderbolt 4. For NVMe storage and theoretic transfer speed (40Gbps) the distinctions don't matter, but for other things (e.g Display connectivity) they do matter. Bottom line: This Acasis enclosure is NOT a Thunderbolt 4 product.

[@klownaround5464]

hey Ty for the correction- these YT TECH WANNABE SCIENTIST KNOW-NUTHIN’s NOOBIES ARE ALWAYS PONTIFICATING & WAXING POETIC ABOUT WTF THEY KNOW NUTHIN ABOUT-😤😤😳😳😱😱✅✅✅ wtf would there be a TB4 SPEC OUT IF THEY ARE THE SAME AS TB3??? I don’t want yesterday’s technology and TB4 has Stricker Rules for the tech companies and we always being LIED TO WITH THESE ERRONEOUS NAMING SCHEMES i.e. USB TB4 OR TB4 this that??? Thanks for TEACHING US THE REAL FACTS!!!

[@thatdiyguyraymondmonk1225]

You should have installed the thermal pad directly onto the drive.

[@alittlebitgone]

He did.

[@thatdiyguyraymondmonk1225]

@@alittlebitgone I must have missed it then…

[@IanJames56]

Also use real Apple Pro braided TB cables

[@S3XYdriver]

Am I missing something? Thunderbolt 4 is rated at 40GBPS and it’s only showing around 2300 mb/s speeds…

[@pawelchmielinski6701]

USB on this hub does NOT support display! You can connect it only by HDMI