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EC-SNVE enclosure with Samsung EVO 990 Plus 2Tb not being seen by Samsung Magician (plus question re FW update)

  • j

    Hi,

    Just purchased all above, using with a HP Pro Mini 400 G9 Desktop PC (using rear USB-C 10Gbps port)

    First question is about FW updating of the EC-SNVE. I downloaded from the relevant Sabrent product page, which then unzipped showing the UTHSB exe tool, plus 'UTNVME_B_v1.25.7.032421.bin' update file.

    When I ran UTHSB exe pre updating, the UI showed '1.33.44' on an orange background - was this the existing FW? If so, I've managed to downgrade the FW, as it now shows... 1.25.7

    (Weird if so - I would have expected the FW Updater to say 'Warning - you are going to downgrade...' as happens with other updaters I use).

    Whatever, neither FW seems to work when it comes to my Samsung EVO 990 Plus 2Tb SSD.

    By that I mean that if I attach the Sabrent and SSD, in Win11 sees the Samsung (shows in Disk Manager, where I could initialize it and give it Y: letter) and it is also seen by CrystalDisk Info, which gives S/N etc.

    But in Samsung Magician (latest update) just shows Unknown Drive, 000 S/N and Protocol as UASP.

    Any ideas? I was intending to clone my internal Samsung 1TB SSD to this one in the Sabrent,   then swap.

    Thanks.

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  • j

    One oddity just noticed - running HP PC Hardware diagnostics, it shows the Kingston RAM I installed recently, but under Storage it only shows the original 1TB SSD C: (Also Samsung)

    Not sure if that is relevant.

    Thanks

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  • j

    OK, sorry - that must have been just an issue with that HP APP - in HP Support Assistant it DOES show the SSD in the Sabrent, though only describes it as 'Disk 2 Sabrent SCSI Disk Device Y:'

  • S

    @jay The enclosure uses a bridge chip/chipset that translates SCSI commands to SATA/NVMe commands. This enables communication over USB with UASP, or the USB Attached SCSI Protocol. In the past you would see this with SCSI for optical and virtual optical drives as well. Some commands can be passthrough but the enclosure as a whole might be shown as a SCSI device.

  • j

    Thanks for the explanation.

    BTW , thanks to the free Acronis (great offer) I did manage to successfully clone my existing 1TB Samung in the HP to the new 2TB Samsung 990 Evo Plus in the Sabrent EC-SNVE enclosure, but one thing puzzled me.

    Acronis said it had cloned the three partitions from the 1TB C: boot disk no problem.

    However the 1TB original shows the 3rd partition (837MB) as being 'Healthy (Recovery Partition) whereas the 2TB Clonse is showing that partition as shaded (diagonal lines) and 837MB
    Why is it not showing it as Healthy and a Recovery partition? I'm a bit concerned that if I do need to recover the C: drive at any time, I won't be able to do so. Thanks!

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  • S

    @jay Since the drives are differently-sized, you might want to make sure things are straight with a partition manager. MiniTool Partition Wizard works well. As for cloning/backup, Acronis is pretty straightforward but if you need more flexibility check out the free MultiDrive. Also, to check the status of the partitions use Disk Management in Windows.

    The recovery partition helps restore system settings in the case of disaster so can be important, but be sure to make your own backups and system restore points.

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  • j

    Thanks for the prompt response, I now only buy hardware from companies with good forum support.

    I'll check out those utilities. Agree about backups! - I usually use Macrium Reflect.

    p.s. for some reason not getting notifications about forum posts - I sign in using email address then use 6 figure code.

  • Almighty1

    @jay - Depending on what you use.  Some may or may not include the Windows Recovery Environment which is the Recovery partition you are referring to as well as the OEM Recovery partition if the system was built by an OEM and they supply it among others as when you use UEFI/GPT, I learned this a few days ago while reading this thread:
    https://www.elevenforum.com/t/hasleo-backup-suite.16189

    There is also something known as a small MSR (Microsoft System Reserved) partition which Windows Disk Management will not show but other programs do.  the MSR is a reserved partition that does not receive a partition ID. It cannot store user data when used in an UEFI configuration but is part of the System BOOT partition set needed to reBOOT a System... it's usually only 16MB in size, of course my Dell system seems to ship with the MSR being 128MB.

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