Hello everyone, I'm Karl, a computer and digital enthusiast, a regular graduate student.
I often talk to you about which laptop products are worth buying, how to buy the value of buying, thanks to everyone's love, the popularity and response of related articles are good.
However, today's thin and light laptops are becoming more and more integrated, and there are often no free hard drive slots to expand, and some computers even directly integrate flash memory particles on the motherboard (such as the entire MacBook series), want a large capacity? Gotta add money!
Friends who are familiar with me know that I have never been a "money party", buying things, recommending very much about ** and experience, compared to spending 5400 to upgrade a computer's hard disk to 2TB, spending less than 1000 to group a high-performance mobile hard disk is obviously more horizontal.
This article starts from my own actual experience, and I will talk to you about the Greenlink USB4 hard disk enclosure that I recently purchased, and talk about the ultimate experience of transferring 3G files in seconds.
As mentioned earlier, self-organized portable SSDs are a very cost-effective option, and the SSD can be easily expanded by packing the SSD in a hard drive enclosure and connecting to the device via a USB cable. According to the interface type of the SSD enclosure, it can be simply classified as follows:
usb3.0:6Gbps bandwidth, commonly found in SATA SSD enclosures, is basically enough to meet the needs of file backup, games, and low-spec** editing, but it may be difficult to read images in large games.
usb3.2Gen2: 10Gbps bandwidth, mainstream specifications in the market, enough to meet the needs of file backup, games, and editing of mainstream specifications.
Thunderbolt USB4: 40Gbps bandwidth (32Gbps data transmission bandwidth), the strongest specification on the market, 3G files in seconds, basically PCIe30x4 speed enough to handle the vast majority of use cases, including high-spec editing.
As a computer digital enthusiast who pursues the ultimate experience, the Thunderbolt 4 interface mobile hard disk enclosure is naturally the best choice.
The packaging box of the Greenlink USB4 mobile hard drive case is very beautiful, with a black theme color, and there are product renderings on the front and the main selling points are marked.
On the back is the product specification sheet and other information.
Included in the package is a USB4 cable, a USB A-to-C cable, a screwdriver, spare screws, a silicone grease thermal pad, and an installation manual. Note that a Thunderbolt USB4 cable is required to achieve the nominal rate of the Thunderbolt USB4 interface.
The green USB4 hard disk case is made of dark gray gold with a metal body, which is very beautiful and textured; The fuselage is protected by a silicone frame sleeve to reduce damage caused by bumps.
It's highly compatible, supports M and other specs, and the built-in turbofan provides good heat dissipation, making it more than capable of handling high-performance NVMe SSDs.
It uses a Type-C interface connection and is fully compatible with Thunderbolt 4 3 and USB32/3.1/3.0/2.0. Support Mac OS, Windows and Linux systems, and connect to mobile phones, tablets, NAS, computers and other devices.
The Greenlink USB4 hard disk enclosure adopts a quadruple heat dissipation system of main control SSD dual heat dissipation sticker + all-aluminum body + hollow heat dissipation hole + built-in turbo fan to ensure the stable performance of strong performance.
One of the highlights of the Greenlink USB4 hard disk enclosure is its strong performance, which can be used with USB4 or Thunderbolt 4 interface to transfer 3G files in seconds! The highly versatile Type-C interface also has very good device compatibility, and I tested it with a few computers I had on hand:
Legion R9000P 2023, full-featured Type-C interface, USB32Gen2 specification, data transmission 10Gbps
Legion Blade 9000K, motherboard Type-C port, USB32Gen2x2 specification, included in high-end computer motherboards, 20Gbps data transfer bandwidth.
LG GRA16 2022, Thunderbolt 4 interface, same as USB4 specification, 40Gbps bandwidth, of which the data transmission bandwidth is 32Gbps
In the DiskMark test, the USB4 hard disk enclosure of Greenlink basically reached the upper limit of the transmission of their respective interfaces
Connect USB3The transfer speed of the 2Gen2 interface is basically 1000MB s
Connect USB3The transfer speed of the 2Gen2x2 interface is basically 2000MB s
When connected to the Thunderbolt 4 interface, the read speed can reach 3760MB S+, and the write speed is also nearly 3000MB s
The performance of the Greenlink USB4 mobile hard disk enclosure is really strong: the Thunderbolt 4 specification interface can transfer 3G files in 1 second, compared with USB32gen2、usb3.0 interface performance is far ahead! Powerful performance results in an almost unlimited experience, which is a boon for content creators. The results of the official BlackmagicDesign Disk Speed Test are sufficient for 12K60p editing of Blackmagic RAW** files.
In the case of the built-in classic domestic solution (Yangtze River Storage Particles + Lianyun 1602 main controller, read speed 7300MB s+, write speed 6300MB s+) SSD, the temperature at full speed with the Thunderbolt 4 interface is only 45 degrees Celsius, which is only a few degrees higher than the system disk in the standby state, which is really excellent! This means that the Greenlink USB4 hard disk enclosure can continue to play the excellent performance of high-performance SSDs stably!
Greenlink USB4 hard disk enclosure is a product with excellent appearance and workmanship, and the ultimate performance experience, which can expand the capacity of Mac and other computers, and the experience when processing its Chinese parts may even be better than the internal hard disk (in the disk speed test, the hard disk read and write speed of the Macbook Air M2 is only 1500MB S), which is very suitable for content creators and digital product lovers to buy, really do big things with little money, and enjoy the ultimate performance experience.