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Hi all,
I've been trying to use ORICO NVMe SSD Enclosure 40Gbps enclosures with 4TB drives and have had mixed success. I first bought a 1TB WD_BLACK SN750I used with a slow-ish 10GBps ORICO enclosure, which has worked reliably. Then bought a 4TB Silicon Power XS70 (with the big heat sink) for use with the Orico 40Gbps enclosure and it's run flawlessly. These have been used as external storage I share between an M1 Mac Studio running Sonoma and my hackintosh. I also have a ACASIS Tool-free 40Gbps enclosure.
I wanted to expand my SSD storage with external enclosures, so I bought 2 more Oricos and 2 more 4TB Silicon Power XS70s (though with a slim heat sink), and experienced many spontaneous disconnects. Returned the Silicon Powers, and bought 2 Acer Predator GM7000 (with reportedly flakey Innogrit IG5236 controller?). Same deal. I did a lot of testing of various permutations -- different combinations of enclosures, drives, and combinations -- 4 at a time, 3 at a time, 2, and 1 by itself. Testing usually comprised copying about 300GB of data from one drive to another.
Some combinations are worse than others, but it's generally the 2 new drives being written to would disconnect. Though occasionally the "known-good" older drive disconnecting however, and sometimes when it wasn't being read from or written-to.
As I mentioned, apparently this Innogrit IG5236 on the Predators is known to be problematic, but I don't know if my disconnects are a symptom of that issue (I had read data loss down the road). And of course it doesn't explain why the 2nd and 3rd Silicon Powers, identical except for the heat sink, were problematic and prone to spontaneous disconnect. And while it seemed like disconnects were usually associated with a drive that had previously been written to (since the last time the computer rebooted or the drive re-mounted), I don't know that writing to the drives was definitively the issue.
Anyway, I'm wondering what drives and enclosures folks have used for this kind of added storage, whether I need to watch out for certain controllers or even brands (Sounds like Samsung doesn't play well with Macs, or is that an over-generalization)? Does MacOS just not like seeing the same brand enclosures, maybe some sort of hardware ID conflict? or same drives, or what?
I've been trying to use ORICO NVMe SSD Enclosure 40Gbps enclosures with 4TB drives and have had mixed success. I first bought a 1TB WD_BLACK SN750I used with a slow-ish 10GBps ORICO enclosure, which has worked reliably. Then bought a 4TB Silicon Power XS70 (with the big heat sink) for use with the Orico 40Gbps enclosure and it's run flawlessly. These have been used as external storage I share between an M1 Mac Studio running Sonoma and my hackintosh. I also have a ACASIS Tool-free 40Gbps enclosure.
I wanted to expand my SSD storage with external enclosures, so I bought 2 more Oricos and 2 more 4TB Silicon Power XS70s (though with a slim heat sink), and experienced many spontaneous disconnects. Returned the Silicon Powers, and bought 2 Acer Predator GM7000 (with reportedly flakey Innogrit IG5236 controller?). Same deal. I did a lot of testing of various permutations -- different combinations of enclosures, drives, and combinations -- 4 at a time, 3 at a time, 2, and 1 by itself. Testing usually comprised copying about 300GB of data from one drive to another.
Some combinations are worse than others, but it's generally the 2 new drives being written to would disconnect. Though occasionally the "known-good" older drive disconnecting however, and sometimes when it wasn't being read from or written-to.
As I mentioned, apparently this Innogrit IG5236 on the Predators is known to be problematic, but I don't know if my disconnects are a symptom of that issue (I had read data loss down the road). And of course it doesn't explain why the 2nd and 3rd Silicon Powers, identical except for the heat sink, were problematic and prone to spontaneous disconnect. And while it seemed like disconnects were usually associated with a drive that had previously been written to (since the last time the computer rebooted or the drive re-mounted), I don't know that writing to the drives was definitively the issue.
Anyway, I'm wondering what drives and enclosures folks have used for this kind of added storage, whether I need to watch out for certain controllers or even brands (Sounds like Samsung doesn't play well with Macs, or is that an over-generalization)? Does MacOS just not like seeing the same brand enclosures, maybe some sort of hardware ID conflict? or same drives, or what?
