Question I'm looking for an M.2 external enclosure that preserves the SSD's model name, not change it to the enclosure's model name ?

[neonphelps]

i have a Samsung M.2 SSD 990 Pro in a 3rd party, ASUS enclosure.
Windows Device Mgr shows the drive ID as an Asus "TUF-ESD-T1A SCSI", not a Samsung 990 Pro

This makes it impossible to use Samsung's Magician & OS Cloning app, their app doesn't see the drive as the Samsung drive inside the external enclosure. It appears that Samsung does not sell an M.2 enclosure.

Is there an enclosure that preserves and passes the drive's true ID info to Windows so that Samsung's Magician recognizes the connection as their 990 Pro ?

 

[helpstar]

eventually a TB3 or higher version enclosure could get this running,
but it´s better to plug it in internally, update and clone