enclosure

With the upcoming Black Friday/Cyber Monday, I finally decided to pull the trigger on a big data consolidation I needed to do for a long time and got myself a RAID enclosure, with an upcoming purchase of a couple of HDDs for it, so I thought now is the best time to ask a few questions to make...

I have a USB 3 NVME enclosure that is supposed to have RGB functionality. The hardware ID I get from Windows is USB\VID_0BDA&PID_9210&REV_F001 The only color I see is red, and it blinks while being accessed. Does anyone know of a firmware that I could install to restore the RGB functionality?

To sum it up, I'm a pc gamer whose barely scratched the surface of actually understanding the tech and I'm trying to find a way to expand my pc's storage capability externally in a way that essentially future proofs it and ends the cycle of deleting games to make room for others in todays...

I bought an Addlink Addgame A95 NVMe SSD, 4TB (https://www.amazon.com/addlink-Internal-Heatsink-Compatible-Solid-State/dp/B09HJVDW69?th=1). I also bought an external enclosure for it: MAIWO M.2 NVME SSD Enclosure Adapter (https://www.newegg.com/maiwo-k1689p-enclosure/p/0VN-00D8-00037). I hook...

I have a synology ds920+ in and have replaced several drives and have a collection of 8tb Seagate compute (yes i know some are smr, hourly i can still use them?) and Toshiba n300 drives and an ironwolf. I wanted to create storage that i can put together a collection of retro files on (all kinds...

Hello! I have a problem with Silicon Power PD60 NVMe SSD enclosure. It's very slow on my main computer - transfer speeds only ~40 megabytes per second on USB 3.1 gen 1 ports (Front and back). I tried it on other computer, and it worked fine (~200-300 megabytes per second transfers). It doesn't...

I have trouble getting a 4Tb Samsung 860 QVO to work via SATA after it was initially formated in an external enclosure - "ADATA EX500" USB 3.1 Enclosure with the HDJMZZB1 controller inside. The MBR got corrupted while inside the enclosure and all data was lost. To avoid the MBR going "bad"...

Hello, I'm having a problem connecting m.2 disk to this UGREEN dual M.2 Enclosure. It doesn't fit, I can't make it work. I already have another Asus rog strix arion m.2 enclosure and everything is working fine , I know how to connect hardware. I tried to put inside Samsung m.2 980 pro 2TB...

I'm having a weird issue after setting up a new machine, it has a 4 BAY Mediasonic ProBox HF2-SU3S2 Enclosure connected to it with a USB 3.0 cable, I've used this drive on this same machine (before upgrading its motherboard / RAM/ CPU / NVMA drive). The Enclosure has 4 drives in it and works...

I have a pretty good MSI laptop that I purchased two years ago - its got an i7-8750h, a GTX 1070, 16 gb of RAM, but unfortunately only a USB 3.1 Gen 2 type C port. I was wondering a couple of things - would it be worth it to connect a newer external GPU to my laptop? Could I use an external GPU...

I'm looking for a SATA to USB 3.1 Gen 1 (minimum) adapter or enclosure that supports UASP as well. I'll mainly be using this for an external SSD for my Xbox Series X probably so the faster the better. I've been browsing a bunch of enclosures on Amazon but I really don't know which ones to go...

Hello Is I want to make an external SSD system meaning using an enclosure to USB 3.0/3.1, which solution is the best? Using SATA SSD to USB or M2 SSD to USB?

I'm looking for a good hard drive enclosure for my Toshibia external drive. I want to take it out of the enclosure and put it in one with a fan, so that the drive will no longer get to 46c while idle. All enclosures I've seen have mixed reviews, so I have no clue which one to get. The drive runs...

I have an ancient 2.5 Seagate Momentus 5400.3 internal HDD (model ST9160821A) from a laptop that I got rid of years ago. I'm looking for the right USB cable or enclosure to purchase to see what data (if any) is on this drive. Can you help me determine what the right equipment would be to do...