Review on 💾 Sabrent USB 3.0 mSATA SSD Enclosure Adapter [Support UASP] - EC-UKMS: Ultimate Storage Solution by Alex Montgomery

Very good little device at a good price. I ended up buying two of these because I was concerned about reliability. I've tested them a bit extensively and both seem to work as advertised. I'm not sure how they will hold up over the long term, but they seem legit. I hope I can answer some of the complaints I've read in the reviews. The design is nice and simple, clean and seems well made. It doesn't have the big glowing logo on the front like some designs, which I'm really pleased about. It's small. I would have liked a shorter USB cable, but I ignore the one that comes with it. It's short enough for my needs. Even the tiny LED doesn't stand out, unlike some items where the LED lights up a dark room. I'm using it with a Samsung 1TB EVO 850 mSATA drive with a 2015 13" Macbook Pro. I cloned my internal 1TB drive to an external one and copied around 650GB which took over an hour. Likes it Seems like a long time, around 180MB/s, but I'll explain later.After the drive was cloned, I booted from there the mSATA external drive with no problems in my two chassis modules (just replaced the SSD).The chassis will hot. Obviously. It needs to heat up. This means it's doing its job properly as a heatsink. With the amount of data I've transferred, I close my eyes to consider how hot the Samsung "T1" drive is its plastic casing will be. Plastic is a great insulator and aluminum is a much better choice than heatsinks. If anyone doesn't know Samsung T1, look it up. Tried to reproduce this, minus better components. The case was en halfway too hot to touch. through the cloning process. After touching the device for about 5-8 seconds, it became too unbearable to touch. It didn't actually burn me, just hurt and not unlike the heat generated by my spinning mechanical disc drives. While it worked at this temperature, the copy speed was around 150MB/s. I believe this is due to the 1TB Samsung EVO 850 design, which intentionally limits the read/write speeds to protect itself. I've read that the lower capacity drives in the EVO 850 range perform much better because they don't get as hot (something about power management). Things got more interesting when I placed the drive on a piece of thin aluminum as an additional heat sink. The drive almost immediately cooled enough to hold it in my hand. After that, the copying speed increased noticeably. I'm sure if you have to work hard on this drive you can put it on aluminum foil in a pinch, which can dissipate heat even more. For my purposes I use it to back up data when I travel. . Therefore, all my media files should always be backed up and always in my bag, unless of course I'm using a laptop. I always keep two copies of my files in different locations in case they get stolen. This little 1TB mSATA drive would be GREAT for that and way better than my old proprietary LaCie mechanical drives. If you intend to use it as an external boot drive, I'd recommend going with the more traditional format, as these small form factor drives aren't really designed for use in an environment without proper cooling. If, like me, you need a tiny USB drive that can hold 1TB of data that you sometimes need to read and write to, look no further. A 500GB Samsung mSATA SSD might even be better if you don't need that much capacity.