Thunderbolt 3 External Enclosure for NVMe/SSD Drive?

There’s a “gotcha” with that device. From the second review for it:

Each of the 4 m.2 pcnvme slots have only 1 pci express lane. This means that the drive in the slot is limited to 8Gbit transfer speeds.

If you populate all 4 slots and use the included softraid software you will be able to reach the announced speed of 2600Mbyte/sec speed but with fewer drives you will loose out on speed.

So if you want speed you’ve got to commit softraid 0 and to 4 NVMes off the bat, which in turn makes incremental upgrading not really possible.

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