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SSD in external enclosure shows up as HDD

I bought a Samsung EVO 1TB SSD during cyber monday to use for external game storage. I noticed it wasn't performing well, so when I checked it's properties it showed up as a hard disk drive.

 

Every other device shows up properly, but Dem Gaemz A: shows up as a HDD which it definitely isn't. What's even weirder is that when I pressed the optimize button it started to Trim the drive... So does Windows know this is an SSD or not? If it helps the external enclosure I'm using is a Sabrent 2.5" enclosure which claimed to be optimized for SSD, not that I believed that to mean anything other than it works with SSDs. Is there a way to make this drive show up as an SSD? I'm worried data is being saved to it improperly and damaging it.
Link to Enclosure: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OJ3UJ2S/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

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is it possible that you are using a USB2.0 port with it? Or if you just plugged in the cable a bit too slow. It doesn't really matter if windows detects it as an SSD or not

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Just now, DeathPheonix said:

is it possible that you are using a USB2.0 port with it? Or if you just plugged in the cable a bit too slow. It doesn't really matter if windows detects it as an SSD or not

Well, I think the Spectre X360 2017 has only USB 3.0, and the computer starts with the drive plugged in. I'm kinda disappointed with the performance. I'm starting to think that my external Graphics card is the reason for the poor performance.Still though, an external GTX 780 should still be able to handle 1080P GTA V and DOOM.

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Phanteks Evolve Shift Air (glass front)

2x Corsair Force GS 120GB SSD (RAID 0)

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