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Review on πŸ–₯️ Efficient Sabrent USB 3.2 Tool-Free Enclosure for NVMe PCIe M Key M.2 SSD [Black] (EC-TFNB) by Rodney Mendoza

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Not the most convenient hard drive to set up.

I bought this 1TB drive based on many good reviews. The drive works great and works great. The real problem is that the drive is based on a 512 byte sector scheme while almost all other drives use a 4096 byte sector scheme, which makes cloning from another drive almost impossible. The Sabrent Sector Size Converter (SSC) is supposed to allow you to reformat the drive for compatibility, but it doesn't work. The included Acronis software doesn't fare much better. On the day this thing arrived I spent over 6 hours formatting and reformatting a 1TB Sabrent NVMe SSD and then transferring files from my 512GB Samsung 970 NVMe SSD to it copy and the Sabrent drive NEVER booted. After losing almost a whole night's sleep, I downloaded EaseUS Partition Master to reformat the drive and copy the files, launched it and went to bed. When I woke up, the drive was loaded, but Windows 10 wasn't working due to corrupted files. I did a windows restore using an external drive backup that I made before starting the whole process. And when Windows restore was complete, my system was finally up and running with twice the disk space it had before. The Sabrent drive seems to run as fast as the half-price Samsung and works great, but it's a hassle to set up. Sabrent really needs to work on the software side and offer better, more user-friendly software that actually works to complete the cloning process.

Pros
  • This case comes with free software Acronis True Image for Sabrent for easy cloning.
Cons
  • Too long to wait