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I've heard that, dell docking stations do suck. We have used the Plugable brand and they seem to hold up pretty well.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ECDM78E/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_NkxcGbMQ52Y49?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

100% agree with the conclusion a dedicated dock and 2tb enclosure a much better deal. Especially for the price.

TS3+ is a great comparison for someone in the market:

https://smile.amazon.com/CalDigit-TS3-Plus-Thunderbolt-Dock/dp/B07CZPV8DF

> Apparently not after finally finding the specifications for my laptop. Took longer than I thought. Gen3, but this was the listing that helped me find them.

If your laptop boots from a mechanical hard disk, pretty much any SSD would be an upgrade. Problem is everything is expensive because of the current situation.

This is the one I have on my Windows desktop machine. However, it is a desktop with no NVMe slot (I could buy a PCIe 3.0 but meh). If your laptop supports NVMe SSD, you could get this drive for USD 150. Just know that you will likely not get the full performance boost this SSD offers.

Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-76E1T0B/AM)

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Inch-Internal-MZ-76E1T0B-AM/dp/B078DPCY3T/

However,

🙋 You can grab this dude for a steal on Amazon. For the great quality, it's an unbelievable price. (If you're in the market for one, lol.)

You used Rufus? Conner, are you from the past?

Let me introduce you to Zen and The Art of Multi Booting ISO Files.

[Ventoy.net](Ventoy.net). Get a big USB drive for $40 and you can have ALL your ISO's on one bootable USB drive with PLENTY of left over space for your funny cat videos collection.

It's not the best USB out there but looking at capacity / cost ratio, it's a good deal.

On a Dell 7010 MT, I get 90Mbps read and a gradual slide from 101Mbps to 15Mbps write when writing large files.

Put all your ISO files in an ISO directory to keep things nice and neat and ensure you don't have spaces in the ISO filenames, underscores or hyphens will do nicely.

You can still use the drive as a regular USB thumb drive, you could also have Kevin or Brian do a review on it, call it a, uhh, mmm, viewer request! :)

https://www.flipkart.com/samsung-970-evo-plus-1-tb-laptop-desktop-internal-solid-state-drive-mz-v7s1t0bw/p/itm97ac2d30906ef?pid=IHDFRRBX9QQVCSAY&lid=LSTIHDFRRBX9QQVCSAYKNHWB4&marketplace=FLIPKART

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Yes, Going to use this as an external SSD for only storage purpose, that too not very frequently

Too many unsafe shutdowns. Definitely backup and restore to a new drive.

Use Veeam Agent to backup the entire drive or duplicati to backup only user data.

https://www.veeam.com/windows-cloud-server-backup-agent.html

https://www.vmwareblog.org/single-cloud-enough-secure-backups-5-cool-cross-cloud-solutions-consider/

VMware vSphere 7 is really great software, I use in pair with NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10 with support for VMware vSphere 7, backup to Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage, Linux-based workstation backups.

I will concede in that ONE highly specific scenario this box sorta makes sense, but then why not use a much cheaper PCIE card with Bifurcation? Still cheaper, and you get better performance. The only way this sorta makes sense is if your using this on a laptop because "portability" but again there are a ton of cheaper solutions that work just as well.

If your only getting an enclosure like this for the "speed" then your giving so much up. 4 NVME drives are capable of much high reads/Writes but your limited by the interface. So why not get a single, bigger NVME for less and use something like the asus enclosure. Same speed, way more portable, and 1/4 of the price.

https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-ROG-Arion-Aluminum-Enclosure/dp/B07ZKB4SLK/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=nvme+portable&qid=1623429128&sr=8-4

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"NVMe has plenty of write endurance for this use case. These are not 24/7 devices and the vast majority of workloads are write once, read many scenarios. And I explicitly recommend in the article to avoid QLC drives."

You cant seriously be suggesting anyone use these for bulk storage? Maybe I'm reading this wrong but a raid NVME enclosure as bulk storage? I to love pissing money in the wind and living dangrously.

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"SoftRAID is optional, and if you already own another OWC product that came with it, you don't have to purchase an additional license. You can use whatever software RAID application you want with it, or use the software RAID built into Windows or macOS."

ok? thats the same dumb argument Intel made for Vroc and everyone shit on them. I'm not aware of any other enclosure or NVME card that requires you to pay a "licensing Fee" to do raid.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N44HETR/?coliid=I1DG4S0TP4H8AD&colid=2AS9QR9PFZN2P&psc=0

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Throw in two ssds and your close to the performance, far more portable, and way cheaper. Another issue I have is using NVME for write intensive applications, most of your common NMVE drives have way less write endurance compared SSDs.

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I find it interesting as well no one is commenting on the fact it requires an upcharge to use a feature. 250 dollar device with a 100$ upcharge at that, Intel tried this with VRoc and alot of media shit all over them for it.

We haven't spent a lot of time with adapter chains like what you are trying out. When we've used NVMe SSDs outside of a factory server slot, we've used an adapter such as one of these:

StarTech.com U.2 to PCIe Adapter - x4 PCIe - For 2.5" U.2 NVMe SSD - SFF-8639 PCIe Adapter - U.2 SSD - PCIe SSD - U.2 drive (PEX4SFF8639) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072JK2XLC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_6V7NTB3JA8AJTDK1HZA9

You probably won't find a lot of traditional debug help on these since they should be plug and play with no setup. If it works it appears, if it's not working its defective or not connected correctly.

If you need someone to test the drives themselves if it gets to that point, FedEx has a flatrate service that would cost about 9 bucks each way. I can load them onto a server to rule out the drives themselves being a problem.

$179 according to amazon https://www.amazon.com/Lexar-microSDXC-Compatible-Nintendo-LMSPLAY001T-BNNNU/dp/B08T8LL7G8?linkId=b9ef8e07fb44a8f10761b14d8f132954&language=en_US

You can grab the panels on Amazon for $170. They have a lot of info available under the company's product description there. :)

Answer from SK hynix:

May not be compatible with BIOS that supports Pyrite 1.0 and SED/ OPAL.

Gold P31 SSD supports Pyrite 2.0.

 Additional note: 
The technical specification details are included in the product brief(technical specification). Also, every consumer can download it on technical specification section at Amazon Product Page.