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I've got a Shinestar NVMe enclosure, but it tops out around 1GB and I know these drives go faster when plugged directly into an M2 slot. I have been unsuccessful in getting support from Dell on installing this, so I am turning to the community for help. Cheap PNY 8GB commodity drive. Thing was so damned slow I changed it to 512GB and only ran 1 pass. Thats not a mistake, the random write tests are slow low as to not even register. RND4KQ32T16 is something like .0003MB/s. Basically, if you are installing it into an external USB enclosure the fastest drive isn't worth much. The quality of the USB enclosure provides more of a boost than the fastest NVMe drive will.
Enclosure (M.2) - USB M.2 SATA PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
When you install the kit 750-ADBF necessary to upgrade to the M.2 NVMe SSDs, you will wind up with two (2) front flex Bay positions that will support a M.2 module (Kit 575-BBSH). What I found was that you now have two (2) flex bay positions that will not recognize SATA or SAS Hard drives. (I had three SATA hard drives installed and one empty flex bay position). Now I can only use two of the flex bay positions for the SATA hard drives. If you install a SATA HDD module in one of these front flex bays configured for M.2 module, you get a flashing amber LED on the flex bay "door" and the SATA drive is not shown in Computer Management.
Since I finally got these benches done. Here's the comparison of the same drives internally installed vs external. Generally if the drive is readable I'll boot off a custom WinPE disk I built and run USMT to salvage the user profile data to a compressed MIG store. Then I'll replace the drive or laptop, re-image, and restore the salvaged profile. So the faster the drive is the faster I can complete these tasks. Which makes users happier. I've been using a M2 Sata enclosure, but I also have 2.5" external cables that let me plug a 2.5" directly into a USB port. I actually did a bunch cause it I was a bit bored at work. I did a Sandisk Extreme 64GB, Sandisk Ultra Flare 32GB, Samsung EVO 850 1TB 2.5", Intel SSD Pro 2500 256GB SATA too. All enclosures had nearly the same speeds. Enough that I wouldn't care one way or the other about it. You are limited to about 1050MB/s read & write for sequential files. I'm aware and wishing all our systems had TB3. My home machine is a MacPro with TB2, and my work laptop is a 2018 MacBook Pro.
M.2 NVME NGFF SSD Enclosure Adapter, Tool-free Lemorele M.2 NVME NGFF SSD Enclosure Adapter, Tool-free
HEDT: i9 10980XE @ 4.9 gHz, 64GB @ 3600mHz CL14 G.Skill Trident-Z DDR4, 2x Nvidia Titan RTX NVLink SLI, Corsair AX1600i, Samsung 960 Pro 2TB OS/apps, Samsung 850 EVO 4TB media, LG 38GL950G-B monitor, Drop CTRL keyboard, Decus Respec mouse Dell Precision Workstation 5820 / 7820 / 7920 PCIe NVMe FlexBay Slots Will Not Detect SATA / SAS Drives NOTE:Even though Dell Hosted Images have USB3 drivers slip streamed in, they may not include the IRST driver (also known as the F6 driver). As a result, the IRST driver must be applied manually during the Windows install process. The last enclosure I bought was the TDBT M.2 NVMe enclosure. Like the Shinestar this also uses the JMS583, and despite the inclusion of a larger case, and a heat spreader with thermal pad, it runs slightly hotter than the Tripp-lite unit, but not uncomfortably so. I assume the heat spreader is doing its job and spreading the heat, and the larger enclosure has more surface area to absorb/dissipate heat. I'll be using it as work drives. Storing photo's (also when shooting tethered directly to the drive), transferring footage from camera card to the drive and might ocassionally edit using that drive.https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/sln312251/upgrading-storage-in-the-dell-precision-5820-7820-7920-tower-workstations?lang=en The items to be concerned about are Stability & Heat. I have found that the one ASM2362 chipset runs significantly cooler than the JMT chipsets. How do I install the little box box this person is inserting into this computer. I need to access the nvme controller of a precision 5820 in the flex bay. Just like in the picture, just like in the video. http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/visiontek-pro-solid-state-drive-500-gb-internal-m2-2280-pci-express-31-x4-nvme/apd/aa133375/storage-drives-media Gaming Rig: i9 9900ks @ 5.2ghz, 32GB @ 4000mHz CL17 G.Skill Trident-Z DDR4, EVGA RTX 2080 Ti Kingpin, Corsair HX1200, Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB, Asus PG348Q monitor, Corsair K70 LUX RGB keyboard, Corsair Ironclaw mouse
M.2 SATA SSD Enclosure, M2 NGFF (not NVMe) to USB C UGREEN M.2 SATA SSD Enclosure, M2 NGFF (not NVMe) to USB C
And finally, just to rub salt in the wound, Dell produced this guide for upgrading the storage on your 5820/7820/7920 with the above listed parts even though they apparently have no intention of selling them to you. https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln312251/upgrading-storage-in-the-dell-precision-5820-7820-7920-tower-workstations?lang=en The drive you install (Samsung EVO, Intel 760p, etc....) has more impact on the speed than the enclosure does. This module contains - 1.M.2 Carrier; 2.Thermal Pads; 3.M.2 3.5" Module Bay; 4.Capacity Label sheet for M.2 CarrierThere is an updated storage driver (IRST F6) to include PCIE support. (to enable Windows to recognize the drive during installation):
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