Zikedrive Enclosure with ASMedia ASM2464PD - First USB4 enclosure capable of close to 30Gbit bandwidth?  

Posted by: @mason_li

@wildfear, it doesn't work at all, but can be seen in Device Manager, Hwinfo and GPU-Z(partly)

 

 

Not so bad for start : all seems OK beside of the displaying part (sic!), it might be software / drivers issue as it's USB4 and maybe not yet fully working on TB4 device ?

Any chance you could try on an AMD USB4 laptop ? :p

Any updates on the matter? I just lost a steal level ebay bid for a nvme enclosure, and I don't intend to start from scratch if this enclosure works. 
I would literally worship whoever is able to make this work. 

Posted by: @mason_li

@itsage, i've done it already but didn't help, and i forgot to mention that the rtx3080ti gpu not showing up in Task Manager

 

Have you tried in both cold-plug and hot-plug to see if that makes a difference? I placed an order for this enclosure and hope to receive it soon (in the US). When did you order and how long was the wait?

@itsage, yes i tried but no difference. This enclosure i got is a sample from Zike, they sent it to me for testing eGPU. Anyway, i gave feedback on the issue to their engineer and just wait for reply.

@revolutionary-sky-70, it's not working for eGPU yet, i think it's better to choose JHL7440 enclosure for the moment

@mason_li, I would love to. But between this and the OCuLink thing, and also that I have to upgrade my laptop this year itself to a thinkpad with tb4 and 2 nvme 4.0, I'm just more tempted to wait. I will stick to the m.2 port on my old laptop in the meantime. 

If this worked with eGPU I'd order one (or two) in an instant. Keep us posted, @mason_li . When you say it's better to go with a JHL7440 enclosure, is that what the devs told you or your extrapolation?

It would also be great if you could take some photos of the PCB.

I wonder about the nature of the component at the top right of the picture at https://www.techpowerup.com/review/usb4-guide-info-technology-details/3.html

And in what sense does the ASM2464PD support power delivery? Device to host? Where does it get power from?

@fndg, it's just my thought, the devs haven't told me anything yet. Sorry i can't post photo of PCB because it's confidential, but i have full specs of ASM2464PD, i can send it to you if you are interested

@mason_li I was mostly wondering if there was a way to use the board for power delivery, since the ASM2464PD includes a PD controller. But it would still need to get the power from somewhere. The component at the top right of the pic in the techpowerup review I linked almost looks like a barrel connector, but maybe I'm being too optimistic.

It would be great if they could PCIE pass through to work properly.

Hmm so after looking at the schematics for the ASM2464PD it seems that the controller can only act as a PD sink, so I'm not sure it could even be used in a board design intended to provide a PD source / pass-through.

According to @handtalker it looks like the ASM2464PD doesn't handle PCIE passthrough ( https://egpu.io/forums/custom-egpu-chassis/one-dock-unique-dual-port-egpu-dock-thunderboltoculinkm-2-0-26l-2/paged/2/#post-104603). I wonder if we can expect to see this fixed via a firmware update, or if we have to wait for other USB4 controllers to appear on the market. Either way, a ZikeDrive eGPU seems speculative at best at this point.