Quick Look: ORICO M2PAC3-G20 NVMe Enclosure

[Darksaber]

With its 20 Gbps interface, the ORICO M2PAC3-G20 aims to be a functional enclosure that is fast enough to get the most out of mainstream PCIe 3x4 NVME drives. With its simple but effective design, the housing will also act as a heatsink to keep the drive cool under heavy loads, all while targeting an affordable price point.

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[InVasMani]

Test setup to use the adapter card made me die a little inside to see. Fully functional, but hell of a compromise to make for 20Gbps USB-C. You could use this nicely a Samsung Galaxy S20+ with it's USB-C connection, but I can't really think of a practical use for the speed or storage capacity and the latter is covered pretty well by the microSD slot. The former is kind of covered pretty nicely by the internal storage as well that's fairly quick.

Looks nice for laptops with a USB-C 20Gbps output though. Paired with squid cache you can have a pretty portable internet. I wonder how well you might get by entirely with a active internet subscription in such a scenario and just use WIFI hot spots.

 

[Wooden Law - Black]

Do you know the temperature of the SSD during benchmark? I’m interested about it.

 

[Valantar]

Great to see another USB SSD case that doesn't use the thermally catastrophic slide-in mounting method, but rather lets the drive have actually useful contact with the case. Speeds look good too!

Test setup to use the adapter card made me die a little inside to see. Fully functional, but hell of a compromise to make for 20Gbps USB-C. You could use this nicely a Samsung Galaxy S20+ with it's USB-C connection, but I can't really think of a practical use for the speed or storage capacity and the latter is covered pretty well by the microSD slot. The former is kind of covered pretty nicely by the internal storage as well that's fairly quick.

I doubt many people will be using that in an ITX system, but for testing you use what you have. The speed will be useful for anyone working with photos and video, as transfer times (and especially working on a library stored externally) are crucial there. Depending on the drive and file sizes you might be bottlenecked by NAND performance, but at least that's better than being further bottlenecked by the drive enclosure. Not much else though - it might speed up load times for an external game library fractionally, but it's unlikely to be noticeable at all.