Why you shouldn’t buy a cheap SSD enclosure?

Cheap Ebay 10Gbps M.2 NVME SSD USB3.1 GEN 2 Enclosure review and benchmark test. Testing read/write speed with file transfer and connectivity test.

Xbox does not recognise this cheap NVME SSD enclosure as USB3.0 and over. Also, detecting it as a too slow media type. Xbox error “To capture game clips and screenshots externally, storage must be USB 3.0 or faster. This device is too slow. (0x80bd003b)”.

0:00 M.2 NVME SSD Enclosure Price
0:26 Samsung 256GB M.2 NVME SSD (MZ-VLW2560)
0:46 CrystalDiskMark Tool (SSD Read/Write Speed Test)
1:37 File Transfer (Read/Write Speed Test)
2:18 Xbox Connectivity Issues
3:03 Online Community Comments on Similar Cheap SSD Enclosure
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[frankbumstead]

Yes I recently bought a Corsair 500GB NVMe M2 Drive and just by chance bought the UGREEN enclosure shown in your video. I ran CrystalDiskMark several times and checked the temperature by touch and found it to be slightly warm. The speed was approx 400MB per second on a high speed USB socket. The Interface was bought separately and a matching PCIe card was used, connected by a blue cable.

[regwatson]

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[dropsofmexico]

So i bought an enclosure recommended on a youtube channel and it seemed fine. I used it to clone my old nvme to a new one and after stored the old one in this enclosure and until recently i decided to reset and reformat the drive for use as storage drive. After this clean and reformatting I found the speeds to be at about what you got in your video. 40 MB/s . Im wondering If I did something wrong or if this is just a result of using a cheap enclosure. The health is great on crystal disk info and the total writes arent even close to the advertised life of the drive.

[simon]

Your enclosure is limited by the USB chipset within your adapter, which I can guarantee you will be a generic and v3.1 module.
The 40mb transfer speeds are expected from an eBay adapter that is advertising "10Gbps M.2 NVME SSD USB3.1 GEN 2" - this does not mean it will transfer at those speeds but that the chipset supports reading and writing from that classification type. This is why the advertisement probably did not show or mention actual "read/write" test (which will have a tonne of variables).

You are better of getting something branded, most of the US/Korean ones have a branded chipset with much better capabilities.