Review on 💽 UGREEN M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure Adapter - Aluminum, USB C 3.1 Gen 2 - Compatible with MacBook Pro, WD, Samsung, Toshiba - 10 Gbps Speed - External Enclosure for PCIe M-Key SSDs by Jacob Diego

First, I'm asked to give 1 to 5 stars for features like "Technical Support", "Easy to Identify" and "Storage Capacity". Sure, I recognize it as a hard drive case, but if I saw it on the street I still wouldn't know what it's called. In addition, the suitcase itself has no storage capacity. Pull yourself together, Revain! I would also like to point out that in this case (like ALL HDD enclosures) it is NOT about performance. Enclosures for drives are COMFORT. Many reviews seem to misunderstand this simple concept. If you need performance, don't adapt the drive's native interface (NVMe, PCIe, etc.) to something else (USB, lighting, etc.). In general, the fewer steps between the drive and the motherboard, the faster it will be. So, actual testing time. In the first picture, two different test programs are testing my BRAND NEW, OUT OF THE BOX Samsung 970 EVO NVMe M.2 V-NAND SSD. This was formatted internally and then placed in the case. (The second image is the system information panel in the control panel, which shows the basic details of the computer I ran the test on, which is really important.) I have 2 x 1TB NVMe cards in the laptop, and the transfer is likely , difficult. between the system drive (which I believe is an Intel SSD) and the Samsung drive in this case. The transfer rate is determined by the included USB-C cable. Pretty trite - certainly not 10GB per second as the keyword stuffed title says, but I didn't buy the case thinking it would MAGICALLY speed up the transfer speeds of my PC or SSDs used to transfer files way to speed up. At the time of writing this review, I'm currently moving almost 800GB of video files from an old hard drive that's starting to fail to the aforementioned Samsung NVMe SSD. Windows kindly informed me that this process would take around 73 minutes (giving me a reasonable transfer rate of nearly 11GB per minute, almost certainly being slowed down mostly by a 5 year old 7200rpm hard drive). I noticed about 10 minutes into this case that it was hot. So I opened up the case (i.e. removed the "cover" on the aluminum bushing), pointed the fan at the drive, and quickly resumed the transfer (see third image - the fan is on the bottom right). Once the file transfer is complete I will not be burning large chunks of files onto this drive, although I will add new videos from time to time as I make them. If I ever need to transfer a lot of files again, I'll almost certainly install it on either my laptop or tower PC, because that's where the power of these NVMe drives really lies. So! The case does exactly what I want - allowing me to put files on an NVMe card without having to mount it directly onto the computer's motherboard - at a price I agreed to ($14.99). I'm happy? Of course. Do I have little niggles? Of course. First off, the plastic screw that holds the NVMe SSD in the case's "sled" is just as unwieldy as the rest. There's an extra one in the box in case you lose the first one, which is nice, but I'd rather have a real one Metal screw that is inserted into the metal-threaded receiver. Because of this clumsiness, I give it 4 stars. For people who may not know, SSDs of any kind get hot when "loaded"; particularly stable file transfer. That's a simple fact. Another simple fact: EVERY case, by definition, retains that heat in some way. Some cases come with some form of heat sink (aluminum fin edges on the outside of the case that do little to no heat dissipation). Some come with fans to move the air around the case and help warm it up a bit. But the reality is that heat is the killer of hard drives, and no enclosure can help. To be honest, I would strongly advise against using this type of case for frequent large file transfers. But I love using it for frequent storage and viewing of video files and would recommend this case for THAT specific use. Update: The file transfer that was originally supposed to take 73 minutes completed in 69 minutes.