I now know why people are returning the MAIWO enclosure:
Connecting the MAIWO…
- MacBook Pro (Apple Silicon M2 Pro, with TB4 ports): kernel panic as soon as tried to mount, repeated kernel panics when tried to boot with drive still connected (note that this is even with the drive initialized as exFAT and empty).
- Intel iMac with TB3 port: 246x appears in Thunderbolt/USB4 device tree in Thunderbolt 3 mode, but drive doesn’t appear in Disk Utility so can’t initialize it
- Same iMac but using an iPhone USB-C charging cable > USB-C to USB-A adapter > USB-3 hub > iMac USB 3 port: drive appears in Disk Utility and can initialize
- MBP using the iPhone charging cable: Drive mounts
- Drive mounts on both MBP and iMac using a USB 3.1 cable (USB-C), at 10 Gbps
- iMac using a .8m Thunderbolt 3 cable: No drive visible
- MBP using the .8m Thunderbolt 3 cable: Kernel panic
People are returning it because it is garbage. The Thunderbolt / USB4 interface doesn’t work.
The only positive note is I did achieve my goal for this week, which was to use it to initialize the M.2 stick before I put it in the ThinkPad. (If I didn’t init it first very bad things would happen.)