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RTL9210 NVMe Enclosure Firmware Update

By now I have 2 of those Ugreen M.2 NVMe USB 3.2 SSD enclosures. One of them is attached to my DELL monitor which is attached to my MacBook Pro M1 for TimeMachine backups and just works™ for almost 4 months now. I’ve recently bought a second one (and also the same SSD as in… Read More »

Realtek RTL9210 and TRIM

I’ve recently started buying M.2 drives instead of traditional 2.5” SSDs. For USB enclosures I went with a UGREEN M.2 NVMe USB3.2 Gen2 enclosure that comes with all the bells and whistles. They have a Realtek RTL9210 chip which does support the “discard” or TRIM operation to mark unused space on the SSD. However, some… Read More »