NVMe SSD performance is limited by the USB 3 interface rather than the SSD specifications, using high performance NVMe SSDs with poor thermal management is not recommended. Performing the following steps will destroy all data on the disk selected, so these steps must be performed with extreme caution. Most end-users won’t need to worry about drive sector sizes, partition alignment, or any of the details above. Due to the specific issues documented by Microsoft with some of their enterprise applications, thorough planning for drive purchasing and migration is crucial in enterprise environments leveraging the following technologies: The output will look like this, with the bold portion below being the relevant information. Bytes per Sector of 512 and bytes per Physical Sector of 4096 indicate a 512e drive: Here are some of the best NVMe USB Adapters or Enclosures for use with laptops and PC. Sabrent NVMe & SATA SSD USB 3.2 Type-C Enclosure

I also have a couple Orico drives with fans, but those are just overkill and mostly for show. They do work, just big and require tools to swap drives. There’s also a small, built-in battery that provides 5-10 seconds (depending on which model you get) of service time in the event of a power failure. That brief window of time might be enough to allow the drive to finish writing some data and avoid corrupting your drive in the event of an ill-timed unplugging. echo 'ACTION=="add|change", ATTRS{idVendor}=="174c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1153", SUBSYSTEM=="scsi_disk", ATTR{provisioning_mode}="unmap"' | sudo tee --append /etc/udev/rules.d/10-uas-discard.rules USBC-SATA24: 2.5-inch SATA SSD TRIM A relatively cheaper budget NVME Enclosure USB Adapter that supports up to M.2 2280 size solid state drives. It is only compatible with NVMe or PCI-E SSDs and does not support M.2 SATA and M.2 PCI-E AHCI SSDs. It uses a USB Type-C interface and is compatible with Thunderbolt 3.0. It can support up to 10 Gbps bandwidth when using the high-speed interface. The device uses an aluminum enclosure that helps in some kind of heat dissipation but nothing too great. A blue LED is present on the unit that indicates data transfer activity. A USB Type-C to USB Type-A male cable is included for using it with USB Type-A ports. The operating systems that are supported are Windows 7/ 8/ 8.1/ 10/ Linux/ MAC. Optionally, this output can be saved to a file using the following: `sudo smartctl --all /dev/sd n> ~/smartdata.txt` for detailed examination

From here the disk is blank and can be re-initialized and formatted with whatever partitions are desired. Most consumers will not need to be aware of the other issues that can arise with Advanced Format volumes in enterprise applications. Partition Alignment echo 'ACTION=="add|change", ATTRS{idVendor}=="174c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="55aa", SUBSYSTEM=="scsi_disk", ATTR{provisioning_mode}="unmap"' | sudo tee --append /etc/udev/rules.d/10-uas-discard.rules USBC-NVME: USBC-NVME Enclsoure This is one of the most performant 10 Gbps enclosures and one of the most convenient, thanks to a tool-free design that allows you to slip the cover off by pressing a spring-loaded switch. It's a few dollars more than the Sabrent EC-SNVE at present and we prefer that enclosure's flip-up lid to the Plugble's slide-out one.

Select the USB connected SSD from the list and then press the "Optimize" button to manually start trim Which form factor? You have to get an SSD enclosure that matches the physical size of your drive. If you have a 2.5-inch hard drive or SSD, get a 2.5-inch SATA enclosure. For a 3.5-inch hard drive, you’ll need a 3.5-inch SATA enclosure. M.2 SSDs require M.2 enclosures, but be careful if your SSD is shorter than the standard 2280 (80mm size); most but not all enclosures have mounting screws for the shorter sizes. Also, if you plan to use an M.2 SATA SSD, as opposed to an NVMe one, make sure that the enclosure supports that standard instead (or in addition), because most M.2 enclosures are NVMe only. The Sabrent EC-USASP has an on / off switch, something you won’t find on most SSD enclosures but a nice convenience if you want to leave it plugged in but only power it on when you need it. Most 2.5-inch SATA enclosures have USB 3.0 micro B as their output port and come with USB Type-A to micro B cables. However, the EC-USASP has a USB 3 Type-A port (5 Gbps) and comes with a Type-A to Type-A cable. So, if you are planning to connect the enclosure to a laptop that has only Type-C ports, you can use a USB Type-A to Type-C cable (something many people have lying around the house) to do so. How fast? Enclosures can only handle as much speed as their USB ports and the USB ports on your computer allow. Most 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch hard drive / SSD enclosures operate under standard 5 Gbps USB (USB 3 / 3.1 or 3.2 Gen 1). Most M.2 SSD enclosures operate at 10 Gbps (aka USB 3.1 or USB 3.2 Gen 2).Modern Linux distributions support the TRIM and DEALLOCATE commands for SATA SSDs and NVMe SSDs respectively, for simplicity we will refer to these two commands as Trim in this article. Macs should also be able to see the volume with no issue, however do not have native NTFS write capabilities, so they may only be able to read the drive. Installation instructions in the "USBC-NVME Realtek Firmware Update Instructions EN.pdf" and translated to Japanese in the "USBC-NVME Realtek Firmware Update Instructions JA.pdf" included in the zip file. This firmware update utility is only compatible with Microsoft Windows operating systems. Specific requirements are listed in the following section. Run only applications and hardware that support these drives. Most of the modern-day laptops that come with an SSD have NVMe SSD in them. It is because NVMe drives are much smaller and can easily fit in laptops, especially the slim ones that are becoming more and more popular these days. Also, in laptops that come with both SSD and HDD, an NVMe SSD is the only practical solution because nowadays laptops are becoming slimmer and they do not have that much space to accommodate two 2.5-inch drives. In such laptops, NVMe SSD is the boot drive where the operating system is installed. In today’s era, buying a laptop without an SSD is the biggest mistake you can make because even if you have a good processor and enough RAM, a traditional mechanical hard drive (HDD) can make your laptop sluggish on modern operating systems like Windows 10. An SSD is much faster than a hard drive and can even bring an older dead slow laptop to life if you upgrade its hard drive to SSD, 2.5-inch SATA SSD in this case because most older laptops do not have M.2 slot with NVMe support.