The lack of thermal pads is a big disappointment to me. I bought an Orico mSATA to USB 3.0 type-C enclosure earlier this year, and (with an OEM 840 Evo pulled from a laptop inside) it gets almost scarily hot while in use (as in it hurts to hold it for more than a few seconds). This seems to suffer the same problem. I don't understand how hard it is to ensure some decent thermal transfer from the SSD to the case ...
I wouldn't say burned, just that it was very uncomfortable to hold. And a thermal pad would help because it would make for more effective heat transfer, which means less trapped heat inside the case, which means lower temperatures overall. The case might reach the same temperatures, but the internals would then be cooler. Air is, after all, a very ineffective heat transfer material.
I'd like to see something to make use of PCIe M.2 devices to support the full speed of USB 3.1, perhaps with more than one slot to allow for a decent volume size. If the same device can also support Thunderbolt 3 for not too much greater expense that would be good, of course. Otherwise the performance is going to only be a fraction of what the SSD can do, like a a SATA SSD connected over USB 2.0.
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Chaitanya - Tuesday, December 13, 2016 - link
Its nice to see more and more external boxes adopting USB Type-C port.Valantar - Tuesday, December 13, 2016 - link
The lack of thermal pads is a big disappointment to me. I bought an Orico mSATA to USB 3.0 type-C enclosure earlier this year, and (with an OEM 840 Evo pulled from a laptop inside) it gets almost scarily hot while in use (as in it hurts to hold it for more than a few seconds). This seems to suffer the same problem. I don't understand how hard it is to ensure some decent thermal transfer from the SSD to the case ...QinX - Tuesday, December 13, 2016 - link
You burned your hand on the enclosure? How would a thermal pad help against that?Valantar - Wednesday, December 14, 2016 - link
I wouldn't say burned, just that it was very uncomfortable to hold. And a thermal pad would help because it would make for more effective heat transfer, which means less trapped heat inside the case, which means lower temperatures overall. The case might reach the same temperatures, but the internals would then be cooler. Air is, after all, a very ineffective heat transfer material.Xajel - Wednesday, December 14, 2016 - link
Why mSATA ?This should be M.2... And I think it can be a little smaller too
epobirs - Wednesday, December 14, 2016 - link
I'd like to see something to make use of PCIe M.2 devices to support the full speed of USB 3.1, perhaps with more than one slot to allow for a decent volume size. If the same device can also support Thunderbolt 3 for not too much greater expense that would be good, of course. Otherwise the performance is going to only be a fraction of what the SSD can do, like a a SATA SSD connected over USB 2.0.