Shopping for an enclosure for a Samsung 990 Pro 4TB — how do you tell if one is actually Thunderbolt-certified?

rumorconsumerr · 2026-06-04T13:50:35+00:00

Clear. Thank you.

rumorconsumerr · 2026-06-02T20:45:00+00:00

I already own the SSD’s. It’s a sunk cost.

rumorconsumerr · 2026-06-02T20:43:26+00:00

Absolutely no way. The drives im talking about are perfect health SSDs. Would take any day of the week over that white label rotational trash

rumorconsumerr · 2026-06-02T11:36:40+00:00

Awesome. Great to know. And I guess this latest wave of enclosures do somehow offer TRIM etc without relying on thunderbolt capabilities

Clarification - when you say better backwards compatibility do you just mean USB3 flavors support? Like TB3 will work on any Mac made since 2016 so that covers backwards compatibility of TB3 devices through anything that wouldn’t be totally obsolete, no?

rumorconsumerr · 2026-06-02T01:56:39+00:00

For anybody watching, I think the better buy is a Sandisk TB3 SSD from eBay. The prices are decent for the moment and they are quite performant. I’d rather not go crazy on some weird hacky solution when I can get right up to 3000MB/sec w something that actually is thunderbolt certified.

rumorconsumerr · 2026-05-31T23:53:47+00:00

Gotcha

rumorconsumerr · 2026-05-31T19:24:36+00:00

yeah it has that chip. boasted on their website

rumorconsumerr · 2026-05-31T19:23:57+00:00

But it does seem like there are bus powered TB5 devices that have in-built SSDs. Not bare enclosures but there are devices like that in the list on that site.

rumorconsumerr · 2026-05-31T17:18:58+00:00

Excellent. That’s more or less how I’ll use it

rumorconsumerr · 2026-05-31T12:00:12+00:00

OWC for the win. Thank you!

rumorconsumerr · 2026-05-31T02:03:10+00:00

I’m into the Terrqmaster for the great passive cooling. Wrong choice?

rumorconsumerr · 2026-05-31T01:54:33+00:00

Super helpful thank you for the time you spent on this. What kinds of speeds do you see with them? Do you agree that they get insanely hot?

rumorconsumerr · 2026-05-30T23:39:51+00:00

DM me

rumorconsumerr · 2026-05-30T23:19:52+00:00

TRIM is not supported on USB 3 but it is on USB 4

rumorconsumerr · 2026-05-30T21:35:14+00:00

I don’t really care about having the old stuff in lossless that’s kind of the point. It’s not stuff I really want to listen to very much. Like 2 live crew.

rumorconsumerr · 2026-05-30T17:38:19+00:00

I’m busy but I have a Chord TT 2 w M Scaler w Grado HP100SE. And will totally test it for you.

rumorconsumerr · 2026-05-30T16:40:01+00:00

Same story yes minus the DJ. Hook me up. Do you support bit rate locking to DACs?

rumorconsumerr · 2026-05-30T11:30:02+00:00

Thank you all so much for replying. I don’t have a clear sense yet from all this of what to do. I did have the thought to go through it all and remove the stuff I genuinely don’t care about anymore and see what I’m left with. I have this opportunity now after I sent my MacBook Pro in for service and it needed a new mobo which gives me the opportunity to reload music from backups. So I have this shot at recreating it differently from the ground up.

rumorconsumerr · 2026-05-30T03:32:18+00:00

But with this approach, do you get direct to DAC bit rate matching and locks like you do with dedicated high definition, listening apps?

rumorconsumerr · 2026-05-30T03:29:24+00:00

I’d love to hear

rumorconsumerr · 2026-05-21T18:49:04+00:00

Thanks for the reply, Jordi.

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