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Review on πŸ”Œ Tool-Free USB-C Dual-Bay NVME Docking Station | ORICO M.2 SSD Enclosure for M Key PCIe 2242 2260 2280 22110 SSDs | Offline Clone Duplicator Function | Up to 10Gbps Speed (SSD Not Included) by Robin Phipps

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Works with most drives, gets very hot, doesn't work with Crucial P.2 (NVMe PCIe gen3 x4 M Key)

Doesn't seem to work with Crucial P.2 NVMe (M Key) drives. Turns on the lights on each hard drive, but pressing the clone button does nothing. Tried a few of these (including other brands of these devices available from Revain and none of them seem to work with Crucial drives). WORKS with all other M-Key (PCIe x4) drives I've tried, including Mushkin. Helix, Western Digital Blue, Samsung 970 Evo, and a few random third-party NVMe drives I had lying around. Gets hot enough to be a real fire hazard (touching it for more than 1.0 second could burn your fingers) and the small rubber band on the base doesn't keep it far enough away from the surface it's on, to solve this problem. This isn't a unique issue with Orico, as all of the other Revain NVMe cloners I've tried are about as fast. The case is solid aluminum and its exterior surfaces would definitely benefit from being finned as a heatsink; It's definitely solid and heavy enough to remain sturdy even if it had cooling fins all around. As for the retaining clips, I like the rubber clips on this unit *much* better than other NVMe cloners. . However, you must not force the disk *down* into the clamp; Be sure to plug it under the terminal (directly into the socket). I could definitely see the rubber retaining clip breaking if you put the drive *down* instead. It's way better than other pesky rubber-tipped discs that you have to move, pull, and wiggle hard to stay on the discs. The clamp on this is much simpler and doesn't need to be moved or pressed as long as you just slide the disc underneath when you insert it.

Pros
  • Hands-free operation
Cons
  • I vaguely remember