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The standard you're looking for is UASP, which encapsulates raw SCSI commands over a USB connection. Most newer SATA enclosures should support it, they usually

The standard you're looking for is UASP, which encapsulates raw SCSI commands over a USB connection. Most newer SATA enclosures should support it, they usually mention UASP in the product description if they do, since it has better performance than the older style which emulated generic USB mass storage.

tentacleuno 3y ago
Ahh, Hacker News never fails to disappoint. Are there any ones you would recommend? A quick Amazon search yields a ton of rando-name products that I don't place much faith in -- the only brand name I could find was Sabrent[0], but that's only 2.5" and I suspect it's running the drive at 5v. My current one (which I believe is WD) has long since been liberated from its chassis, but it does have a separate 12/2 power supply as opposed to running the drive on the 5v USB connector. On a positive note, I very much suspect the USB-C connector of being miles better than the Micro USB 3.0 interface my current caddy uses. In my experience, a bit of external force can easily encourage the connector out of the port. > (and a random £15 caddy is obviously not going to provide very good competition.) P.S. re this, I can sort of understand it, as the caddy came with a drive -- they clearly had the opportunity to optimize away support for filesystems that they weren't pairing the caddy with. [0]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/SABRENT-enclosure-indicator-tool-free-EC-UASP/dp/B00OJ3UJ2S https://www.amazon.co.uk/SABRENT-enclosure-indicator-tool-fr...
- jsheard 3y ago
  How about this one from Sabrent? 3.5", USB-B, UASP, external 12v supply. https://www.amazon.co.uk/SABRENT-enclosure-indicator-tool-free-EC-DFLT/dp/B00LS5NFQ2 https://www.amazon.co.uk/SABRENT-enclosure-indicator-tool-fr...
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formerly_proven 3y ago
iirc there are/were still issues because SMART is part of ATA but not part of SCSI so you need an extra encapsulation layer - smartmontools has code to send special vendor-defined packets because of this.

tentacleuno 3y ago

Ahh, Hacker News never fails to disappoint. Are there any ones you would recommend? A quick Amazon search yields a ton of rando-name products that I don't place much faith in -- the only brand name I could find was Sabrent[0], but that's only 2.5" and I suspect it's running the drive at 5v. My current one (which I believe is WD) has long since been liberated from its chassis, but it does have a separate 12/2 power supply as opposed to running the drive on the 5v USB connector. On a positive note, I very much suspect the USB-C connector of being miles better than the Micro USB 3.0 interface my current caddy uses. In my experience, a bit of external force can easily encourage the connector out of the port. > (and a random £15 caddy is obviously not going to provide very good competition.) P.S. re this, I can sort of understand it, as the caddy came with a drive -- they clearly had the opportunity to optimize away support for filesystems that they weren't pairing the caddy with. [0]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/SABRENT-enclosure-indicator-tool-free-EC-UASP/dp/B00OJ3UJ2S https://www.amazon.co.uk/SABRENT-enclosure-indicator-tool-fr...

jsheard 3y ago
How about this one from Sabrent? 3.5", USB-B, UASP, external 12v supply. https://www.amazon.co.uk/SABRENT-enclosure-indicator-tool-free-EC-DFLT/dp/B00LS5NFQ2 https://www.amazon.co.uk/SABRENT-enclosure-indicator-tool-fr...

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formerly_proven 3y ago

iirc there are/were still issues because SMART is part of ATA but not part of SCSI so you need an extra encapsulation layer - smartmontools has code to send special vendor-defined packets because of this.