ORICO Aluminum M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure , Tool-Free 10Gbps USB C Adapter, USB 3.2 M.2 NVMe Reader, External SSD Case Thunderbolt 3 Compatible, Supports 4TB 2230/2242/2260/2280 PCIe M-Key SSDs-PWM2-BK

This USB case gave great speed with both an Orico 1TB and a Samsung gen3 2TB NVMe SSDs. And it's a value! There's another Orico case I tried -- Thunderbolt 4 supported and almost 10X the price of this one. True, this one is USB only. But that one, while it works as expected in Thunderbolt, if you force it to use USB 3 instead, its performance at best would be only 1/10 the speed of this USB NVMe enclosure. This one for USB is excellent.

Arrived exactly on time and worked perfectly first time. The instructions were tiny, but legible and it was easy to work with. Plenty of speed and it doesn't get hot. It does get a little warm, but not hot.Great way to repurpose the SSD out of an old laptop before disposing of it. Keeps the data around in case you need it and later can serve as storage for other things. Recommended !!

It's a nice M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure.Tool free, uses rubber grommets instead of a screw.Orico provides two silicon grommets.Notice there are groves in the grommet to attach to the SSD then push down.Didn't figure that out until I put my glasses on. Duh...Big blue light when you plug it in. Could be good or bad for some...I don't mind it.Short cable, approximately 11" inches long. Take that into account depending on your setup.I've included some pictures if that helps anyone.Overall, it's pretty nice. I like it.I wouldn't carry it in my back pocket and sit down, it would probably break, but in a backpackIt should be fine if you're going mobile with it.The top, (darker blue part) is plastic.At first my computer didn't recognize it, so some might have to go to disk management.Initialize-format, that's it.The blue is nice too.Solid 4 stars, cable should have been longer, maybe 14 inches.Oh, It comes with a black aluminum heatsink and a 1mm thermal pad.

There's nothing not to like with this unit. It's all good. The drive stays in place with a rubber grommet, for easy swapping and access as opposed to using screws, and comes with a heatsink too. The aluminum case is solid and looks good. Transfer speeds are excellent. Great and affordable!

This review is for the ORICO Aluminum M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure , Tool-Free 10Gbps USB C Adapter, USB 3.2 M.2 NVMe Reader, External SSD Case Thunderbolt 3 compatible, Supports 4TB 2230/2242/2260/2280 PCIe M-Key SSDs-PWM2-WH (ASIN: B0BJ25HQJQ)* * * * *I put a Crucial P3 Plus 4TB Gen4 NVMe in this enclosure to use as a backup to my backup of digital photos. As a thermal test, I copied a 65GB folder of photos from an external USB HDD to this drive on my 4 year old Alienware laptop. This is not a fair test of speed/performance since this laptop only supports USB 3.0, and even worse, the source drive is a spinning drive (so I didn't attach a speed test). I did include a graph from Hard Disk Sentinel Pro showing the drive temp from the time I plugged it into the USB-C port, through the 65GB transfer, and then a few minutes of idle time. You can see it got warm during the transfer (and I can attest that the aluminum case did effectively pull heat away from the drive--I could feel it doing it's job), and then over a period of a few minutes it cooled back down. After the drive temp restored to normal, the enclosure was again cool to the touch. Regarding the thermal pad included, it appears to be Artic TP-3 at 1mm thick (at least it looks and feels just like the TP-3 that I purchased recently--I bought the .5mm, and the one Orico included is twice as thick). I'm happy with this $14.23 purchase (04/2024) and highly recommend it. I added a pic showing the blue LED, which is only as bright as my keyboard backlight (it's just right in my opinion, but some people are never happy).

This is a piece of plastic junk that can't even be disassembled without breaking. There are little plastic clips that hold a back plate onto the main compartment for the M.2 drive that broke immediately, rendering the whole thing completely useless. Do not buy this. Look at anything that requires tools because this toolless stuff is unusable.

The motherboard of my main PC suddenly died. Yes, it’s the legendary brick-prone Lenovo Legion T5 series! I bought this NVMe enclosure to use it to read and transfer the contents of the drive from the brick PC. Functionality wise it does work as it should and allowed me to read and transfer all the files to another PC.The main concern for this enclosure is heat dissipation. The kit comes with a thermal pad and a heatsink. When you slide in the main enclosure body it effectively seals it hermetically. The problem is the heatsink does not make contact with the main body and without any air circulation, there’s no way to efficiently dissipate heat from the drive to the outside. You can always use it without the enclosure body but that also means exposing the NVMe drive out in the open and not to mention, the setup is somewhat ugly. If this enclosure was designed with better heat dissipation, or even vent holes added it would’ve been a five star product.

It is so easy to swap the SSD when you are trying to either recover data or setup a recovery/diagnostic USB. I work in IT and since I picked one of these up I have started recommending them to the other techs and our procurement department. Especially when there has been an accidental damage or out of warranty failure, this comes in handy for quickly and easily pulling the SSD and recovering data quickly to a replacement computer. We use bitlocker to encrypt the drives on our computers and any time saving is always useful. So far, I have only run into one situation where the included heatsink for the drive was somewhat useful, but in general I don't use it.