Introduction<\/h2>\n\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
TerraMaster D1 SSD Pro is an enclosed M.2 NVMe SSD that can turn a standard internal SSD into a solid and high-performance portable SSD. The idea behind this enclosure is to provide the performance of today’s 80 Gbps-class SSD enclosures without the need for active fan-based cooling. The enclosure instead uses its chunky, wheeled body to slowly cool even the fastest SSDs. The enclosure supports 80 Gbps Thunderbolt 5 and USB4 V2 connections, and is backward compatible with 40 Gbps USB4 and Thunderbolt 3\/4, as well as older USB generations to USB 2.0. The enclosure has an LED that lets you know you’re using an 80 Gbps capable interface by glowing white. This LED turns amber when using an interface faster than 80 Gbps. <\/p>\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSSD enclosures are usually made by companies that specialize in consumer flash devices, such as SSD manufacturers themselves, or those that specialize in storage solutions, such as NAS, DAS, or drive enclosures. The TerraMaster is the latter type. Why this is important is that the latter type often sees storage as a solution rather than a product. NAS devices tend to come with extensive browser-based integrations and tools for organizing, protecting, and backing up your data. The TerraMaster D1 SSD Pro is one such product. TerraMaster includes TPC Backupper, a powerful utility that allows you to synchronize your entire PC, choose what you want to back up, and merge your local disks, including their partition tables and volumes, regardless of their file systems.<\/p>\n
TerraMaster D1 SSD Pro can accommodate one M.2-2280 SSD with PCIe (NVMe) interface. It connects the SSD via a PCI-Express 4.0 x4 host interface (64 Gbps per direction), connecting it upstream using the Intel JHL9480 “Barlow Ridge” bridge chip. With an upstream bandwidth of 80 Gbps, the enclosure is capable of increasing the performance of any M.2 Gen 4 SSD. It also supports Gen 5 SSDs, which will pretend to be plugged into a Gen 4 M.2 slot. <\/p>\n
The JHL9480 chip physically only outputs PCIe Gen 4 x4, so there is no possibility of higher performance for Gen 5 SSDs that use the 120 Gbps bandwidth mode of Thunderbolt 5. You still get 80 Gbps, which is twice as much as Thunderbolt 4 and USB4 (V1). To test the drive, we used an ASUS ThunderboltEX 5 add-in card that was properly installed and configured on a supported ASUS Intel Z890 chipset motherboard, with a Core Ultra 7 “Arrow Lake-S” CPU. Currently, this is the only way you get 80 Gbps from a Type-C port using Windows. The only other platforms with Thunderbolt 5 are Macs and MacBooks based on Apple’s M4 (or later), which have been out since 2024. For testing, we used the Samsung 990 PRO 1 TB, one of the fastest Gen 4 NVMe SSDs at launch.<\/p>\n
TerraMaster is selling the D1 SSD Pro enclosure for an introductory price of US$199.<\/p>\n
\n\n\n\nTerraMaster D1 SSD Pro Enclosure<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \nBrand:<\/th>\n TerraMaster<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \nModel:<\/th>\n D1 SSD Pro Enclosure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \nPower:<\/th>\n No drive included (up to 8 TB supported)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \nAdministrators:<\/th>\n Intel JHL9480 “Barlow Ridge”
JMicron JMS583
Analogix ANX7415
Analogix ANX7406<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \nDimensions:<\/th>\n 121 mm \u00d7 58 mm \u00d7 37 mm (H\u00d7W\u00d7D)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \nWeight:<\/th>\n 300 g, 10.6 oz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \nInterface:<\/th>\n Thunderbolt 5 and USB4 V2, 80 Gbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \nSSD interface:<\/th>\n IM.2-2280 with PCI-Express 4.0 x4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \nGuarantee:<\/th>\n Two years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \nPrice on Time
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TerraMaster D1 SSD Pro is an enclosed M.2 NVMe SSD that can turn a standard internal SSD into a solid and high-performance portable SSD. The idea behind this enclosure is to provide the performance of today’s 80 Gbps-class SSD enclosures without the need for active fan-based cooling. The enclosure instead uses its chunky, wheeled body to slowly cool even the fastest SSDs. The enclosure supports 80 Gbps Thunderbolt 5 and USB4 V2 connections, and is backward compatible with 40 Gbps USB4 and Thunderbolt 3\/4, as well as older USB generations to USB 2.0. The enclosure has an LED that lets you know you’re using an 80 Gbps capable interface by glowing white. This LED turns amber when using an interface faster than 80 Gbps. <\/p>\n
<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSSD enclosures are usually made by companies that specialize in consumer flash devices, such as SSD manufacturers themselves, or those that specialize in storage solutions, such as NAS, DAS, or drive enclosures. The TerraMaster is the latter type. Why this is important is that the latter type often sees storage as a solution rather than a product. NAS devices tend to come with extensive browser-based integrations and tools for organizing, protecting, and backing up your data. The TerraMaster D1 SSD Pro is one such product. TerraMaster includes TPC Backupper, a powerful utility that allows you to synchronize your entire PC, choose what you want to back up, and merge your local disks, including their partition tables and volumes, regardless of their file systems.<\/p>\n
TerraMaster D1 SSD Pro can accommodate one M.2-2280 SSD with PCIe (NVMe) interface. It connects the SSD via a PCI-Express 4.0 x4 host interface (64 Gbps per direction), connecting it upstream using the Intel JHL9480 “Barlow Ridge” bridge chip. With an upstream bandwidth of 80 Gbps, the enclosure is capable of increasing the performance of any M.2 Gen 4 SSD. It also supports Gen 5 SSDs, which will pretend to be plugged into a Gen 4 M.2 slot. <\/p>\n
The JHL9480 chip physically only outputs PCIe Gen 4 x4, so there is no possibility of higher performance for Gen 5 SSDs that use the 120 Gbps bandwidth mode of Thunderbolt 5. You still get 80 Gbps, which is twice as much as Thunderbolt 4 and USB4 (V1). To test the drive, we used an ASUS ThunderboltEX 5 add-in card that was properly installed and configured on a supported ASUS Intel Z890 chipset motherboard, with a Core Ultra 7 “Arrow Lake-S” CPU. Currently, this is the only way you get 80 Gbps from a Type-C port using Windows. The only other platforms with Thunderbolt 5 are Macs and MacBooks based on Apple’s M4 (or later), which have been out since 2024. For testing, we used the Samsung 990 PRO 1 TB, one of the fastest Gen 4 NVMe SSDs at launch.<\/p>\n
TerraMaster is selling the D1 SSD Pro enclosure for an introductory price of US$199.<\/p>\n
| TerraMaster D1 SSD Pro Enclosure<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n | |
|---|---|
| Brand:<\/th>\n | TerraMaster<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Model:<\/th>\n | D1 SSD Pro Enclosure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Power:<\/th>\n | No drive included (up to 8 TB supported)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Administrators:<\/th>\n | Intel JHL9480 “Barlow Ridge” JMicron JMS583 Analogix ANX7415 Analogix ANX7406<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Dimensions:<\/th>\n | 121 mm \u00d7 58 mm \u00d7 37 mm (H\u00d7W\u00d7D)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Weight:<\/th>\n | 300 g, 10.6 oz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Interface:<\/th>\n | Thunderbolt 5 and USB4 V2, 80 Gbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| SSD interface:<\/th>\n | IM.2-2280 with PCI-Express 4.0 x4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Guarantee:<\/th>\n | Two years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Price on Time Updates:<\/th>\n | $199<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Introduction TerraMaster D1 SSD Pro is an enclosed M.2 NVMe SSD that can turn a standard internal SSD into a solid and high-performance portable SSD. The idea behind this enclosure is to provide the performance of today’s 80 Gbps-class SSD enclosures without the need for active fan-based cooling. The enclosure instead uses its chunky, wheeled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-laptops-gear"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12923,"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12921\/revisions\/12923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |