Sunday, April 2, 2023

SATA SSDs that changed their specs #1

 



Silicon Power Ace A55 256GB SATA SSD
Compare the pictures with those in this review: SILICON POWER ACE A55 256GB SSD REVIEW
I wonder who controls what those companies sell

Saturday, March 25, 2023

Orico M.2 NVMe enclosure that somewhat works #2


This is Orico M.2 NVMe M-Key 10Gbps Space Gray MM2C3-G2-GY that works on USB3 5Gbps ports but is not stable at 10Gbps. Even after firmware update which cannot be found on their site, it constantly connects/disconnects on 10Gbps ports (Type-C and Type-A)

Friday, March 24, 2023

Orico HDD/SATA enclosure that works #1



Chip is VIA VL716-Q4
This works - no disconnects connected to USB3.x and USB2.0 ports, SMART status data is also visible

 

Thursday, March 23, 2023

Orico enclosures in a nutshell

 Seems Orico (Leading Technology as stated on the product's box) continues to sell broken products. In this case their 2521U3 2.5" hard drive enclosure when connected to USB3 ports of different machines (two desktops, 4 laptops) cannot be used - nonstop connect/disconnect Windows sound. And the chip used  in the enclosure is ASM22xx. TLDR; 5Gbps not possible with this enclosure when connected to USB3, but perfectly stable at USB2

This enclosure is my 5th from Orico, only two of them work as expected (based on the claims printed on the box)