External SSD options...

What happened to the dedicated section? Grrrrr...

Anyways, I had a MB failure recently. Now it's fixed. Didn't find out until I got it back that both SATA ports worked both my 512GB 850 pro drives. Fast forward to a few weeks ago and I started with a 1TB 850 Evo just to try and recover any and everything I could. Thankfully, between 2 Dropbox accounts, 1 of 2 HDDs, a flash drive and a SD card I recovered the important stuff and about 90% of my junk overall. I've since learned that the 850 Pros and EVOwill not work in my trusty ole enclosures 3 of which are USB3 to SATA. They show up on device manager but cannot be initialized there or in disk management. I have an Inateck FE2002, but from my research it is unlikely that will work. Seems I should go with eSATA with external power or a dedicated docking station.

Any recommendations? I've never used a dock and I also don't want to pay too much nor buy some cheap Chinese knockoff. Prices seem to range from$30-$100. I only need a 2 port one. Another option is a NAS but that can get pricy quick too. I don't need to get crazy. Just want to use whatever to backup stuff. I would rather do it locally over USB3 but that seems more and more less likely to work. Seems I should get a docking station or NAS. Off the top of my head isn't there something like SAN also. One is network attached storage which could have some server functions and IIRC, if is is SAN, that is storage array network. I have a Netgear Nighthawk R6400 which should work but the USB ports probably won't function. BTW, what I've been trying to as of now is use a 4 port powered USB hub which is also BC 1.2 compatible. I think the 1.2 part only gives extra juice for charging and not powering up a modern SSD. All my HDDs work and even an Intel X25 32GB. Of course the HDDs are way too slow and the X25 is way too small. Anybody care to give some recommendations? My budget is preferably <= $100 but will to pay more for quality stuff i.e. I only like to buy stuff once and not continue to fuel China's astronomically growing economy or the economic warfare most people ignore. Any suggestions to get me started? Eventually I'd like to have 2 external drives for redundancy so I don't run into the critical massive data loss I had before. ThogutsT? Suggestions? I'd like to get this started ASAP as I don't want to have to swap back and forth to keep my master backup going with little hassle.

Thanks.

 

I have a single slot version https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matter...&qid=1526997842&sr=1-3&keywords=usb+sata+dock It worked with my old Crucial C300.

I believe this is the dual slot version - https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matter...qid=1526997694&sr=8-17&keywords=usb+sata+dock

Why won't the 2.5" 850 Pro or 2.5" 850 EVO work in something like this? FWIW, it mentions those models on the supported drives page.

 

@pukemon best option would be an enclosure / docking station that supports TRIM. Not sure you'll find one for 2x drives, though. If you reconsider about feeding Chinese economy, here's a viable solution (also sold on eBay as Maiwo).