You won’t notice much of a difference between SATA and NVMe when using the drive via USB, and many people have spare SATA SSDs, so I’d just grab a USB to 2.5" SATA cable: a.co/d/dQ5QXR1. You don’t need an enclosure because the drive itself is already an enclosure.
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BombOmOm@lemmy.world 5 months ago
For running an OS off a USB drive, I would recommend getting a USB to M.2 enclosure and putting an M.2 drive in it. This will give you better performance than any flash drive out there. The memory they put into normal flash drives is just slow slow slow for the use case of an OS.
Example enclosure: bhphotovideo.com/…/sabrent_ec_snve_usb_3_2_type_c…
Example M.2 Drive to go in it: bhphotovideo.com/…/sabrent_sb_rocket_nvme4_1tb_1t…
dan@upvote.au 5 months ago
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Wow, I never considered using an M2 as an external. So obvious.
Brilliant!
nopersonalspace@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, I have one of those and it’s great but I need very little storage for this system (64g max) so I didn’t feel like it made sense in this case.
Cort@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You could go with a 2.5in SSD in a USB enclosure. I think OP was just suggesting this as the highest performance option.
dan@upvote.au 5 months ago
You won’t see much of a difference between SSD and NVMe (if at all) as the maximum speed for SATA (6Gbps) is higher than the maximum speed for USB 3.0 (5Gbps).
Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The M.2 enclosure I have gets extremely hot during periods of extended use like installing an OS or transferring large amounts of data. Not sure if it’s a problem with other enclosures, but it’s something to consider.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Check the chipset maker. If it’s JMicro that’s the problem, they suck. Look for something with Realtek or Asmedia chipset.
spez_@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Use a USB 3. Speed means nothing for open media vault