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Comment on Fixing a JMicron-Based M.2 USB Enclosure That Stopped Working by asheets
['Maya Posch', 'E. Rodommoc', 'Jeff Wright', 'Sammie Gee']
Comments for Hackaday
After implementing a fix a few years ago, [Mark Furneaux] can happily report that the thus fixed enclosures are still working.
These faulty board revisions feature the JMicron JMS583 controller IC, which has a 1.0V core voltage input pin.
Apparently to save power, Orico designed the board to target the minimum ~0.95V core voltage per the datasheet.
Later versions of the Orico TCM2-C3 enclosure switched from this JMicron controller to a Realtek one, which so far appears to be noticeably more reliable.
Although Orico kept the same model name, the transparent enclosure makes it at least a snap to see which revision you are dealing with.