ORICO Launches High-Performing Portable USB4 SSD Inspired by Mondrian

[TheLostSwede]

ORICO - Shenzhen-based innovative enterprise focusing on high-performance solutions for USB data transmission and charging - is proud to unveil the ORICO USB4 High Speed Portable SSD Montage 40 Gbps series, with a striking and durable design inspired Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. The bold and bright aesthetic draws from Mondrian's famous work Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow, incorporating the thick black lines and blocks of color that immediately distinguish the device from the monochrome alternatives on the market. Loud, but not lurid, the design is applied with the durable in-mold labeling technique also found in automobile manufacturing for its resistance to corrosion.

However, the product engineers at ORICO do not pursue form over function and have invested in the right technology to make the Montage 40 Gbps series one of the best-performing SSDs available. During performance testing, the drive achieved 3,126 MB/s reading speed, a 2,832 MB/s writing speed, and transferred 3 GB files in just one second, matching, and even surpassing, many leading products currently on the market. Accompanied by a versatile 2-in-1 data cable for USB type A and type C connections, the drive is widely compatible and able to be used with Mac OS, Windows, Android, and Linux operating systems without requiring a driver. Depending on user requirements, the Montage series offers capacity options ranging from 512 GB to 2 TB. "We are so excited to launch the eye-catching Montage series, serving superior performance and carrying a timeless aesthetic that really transcends style trends," commented Xu Yeyou, CEO of ORICO. "We had in mind on-the-go creatives, such as photographers and video editors, when designing the product."



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[bonehead123]

Loud, but not lurid

hah...says who exactly... looks pretty fugga-uggley IMO...

Questions:

A) Why are 3 of the 5 so thick and narrow, but one is thin and wide ?
B) Why one has 2 usb ports ?
C) If these are so called USB4 drives, then why are they so s*l*o*w* ? perhaps cause they used a cheap bridge chip ? Even Gen 3 nvme drives can hit ~32-3500MB/s....

 

[Nanochip]

hah...says who exactly... looks pretty fugga-uggley IMO...

Questions:

A) Why are 3 of the 5 so thick and narrow, but one is thin and wide ?
B) Why one has 2 usb ports ?
C) If these are so called USB4 drives, then why are they so s*l*o*w* ? perhaps cause they used a cheap bridge chip ? Even Gen 3 nvme drives can hit ~32-3500MB/s....

3100 MB/sec over a wire is not slow bro. Thunderbolt and usb4 protocols have overhead for error correction and so forth, so you don’t get the full 40 Gbps for pci express tunelling. In fact, the max pcie tunelling bandwidth for TB4 is 32 gbps… and will be lower in practice due to overhead. Current generation nvme enclosures (based on Intel’s TB3 controllers JHL6340, JHL7440) seem to max out at 2900 MB/sec. Some Amazon vendors, including Orico sell enclosures that claim to be usb4, but in fact they’re based on intel JHL7440, which is the Titan Ridge TB3 generation.

The addition of Titan ridge was cool because it offers a usb3.1 fallback mode, earlier intel thunderbolt controllers (JHL6340 for example) didn’t offer a usb fallback mode. The consequence is with the Titan Ridge enclosures, you can use them both with a thunderbolt and non-thundebolt usb-c port. So either you get 40 gbps in pcie mode, or 10 gbps in usb mode. With earlier enclosures, you could only use them with a thunderbolt port… they wouldn’t function in a usb3.x usb-c port.

So im curious if this new enclosure is truly a usb4 chipset, and if so, which one. And if they truly get 3100 MB/sec then that’s a step forward with slightly more speed than is offered by the current gen JHL7440. But it may just be the same old intel JHL7440 inside… I’m skeptical. By calling it usb4 they don’t have to get Intel’s thunderbolt certification and the products also don’t seem to be certified by the USB-IF for usb4 either so I doubt they’re using a usb4 controller.

 

[n-ster]

hah...says who exactly... looks pretty fugga-uggley IMO...

Questions:

A) Why are 3 of the 5 so thick and narrow, but one is thin and wide ?
B) Why one has 2 usb ports ?
C) If these are so called USB4 drives, then why are they so s*l*o*w* ? perhaps cause they used a cheap bridge chip ? Even Gen 3 nvme drives can hit ~32-3500MB/s....

According to this, the explanation is:

40 Gbps is really 32.4 Gbps for non-video data​

Of the ~40 Gbps = 5 GB/sec bandwidth of Thunderbolt 3, ~8 Gbps can be used ONLY for video data, leaving a maximum theoretical bandwidth for non-video data of 32.4 Gbps = 4.05 GB/sec.

Thus the maximum theoretical bandwidth for non-video data is 32.4 Gbps = 4.05 GB/sec. However, that data is 8b/10b encoded, so the true *usable* bandwidth drops to 25.92 Gbps ~= 3.24 GB/sec. Good luck with that—MPG has never been able to test any Thunderbolt 3 SSD at faster than about 2.645 GiB/sec= 2.84GB/sec. So much for specifications versus achievable real-world data throughput.

 

[bug]

Shenzen made, Dutch painter inspired - everything you have ever wanted from a portable SSD, but were afraid to ask for

 

[Wirko]

Darling, have you seen my usb drive lately? I'm quite sure I left it on my desk ...

 

[mechtech]

Wow

Misread Mondrian for Mandalorian and thought to myself, those drives don't look like beskar.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Apparently only one of them is USB4 and the one with two ports appears to be TB4, but not announced as yet...