NVMe Hot Swap adapter

[HCHTech]

One of my Google alerts showed me THIS today. Another possible solution to read/backup/clone client drives. Interesting.

 

[Larry Sabo]

It seems to hold just one NVMe M.2 drive, if I'm not mistaken. I don't see the advantage over using two USB-NVMe adapters to clone data to a new, larger NVMe M.2 drive. It would be more convenient perhaps for backing up or imaging NVMe drives to a SATA drive though, or for data back-ups. At $83.20 ($106.62 CAD), it's not inexpensive.

Edit: I don't see how it's hot-swapable (they don't mention that it is). If it's not, -1 points for convenience vs USB.

 

[Markverhyden]

To be honest if I had the volume to justify I'd get two cards. PCIe bus is much faster than USB.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Interesting but having to access the back of the PC to change out the SSD drives would be a PITA. The same company sells some drive bay adapters but they all require Mini SAS bus connectors. So you'd have to get a SAS (probably RAID) card to talk to it.

 

[Sky-Knight]

That company has solutions for bay mounted stuff too.

 

[nlinecomputers]

That company has solutions for bay mounted stuff too.

Yep, it would be awesome for servers.

 

[Markverhyden]

Interesting but having to access the back of the PC to change out the SSD drives would be a PITA. The same company sells some drive bay adapters but they all require Mini SAS bus connectors. So you'd have to get a SAS (probably RAID) card to talk to it.

Not sure about others but back when I was doing a lot of bench work my bench PC would be at the back of the work surface, open side facing me, front facing right and back facing left. So access was no problem.

 

[Big Jim]

I'll stick to USB for now. have used our NVME > USB adapter a handful of times.
Obviously that is likely to change as the technology matures.

For sure the bay-mounted 2.5" and 3.5" hot swap bays are a must, so I can see an M.2 equivalent becoming a requirement at some point to.
And already using a SAS card in our imaging machine as well.

 

[xrobwx71]

Thanks for the heads up, I think I'll get one of these for the Server at work.