M.2 NVME SSD Enclosure Adapter M.2 to USB 3.1 Gen 2 NVME M.2 Case for PCIE NVME M.2 SSD Enclosure M2 Enclosure(Black)

This is a fine product. I used it to test SSD cards. It was hard to find a M.2 NVME enclosure. Most of the external boxes are for the older SSD cards. The M.2 NVME cards have a different connector with the slot in a different place. It worked great and was easily taken apart and put back together.

This thin metal enclosure encases your M.2 NVME bare-bones SSD and allows you to connect through a USB-C type connector to a USB 3.1 port. You can if you wish adapt to USB-A without a problem. The enclosure is sturdy and the logic board does what it has to do. A single mounting screw holds the drive in place without a problem. The itty-bitty little end-screws in the enclosure (did I mention that they're itty-bitty?) can be a little hard to re-seat, so take care that you don't strip them. I'm very happy with this for the price. Highly recommended.

Pros: rugged, seems durable. Easy to use. It comes with a plastic or rubber type heat sink however the instructions did not say anything about it. It should be placed on the back side of the drive so heat from the drive can be conducted away to the case. Comes with both USB-C and regular USB cables so it will work with just about any computer.

Enclosure was a little difficult to open initially. Once open, provided screws and instructions made installing SSD board mostly painless. Plugged in using USB-C to USB and was able to recover files from drive on which OS had been corrupted beyond recovery.

I have been using M.2 SSD enclosure from DMLIANKE for a while and have not had any issues so far. Decided to give a try to the NVME enclosure since I needed Samsung 970 Evo anyway. Got around 1-1.1 GB of reads and writes in CrystalDiskMark for sequential read when testing on Thunderbolt port (late 2018 HP Spectre x360 13.3" (first gemcut model)). While the enclosure is not pushing NVME drive to its maximum, it's decent enough for the portable solution. Build quality is decent and I absolutely love the shape of the enclosure. It's pretty much the same as the M.2 SSD enclosure, just with different PCB. I would like to note that it is also one of the thinnest ones since many others that I've tried compromise on thickness for the length or both. The only annoyance was the mistype on the instruction or instuction. While it did not affect the product impression for me, it can possibly affect the overall business image for the company since some people are really neat picky.

UPDATE 10/27/19 : The seller sent me a new unit and it works well. My transfer rates are now 929MB/sec to my SSD. Regarding the heat issue reported by others, I haven't had a chance to get it hot enough to test that yet. ------ I have tried this enclosure with two different NVMe SSD devices, while connecting it to three different Windows 10 PCs and two Macbook Pros. In every case, it mounts fine. The problem is SPEED. This enclosure only yields read/write speeds of only 40-50MB/sec. This is a universal performance barrier regardless of SSD or host machine or operating system. These same SSDs, once installed in other enclosures or motherboards, show read/writes of 1500-2400MB/sec. What could be the issue here? Is it possible I just got a bad enclosure?

Users who use higher end nvme drives like the 960 and 970 pro series should know that when you use it in this enclosure connected to a true usb c port it will over heat during the process. The thermal pads and design are not enough to cool an ssd of this caliber. Thankfully it cools and reconnected quickly so you can finish large file transfers. Files under a few gigs won’t overheat the system to the point of disconnect but moving 20 and 60gb files caused the system to disconnect multiple times due to thermals. If you use it with a standArd usb 3 transfer protocol of 5gbps you will not have the overheating but you lose a lot of the benefits to having these powerful and expensive drives. In essence it is poor product design for dealing with heat that leads to this.

There’s not much to say really. It comes with the screw driver, plate comes off, put in the hard drive, put the plate back on, plug it in and done. It’s solid, small, works very quick on my laptop with the USB 3.1 and I don’t have to plug it into an outlet. Works great for me!

I purchased two of these. One of the two just stopped working, does not light up and is not being detected. This happened in the middle of a transfer and I got scared. Tested different cables and different ports. Tested the NVME SSD with a different adapter so it is not the SSD issue. I am now scared that the other one might be faulty as well.