An external SSD rack for m.2 brought to you by ORINCO

It's called ORICO Lucian

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Today I've had the opportunity to play around and test an m.2 SSD rack

Basically this rack can be used with any type of SDD,an ordinary m.2 SSD or an NVMe one

In the included box besides the rack itself you will also find 2 cables

One USB C to USB C cable because the rack itself is has and USB type C input

and one USB type C to USB type A cable,3.0 and 3.1 iteration

Nonetheless I feel like I have to mention that I've tested it and things are a little bit questionable

I've begun by removing the rack from its box and assembling the SSD inside of it

It's quite a simple process

Basically the top part of the rack has to be slid slightly forwards

Subsequently remove the PCB from the rack itself

Yes,it's a stupid design

Basically the case itself only has some platic clips and no screws

Honestly I don't how secure this mechanism will be in time,but for now it seems to hold the SSD in place firmly

Once you've opened the rack and placed the SSD inside of it,try to fasten the washer and screw behind the PCB

It's a very counter-intuitive way of doing things

Initially I attempted to mount it the usual way by screwing it in place from the top

Nope,only afterwards did I realize that in fact the screw is holding the washer in place which is holding the PCB itself in place

Anyway...

It's quite a simple process once you know how everything works

Basically the SSD is held in place on the PCB by that washer

It's a very questionable way of doing things

You'll also find 2 thermal pads provided in the box which helps the radiator that's mounted on top of the rack to transfer heat efficiently away from the SSD's cips

However be careful with the placing of the thermal pads,make sure all of the SSD's cips are covered and making contact

If you're not careful not all the cips will be cooled adequately and that may cause problems in the future

I initially placed the thermal pads in a diamond shape and used a square shape on my second mounting because I ended up testing the rack with two different SSD's

I'm going to tell you in a bit why I ended up testing two different SSD's

The preliminary test was conducted using an SSD made by Seagate,more specifically a Seagate BarraCuda Q5 with 2 TB of memory

The test was conducted using the USB type C TO USB type A cable both on a MAC and also on two different computers that were using Windows

I've experienced somewhere in the neighbourhood of 400mb write and read speeds

In other words some typcal external SSD's speeds

I was getting the exact speeds on this SUREFIRE SSD

Once we've connected the rack provided by ORINCO

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Once we've connected the rack using the USB type C to USB type C cable both on a ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 and also on my desktop

The read speed remained the same (around 400mb) but the write speed climbed to allmost 1000mb

And this made made me wonder....what's the dead with these limitations?

So...I disassembled the rack and ran the same tests using and Intel SSD

An SSD which I know for a fact it operates at quite high speeds,somewhere around 3000mb read speeds and 2000mb in write speeds so it's quite a fast SSD

Using this Intel NVMe SSD this rack provided by ORINCO

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Using this Intel NVMe in the rack operated at the corect speeds(1000/1000) specified on it's box

I removed the current SSD and switched it back with the Seagate one believing that I must've done something wrong

And one again ran the same tests and received the same results 400/1000mb in read/write speeds

So be careful what kind of SSD you're planning to use with this rack

The rack operates at the specified speeds only when using and USB type C to USB type C cable and provided you have an SSD that can reach the specified speeds

If you're using a slower SSD like an NVMe one then the rack will operate at slower speeds

The same goes for those cases in which you're using the USB type C to USB type A cable,it's going to operate at a slower speed

As some final conclusions,the platic is easily scratchable

The radiator is pretty small but it does a decent job at transferring heat

Unfortunately the informations from the SSD's sensors are not passed along

The Realtek controller featured on this rack does not pass along the sensor information

Basically it's not possible to determine the internal temperature of an SSD

Even so there's nothing to worry about if you're using an SSD that features read/write speeds of 2000/1000

Don't waste your money by mounting an PCIe 4.0 SSD in this rack,there's no point in it

As I stated before just use one that dosen't exceed read/write speeds about 2000/1000 and verything will be just fine

It's pretty pricy for the quality that it offers but

If you are in the need of an external SSD with higher speeds that a normal SATA one this rack is a cheaper alternative and quite adequate solution

It's your decision to make

And that about wraps it up

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