Easy to install, performs as advertised - both USB A and C ports work at the full 10 Gbps sustained! Installing an SSD is pretty easy as you just need to unscrew the cover, attach the M.2 drive along with the optional cooling pad, screw in the mounting screw and reattach the cover. Unfortunately, both the cover and the mounting screw are 5-point star shaped screws, which are not very common. However, there’s a screwdriver in the box. High Speed】 This ssd enclosure connects your NVMe or SATA SSD to a USB-C Gen 2 or Thunderbolt 3 port at USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps speeds. Capable of performance over 800MB/s read/write when using high performance NVMe media. One HD movie transfer only takes few seconds. The SHE-C325 isn’t the most attractive enclosure on the market, but it does use mostly aluminum casing (the left part near the USB port is plastic) and at 4.5 x 1.5 x 0.4 inches, it’s pretty portable. SSK’s enclosure also comes with a thermal pad to help send heat to the aluminum casing, but you’ll only want to use it if your SSD doesn’t have a built-in heat spreader. The fastest enclosure we've tested, the ZikeDrive uses an ASMedia ASM2464 controller to deliver USB 4 read speeds that are 20 percent faster than we've seen on the competition. Write speeds were less impressive, but still strong in most scenarios. However, the ZikeDrive doesn't make the best list yet, because it's part of an IndieGoGo campaign and not available for general sale.

Another reviewer mentioned that they achieved higher speeds in their USB-C port, but that person had experienced slower USB-A speeds. This change of mind return policy is in addition to, and does not affect your rights under the Australian Consumer Law including any rights you may have in respect of faulty items. To return faulty items see our Returning Faulty Items policy. If you want an SSD enclosure with some RGB bling and a swanky sci-fi design, Asus’s ROG Strix Arion is for you. The M.2 NVMe enclosure has two RGB lights, an illuminated ROG logo on the top and a small plastic fin on the side. These show a pleasing pink and purplish light show which Asus markets as being part of its “Aura Sync” RGB ecosystem. However, there doesn’t seem to be any way to actually control the lights as the Asus Armoury Crate software we tested with did not recognize the drive.

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The only iffy part is that the enclosure slides together and is only stopped by a thin piece of plastic that looks fragile. At least they give you a spare in the box. Using this with a Samsung PM961 (960 EVO OEM drive) and I can push 1000 MB/s reads and writes through this enclosure sustained. The enclosure uses a Realtek RTL9210B-CG chipset, which I suppose is one of the better ones.

On a few M.2 enclosures, including the SSK SHE-C325, we found that our test Kingston Rage Fury SSD’s built-in graphene heat spreader, which adds 3.5mm of z height to the drive, didn’t leave much vertical clearance. However, the SHE-C325 could close anyway, without scraping the drive’s surface. Considering that many M.2 SSDs have built-in, non-removable heat spreaders, every enclosure should accommodate them. It might be that to conserve power, the ports on the M1's are indeed underpowered, dunno. Also, I cannot plug 2 TB3 drives in my M1 Air at tha same time. doesn't mount whatever I do. The Sabrent EC-USASP has an on / off switch, something you won’t find on most SSD enclosures but a nice convenience if you want to leave it plugged in but only power it on when you need it. Most 2.5-inch SATA enclosures have USB 3.0 micro B as their output port and come with USB Type-A to micro B cables. However, the EC-USASP has a USB 3 Type-A port (5 Gbps) and comes with a Type-A to Type-A cable. So, if you are planning to connect the enclosure to a laptop that has only Type-C ports, you can use a USB Type-A to Type-C cable (something many people have lying around the house) to do so. The other USB-A port and USB-C port in my laptop only achieved 400-450 MB/s read write speeds. So I guess one of my laptop USB ports capable of 3.2Gen2 while other two ports are only 3.2Gen1.The enclosure itself is pretty neat, easy to install the SSD and the USB-C side works pretty much as advertised. The USB-A side however, is much slower than the USB-C side. I've attached two CrystalDiskMark results, the one with the highest numbers is USB-C and the other is USB-A. Both tests were carried out on a high-end PC. The SSD used was an Aorus NVME 256GB with DRAM. The all-aluminum chassis has ridges to help with heat dissipation and it comes with both a thermal pad you can put on top of your SSD to keep it cool under prolonged loads. It’s a rather attractive silver enclosure that has a small cutout / handle area you can use for threading through a carabiner. ASUS ROG Strix Arion enclosure (USB3.2 Gen 2 capable of 10Gbps) and a 2TB PNY XLR8 CS3030 formatted to AFP In my testing, the enclosure delivered 889MB/s read and 850MB/s write speed on one of my Laptop's USB-A ports when the energy saving turned off. The speed dropped 40%-50% when laptop energy saving turned on . To install our drive in this enclosure, we first had to remove the aluminum panel, which is attached with a tiny, 5-point star screw rather than a normal Philips head type. The enclosure comes with a small star-shaped screwdriver, but we lost it and had to go digging through our iFixit kit to find an appropriate head.

The Orico’s M2PV-C3’s design is less polarizing than that of the SSK SHE-C325, but it actually uses cheaper materials, as the top panel is ridged aluminum but the sides and bottom are ABS plastic. Type C and Type A interface】FIDECO ssd enclosure designed with two kinds interface: type C and type A interface both side can be inserted; It also equipped with a USB Type-C cable help you connect with different ports more convenient.This hard drive enclosure adopts aluminum alloy shell, slim and durable; Ventilation holes designed on both sides featuring excellent heat dissipation. Compact aluminium housing, compatible with a variety of sizes of M.2 PCIe/NGFF SSD (30mm / 42mm / 60mm / 80mm). it´s for both RTL9210 and RTL9210B Chipsets dumped the current fw info with MPTool, made sure to change all parameters in *.cfg file RTL9210B_CG_Lite.cfg to match the original fw dumped info and finally commented the DISK_IPS_THRES entry. In all instances the enclosure runs quite cool, slightly warm in the hand. The only thing annoying is the enclosure RGB lighting which stays on all the time. In all instances the enclosure is attached to the thunderbolt port of all devices.Based on other review comments and my experience I can surely say this enclosure is capable of USB3.2 Gen2 (10Gbps) Speeds if your computer is not running on energy saving mode. M.2 NVMe and SATA SSD Compatible】FIDECO SSD Enclosure can support M.2 NVME SSD with M-Key and B+M Key, and M.2 SATA SSD with B+M Key. It can support the mainstream M.2 SSD and please note that it cannot support AHCI protocol SSD. To see how each SSD and hard drive enclosure performs, we installed an SSD, connected the enclosure to our testbed laptop (a ThinkPad X1 Carbon 10th Gen) and then ran a series of benchmark tests, using three different apps: PCMark 10’s Storage Benchmark, DiskBench and CrystalDiskMark 8. To maintain consistency, we used the same M.2 NVMe SSD, a Kingston Rage Fury PCIe 4.0 SSD (2TB), in all of our M.2 enclosures and the same 2.5-inch SATA SSD (a 1.9TB Toshiba model) in all of our 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SATA enclosures. This is one of the most performant 10 Gbps enclosures and one of the most convenient, thanks to a tool-free design that allows you to slip the cover off by pressing a spring-loaded switch. It's a few dollars more than the Sabrent EC-SNVE at present and we prefer that enclosure's flip-up lid to the Plugble's slide-out one.