Does an M.2 USB Hub exist?

[MikeyTaylorGaming]

I've just received 5x SSDs from a friend of mine and was wondering if there's anything like a USB HUB but for M.2 SSDs?

I know this is probably a stupid question, but it'd be awesome to have all off them accessible at all times rather than having 5 different enclosures/ swapping them between one enclosure if that makes sense?

Any help appreciated!

 

[Pleng]

You can get dual bay "raid" enclosures like this. But they're expensive and I wouldn't recommend using them in raid mode (jbod is fine for ssds). There may be 4 bay versions if you look around.

Are you using a desktop or laptop? You can get PCI express cards that accept 4 m.2 drives and they're a lot cheaper.

 

[Hayato213]

This can handle up to 4, but it doesn't seem they sell it in the UK

 

[MikeyTaylorGaming]

You can get dual bay "raid" enclosures like this. But they're expensive and I wouldn't recommend using them in raid mode (jbod is fine for ssds). There may be 4 bay versions if you look around.

Are you using a desktop or laptop? You can get PCI express cards that accept 4 m.2 drives and they're a lot cheaper.

Using laptop as I travel a lot for work! Appreciate that, shame it's so expensive. Can it be used just as 2 volumes or does it have to be Raid0?

Maybe it's worth me getting a decent USB3.2 HUB and 4 more enclosures to keep them all plugged in at once in a hidden location or something ahaha!

Do you have any suggestions on a 3.2 HUB? There's so many USB "3" advertised things on amazon and I'm pretty confident they're never 3.X

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This can handle up to 4, but it doesn't seem they sell it in the UK

Yeah that's exactly what I'm looking for! Definitely a shame it's not available in the UK

 

[Pleng]

Using laptop as I travel a lot for work! Appreciate that, shame it's so expensive. Can it be used just as 2 volumes or does it have to be Raid0?

I'm only really familiar with mechanical hard drive enclosures, but what you need to look out for in the specs is "operating modes", if jbod* is listed (usually at the end) theb you're golden.

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Do you have any suggestions on a 3.2 HUB? There's so many USB "3" advertised things on amazon and I'm pretty confident they're never 3.X

I'm not sure but maybe look for a "usb c dock". I guess they're usually 3.x but I honestly don't know. You'd need to check the specs.

You *can* get usb docks with a built in M.2 slot. So you could use that + 4 usb enclosures and there you have a 5 disk setup.