[SOLVED] Samsung 850 EVO SSD showing up as SCSI

[SingBlueSilver]

Hi all,

I have an open box Samsung SSD 850 EVO in an external enclosure. It shows as SCSI in Device Manager, which it clearly is not. Is this a problem? I just wanted to check with you good folks before I clone my primary drive to it.

I see that somebody else had that issue:

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/samsung-ssds-showing-as-scsi-disk-device.3677257/


However, as these shots will show, I'm already AHCI. (And yes, I love my ancient new-to-me computer and monitor. )

https://imgur.com/a/hardware

View: https://imgur.com/a/hardware-XmUpH00

https://imgur.com/a/device

View: https://imgur.com/a/device-manager-PrrFOmY



I really hope I did that correctly.

Thank you very much in advance to all who are reading.

 

[SingBlueSilver]

I see that something went wrong with my links to Imgur. Please let me know if you can't get to my screenshots and I'll try again. TIA.

 

[Maxxify]

External enclosures over USB will show as SCSI; they use the UASP (USB Attached SCSI Protocol).

 

[SingBlueSilver]

External enclosures over USB will show as SCSI; they use the UASP (USB Attached SCSI Protocol).

Aha! Thank you so much. I did a DuckDuckGo search before asking, but it didn't yield much. I didn't type in external because I didn't know that had anything to do with it. Now I know!

Thanks again. I love learning new factoids.