He means u can take it out and slot in another ssd with bigger memory

@@CodyTheBeerBear_ I know what he means, but his definition of expandable is not correct. When you expand, you are able to keep the current capacity and add some more.

@@rdy4ever What are your sources for this definition?

Literally any English dictionary lol @@tjnak

Nice display pic though, anyone who looks like that should be president of the USA @@tjnak

Also known as building

@@slob5041 No, that's known as installing. You didn't build the SSD, or the enclosure. All you did was plug it in, and put the screws back in the cover. If you think that's actually building something, I feel sorry for you. 🙄 You don't say you built a computer, just because you added some RAM to it. Even if you buy all the parts and put a tower together, it's still just assembly. 😆 Now, if you went into a machine shop, and physically built that enclosure, soldered a PC board together, with a all the necessary components, and installed that inside of it, then you could say you actually built it.

​@@SloppyGoat"Assembling" a computer as you call it is called building a computer by literally every computer tech channel on YT

@@jayfunk13 Yes, and they are all wrong about that. All they're doing is assembling parts they buy. And that is astronomically more than just taking four screws out and replacing them. In what world is that actually building something, to you? Four fucking screws? 😆🙄 Can you name one part in your computer that you actually made? 🙄🙄🙄 In this case, ASUS built the enclosure. And whatever SSD manufacturer built that.

Yeah, this is “building” the same way that putting water in a glass before drinking it is “building” a glass of water.

Thx

They are about the same. Different SSDs in each enclosure so I can’t compare straight across. I prefer the cheaper option because I’m not a fan of LED.

Lol you are correct, you don't save any money at all. I have priced them out for our studio a million times & for an apples to apples equally fast enclosure & SSD, you always pay significantly more building your own. You can't sell a used SSD for jack squat, so when it comes time to upgrade it, you will end up with a random leftover internal SSD just lying around. The T7 hits the sweet spot for speed, price, reliability, & warranty.

@@richardallen08Exactly. I checked here and a SSD + Enclosure now cost more than a Samsung T7, because 2.TB SSD is so cheap now especially on sale. ;) Enclosures only made sense for HDD's 10-20 years ago. Old external Seagate HDD's for example could stop working, but were ususally only the HDD controller that broke. If you took out the HDD, it still worked and you could put it in a new working enclosure.

@@V3ntilator right, plus T7 is compatible with cameras and can be used to record raw from the camera, while I'm not sure that's this enclosures are compatible.

@@juandjo707 Yeah. Some enclosures uses a buggy firmware too that makes them randomly disconnect, and some weren't designed for heat either. It's best to stick with tested brands like Samsung that is sold everywhere worldwide. You save nothing by using unknown brands.

my thoughts exactly, makes zero sense paying for faster ram that cant be used, I mean alot of pcs/laptops can only send at around 1000 in any case.....and okay lets say we can use it as internal ram for a laptop or mini pc, well it will need formatting later anyway. Thanks for the tip, I'm trying to work out what 2-4tb drive to get with this exact model. Ideally there would be a decent 20gpbs offering, there are good 40gpbs but they cost nearly as much as the ssd! The 20gbps ones out there are garbage also and need faffing with wiring

Especially when the enclosure says “can accommodate up to 2 TB “, so this “upgrade in the future” actually isn’t.

In my country the external SSD's are cheaper then the cost of building one. Can get a Samsung T7 2TB on under 150$.

I don't know where you're getting a $63 external 2 tb SSD from. And yes its better value considering the speed these provide, one could be a bit smart and buy cheaper ssd as these are overkill , also cheaper cases are available for 1/3 of the price shown in the vid.

@@bablusonavne384 The same exact one he showed on the video is $85 on Walmart website. The parts he showed in this are $200. You benefit from doing this building an 8TB+ not a tiny little 2TB lol

⁠@@TheNamesRyan That’s something else, not the price of an extreme pro 2TB which is $239 at Walmart. I think the point here is you can get a better drive. The nonsense about expandable is nullified by the 2TB limit of the case he’s using. He should have dropped that point, but the cost shouldn’t deter you.

A Toshiba 2TB portable external drive for under USD 70 is a hard disk drive (mechanical drive). That is orders of magnitude slower than an NVMe SSD, if this SSD is connected through a USB 3.2 (or higher) capable port. A USB 3.2 port is capable of 2.5 GigaBytes per second, and a good NVMe SSD nowadays can transfer data at over 5 GigaBytes per second, so it will use the full data rate capacity of a USB 3.2 port. It will be even faster with a USB 4 port. Your Toshiba mechanical disk will probably do 140 MegaBytes per second max. That is 17 times lower than a good NVMe SSD through a USB 3.2 port, or 34 times slower if you use a USB 4 port. So a full 2TB transfer will take best case 4 hours for your Toshiba mechanical drive, and worst case 14 minutes for the NVMe SSD (7 minutes with a USB4 port). These are theoretical values depending on the port, enclosure, the type of NVMe disk, etc. But in any case, there is at least an order of magnitude of difference. An enclosure with an NVMe SSD is at least 10 times faster than an external USB HDD.

USB 3.0+ is always going to have faster transfer speeds over 1/2 assuming your device supports it.

You are saying a plugin NVME device is limited to the USB speed. @@CuppaLiber-tea

Yes, that is what I use it and tested it on.

if you format this volume as exFat it will work on both Mac and Windows

You can change out the SSD without having to purchase another enclosure.

@@jeradhilltech I think this enclosure only supports max 2 TB drives

@@AbhishekKumar0010 4TB is max

@@shreyasdharashivkar8027the enclosure in the link says “can accommodate up to 2 TB “

@@jeradhilltechHow do I upgrade a 2TB drive with a “can accommodate up to 2 TB” enclosure?

Lol

Gottem

Using FireCuda 530 4TB with this

​@@OlymPeekdoes this enclosure work with a 4tb SSD ??

@@manickamk3653 Yes, as I said it works with my Firecuda 530 4TB and also getting around 940-960mb/s read/write with USB 3.2 Gen1 Type C

Not any faster than editing and exporting on the internal system drive, but I experience no lag or issues editing and exporting to this drive.

The Acasis enclosure supports 40gbps

yes, that one is good. I am looking fwd to a 40gbps enclosure for the new tiny nvme ssd format (sized similar to an sd card)@@mrmeeks222

gen4 drives generally/should exceed the usb speed that these enclosures are capable of, especially the slow enclosures this youtuber is showing. Even newer usb4 enclosures are only capable of outputting approx half the speed of a decent gen4 nvme. usb is the limitation.

whats the name of device or link?

Still working at good speeds today

Link to amazon product pls :)

Its expandable in the sense that you can upgrade the enclosure to a larger capacity drive.

@@jeradhilltech Got it. Thank you.

that would easily make the enclosure 2-3 times more expensive , at which point all its benefits become insignificant.

where can i get a 2TB SSD for $60? send me the link!!

Solidigm P41 Plus 2tb Gen 4 at $65 right now

​@@MilossiSeagate Portable 2TB External Hard Drive HDD - USB 3.0 for PC, Mac, PlayStation, & Xbox -1-Year Rescue Service

My thoughts exactly. That thing is not expandable. It would be expandable if it had more than one ssd slots. Only one slot doesn’t make much sense.

Cool but it’s a vac shouldn’t that be away from games?

@@user-ji6ol5cd9v vac?

I just put a 4TB in and it works great.

yep. Just check your file system support on your phone and make sure to format it to fit, exfat will work

@nigeltelevet I did I couldn't figure it out. So I said screw it I got the 2 tb samsung 990 pro

Yes it does.

Yes. Just make sure the drive is formatted to xfat

USB 4.0

lol what is the point in correcting someone if you are going to give wrong info too? USB4 homie. Also, for anyone on Mac, they don't support 3.2 gen 2x2.

yep, I just built one.

@@FlyingFun. Awesome!

Did you try Disk Management allocation?

This is why USB 3.2 2×1 (1250 MB per second) or 2×2 (2500 MB per second) is still the better choice. It's widely adapted and supported. What people don't understand is that if you want to have a small drive, then heat is a problem. If you take a good look at the USB4 enclosures, you will realize that they are actually bulky. As of our current technology, USB 4 is not a suitable option for small portable drives. For bet compatibility, USB 3.2 2×1 does a wonderful job. Though 3.2 2×2 would get a bit hot to the touch. I'm using a 990 pro 4TB in the Asus Tuff A1. I run WSL images with docker and k8s on it, and it performs just outstanding.

not all enclusres are the same, most have problems with drives over 2 TB and speed, also if you port is only USB 3.x you get only 1 GB transferspeed

Thanks for watching all the way through 😝

heating does not always have to signify that it is bad. the reason is that thermal pad is dissipating heat and helping SSD to prevent thermal throttle

Using 4TB on this with no issue

@@OlymPeek Which 4TB are you using? And how's the real world read/write speeds for you? Thanks in advance!

@@himshurai i’m using seagate firecuda 530 4tb (non heatsink version) and real world speeds were suprisingly fast enough for my work which is game development and working with huge 3D project files. Also I remember that it was installing games from steam at about 650mb/s writing speed. You need to use the cable that comes with the device to get highest speed you can get from it tho. I’ve tested it with couple different usb-c to usb-c cables and non of them were able to reach high speed transfers

Lol, wiseiyng

Yes, specifically this enclosure came with USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10gbps), it can only reach max 10*125=1250 mb/s, way less than inserted into the board. But at temporarily needed, I'm planning to have something of stable quality to do the system cloning, this enclosure is way better than others