People who like digital will be more or less interested in DIY, and I have wondered for a long time whether there is any device that can "package" the internal hard disk and use it as a mobile hard disk? Later, I came into contact with more digital products, and found that there are really this type of product, which is today's protagonist, the hard disk box.
There are more classifications of hard disks, if you divide according to the size and interface of the hard disk, there are mainly 3.5 inches, 2.5 inches and M.2 interfaces. If you divide from the hard disk shell and the main control chip, the hard disk box can be divided into high, medium and low prices. The Orec hard disk enclosure that I experience with you today is a high-end NVMe SSD enclosure belonging to the M.2 interface. Therefore, when we choose the hard disk box, we must pay attention to its interface and protocol, that Orec, for example, it supports the M-Key protocol and B+M-Key protocol of the M.2 interface, in other words, Orrick supports the vast majority of M.2 interface NVMe SSDs, but does not support M.2 interface SATA SSDs.
From the pricing point of view of Orrick, we can see that it belongs to a high-end hard disk box, in many aspects inside and outside can show that it and the ordinary one or two hundred hard disk box has a great difference, for example, we are relatively easy to feel the appearance of the fuselage, the first time we see Orrick, in the design you can feel its hardcore technology wind design style, and then when you pick it up, you will feel that the entire hard disk box is very "weighty", and then the entire fuselage feels very hard, The general bumps and bumps do not cause any harm to it at all, and the look and feel of Oreo gives people have a lot to do with the aluminum alloy fuselage material it uses.
The body material of the hard disk box has two important effects on it, one is physical protection, and the other is the heat dissipation effect. The aluminum alloy made by Orrick is first of all relatively strong, and secondly, it has also been sandblasted anodized, which can effectively resist daily collision and wear. Moreover, the front of the hard disk enclosure also adopts a texture similar to the veins of the leaves, so that people can increase the friction when holding it to prevent falling. In addition, another highlight of the aluminum alloy material is the excellent heat dissipation effect, in addition to making the hard disk box less hot to use, it can also make the hard disk maintain stability for a long time when running, unlike the plastic hard disk box, the running time is long or high load operation will fall.
Another major cost of the hard disk enclosure is the PCB panel and the main control chip, especially the main control chip, which has a decisive impact on the external output speed of the hard disk box. Orrick's dual high-level master chip solution supports UASP protocol, TRM, Smart functions, fully compatible with Raiden 4, Raiden 3, USB4.0, USB3.2, 3.1, 3.0 interfaces, and standard with 2 40Gbps data lines, that is to say, Orrick's external output speed can be as high as 40Gbps.
Having said all that about Oreo's difference, it was then its turn to be installed and used. In addition to the enclosure body, OREC is equipped with screwdriver*1, screw*1, silicone sticker*1, USB A-C cable*1, USB-C-C cable*1.
With the free screwdriver, we easily opened the shell of Oreoco, then put the NVMe SSD we tested on both sides of the interface, and then put the free silicone sleeve on the SSD, and then installed the back cover.
Once installed, we connected the enclosure to the computer and prepared to test its transfer speed. It is worth noting that the speed of the SSD on the hard disk box is not determined by some aspect alone, but by the speed of the SSD, the speed of the hard disk box and the interface specifications of the computer side. Therefore, we want to get a better speed experience, and the interface on the computer side can choose the interface of Raiden 3 or 4.
Some hard disks are initially used on Orrick, to partition it, select the target hard disk on "This Computer - Management - Disk Management", and then partition it and format it so that it can be officially used.
The NVMe SSD used in this test is Pucote's M9P Plus (256GB), the test software is the classic hard disk read and write test software CDM, orrick ran out of the sequential read speed is 3027.63MB / s, the sequential write speed is 840.85MB / s, in terms of reading speed, Orecco has been very close to the M9P Plus (256GB) official peak speed.
After experiencing Orrick for a period of time, I found that Oreo is "expensive" and has its own expensive reason, after multiple processes to polish the aluminum alloy fuselage shell, which is both wear-resistant and collision-proof, and the heat dissipation effect is good. The dual main control chip ensures the transmission speed of the hard disk box, of which the peak speed can reach about 40Gbps, which is faster than many mobile solid-state drives. Therefore, in general, it is very good to use Orec to build with idle NVMe SSDs, which are convenient to use and can enjoy the extremely fast read and write of built-in NVMe.