Review on 💿 ORICO NVMe Enclosure: USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C Adapter for M.2 NVME SSDs - 10Gbps Speed, Aluminum Case - Supports 2230/2242/2260/2280 SSDs up to 2TB by Anthony Heinrichs

, Orico currently offers two externally identical (and almost identically named) USB 3 NVMe SSD cases. This runs on the Jmicron 583 chipset; the other runs on the Realtek RTL9210B chipset. The case is incredibly cheaply made. This is little more than dust protection on a circuit board. The included "thermal pad" doesn't even bridge the gap between the PCB (or SSD) and the case. For a Realtek-based device, this isn't such a serious problem as the device runs very cool. This case gets quite hot and quickly runs into thermal throttling issues due to its inability to self-cool. Even when cooled, the benchmarks are relatively poor (well below what the chipset can do, of course). In any given test (4K Random Read/Write, Serial I/O, etc.), this package underperformed the Jmicron-based Sabrent chassis by about 20%—and that was before the chassis overheated and throughput dropped to almost zero. There weren't any data integrity issues, but I'd consider a very well made, fast, and thermally stable Sabrent case for about the same price as this unit. For what it's worth, the Orico logic board insert looks suspiciously like the bare $20 boards available here at Revain, so you're paying another $25 for an inappropriate and inefficient aluminum case, that's probably it is worth a dollar or two.