Review on 📁 Rongdeson (Enhanced Edition) Aluminum M.2 NVME SSD Enclosure Type-C USB 3.1 Gen 2 Speeds 10Gbps PCI-E M-Key Compatible with Sizes 2230/2242/2260/2280 for Samsung 960/970 EVO/PROWD NVME SSD, Black by Derrick Shaw

I was looking for a way to use an extra PCI-E NVME drive I had laying around and this adapter worked great. Adding an NVME drive to the board was relatively easy, but screwing in a screw from the back of the board was slightly different. There are numerous comments about the case getting very hot. In my experience most NVME drives tend to get pretty hot unless you add an aftermarket heatsink to the drive. Unfortunately, in this case, there is not enough space to mount a heatsink on an M.2 drive and build it into the device. In addition, the M.2 drive is hooked into the slot, which prevents direct contact of the M.2 drive with the aluminum case. Thus, most of the heat generated by the drive remains inside the drive, only a small part is radiated and dissipated through the aluminum housing. My guess is that the heat generated by actively reading and writing files can cause the drive to overheat and start throttling, reducing throughput. I saw my m.2 drive hit 70C during a system backup. I don't have USB 3.1 Type-C ports on my computers, so I wasn't able to measure drive speed over a native connection. My NVME drive is one of the older drives and has a read speed of 2750 MB/s and a write speed of 1500 MB/s. When using the case with a Type-C to USB 3.0 cable connected to the USB 3.0 port, I saw read speeds of 430.1 MB/s and write speeds of 394.1 MB/s with Crystal Diskmark 6, which is not bad considering that the maximum theoretical speed of USB 3.0 is 640 MB/s.