ORICO M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure, USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps), Transparent External Solid State Drive Adapter Enclosure for 2280 2260 2242 2230 PCI-E M2 M-Key SSD, USB Type C Converter Case-TCM2 Black

I’m really impressed with the ORICO M.2 NVMe SSD enclosure. Setup was incredibly simple—just slide in the drive, secure it, and plug it into a USB-C port. My computer instantly recognized it with no drivers needed. The performance is excellent; I’m consistently getting full USB 3.2 Gen 2 speeds (around 900–1000 MB/s). The transparent silver design looks modern and clean, and I love being able to see the SSD inside. It feels solid and well-built, yet compact enough to carry around easily. The aluminum alloy helps with heat dissipation, and even during large file transfers, it only gets slightly warm. Perfect for anyone upgrading, cloning drives, or using it as a fast portable SSD. Great value for the quality and speed—highly recommended!

Works great so far!

Great value!! Very easy to use. Comes complete with USB C-C and USB A-C cables. Screws and even small screwdriver. Very fast. A nice little enclosure. Would recommend.

Easy enough to install though getting the drive to sit properly on the little plastic shelves while reinstalling it was fiddly and meant taking it apart to realign it a few times. The biggest drawback is the status LED on the main board. HOLY HECK it's like they took the bulb out of the bat signal. The light is blue, faces up at the very corner of the housing and strobes like nuts whenever the drive is being accessed. I initially had the intention of having this on my desk next to me to appreciate how good it looks with the clear housing but yikes it's unbearable. I had to hide it behind a potplant and even then the wall behind it looks like a techno rave. Might look to put a dab of opaque hot glue onto the diode to soften the light a bit. It was nice that Orico includes in the kit everything needed to install the drive, including a USB-C to USB-C cable. It would be nice if these cable were softer though, as they are very chunky and stiff. Performance has been great and the heat sink does a good job, but I think it would be a good idea to get the version with the built-in fan because the heat sink can get extreeeemely hot when the drive is doing a lot of read/writes - too hot touch really, so not ideal for a portable drive if you plan on putting this back in your bag or pocket when you're done unless you can give it 5 minutes to cool down beforehand.

I bought it to clone a 512 ssd from the 256 ssd, in my Lenovo T480s. The product was easy to use once I realized how the hold down screw was installed. A metal bushing goes on the end of the M2 board. Then the hold down screw goes in from the motherboard into the bushing. Easy. Based on another review, (thank you) I used the AOMEI Backupper software for the clone. They advertise a free version abut it won’t do the clone. Neither will the trial version.you gotta spring for the pro version, about 50 bucks, but it’s well worth it. It was flawless. A lot of people on here bitching about the device heating up. It never got hot for me. But when it stared to get warmish, I just blew some air on the heat sink. Yes it has fins for a reason. Be sure and use the heat sink pads, the little square thingies included in the box. Double check to make sure you stick them on the correct end of the module, over the ssd. Hook the thing up with the USB cable. Use windows disk management to initialize the disk. Watch a good YouTube video on the software.great device. Works as advertised.

No complaints, but there are 2 things I didn't realize when I got this. 1 is that it does not work with Windows XP. I got this to transfer files, so that's a bummer. Also, I am reusing an old 1TB WD Black from my PS5. I didn't realize how stuck-on the heatsink (lower) is, and it has to come off for this enclosure. I used a well-known Rubbing Alcohol and Fishing Line method, you can Google it. It works great in my iMac, but my old Dell doesn't see it.

This is cheap, compared to most using this chip, and it feels like it. From the pictures of their current Kickstarter campaign it apparently to be the same board, just in a less appealing case. I included some photos for size comparison. Truly tool free, which could be a plus for swapping SSDs quickly. That said, the little plastic piece (they included 2) thats used to hold the drive down via the typical screw slot, it fits some drives well, but for others it need some extra fuss as it seems the gap to slot the screw slot into is a bit narrow for for some drives. Also, because of its design, and their included and recommended thermal pad, the little plastic piece can interfere with the pad. NBD if not swapping SSD frequently, but if you do and the pad drys over time as they tend to (and may be more likely here because of the air movement) it may damage the look of the pad over time. I find the recommendation to use the pad a bit odd. It does not contact the heatsink. There is a good sized gap between a properly applied pad and the heatsink. When I asked about thisni was told it was by design, to allow airflow, but they didn't really explain why, then, a pad was recommended at all. Unfortunately this was, for me, unusable. During testing I would get frequent hanging, disconnections, and inconsistent performance. When connecting directly any intensive data transfer would cause a BSOD shutdown. The BSOD shutdown could be avoided by connecting via a dock, but the PC needed to be restarted or the drive unplugged and plugged back in to regain access to it. Testing speeds was all over the place. When working its best it seemed no faster than the older and, IMO, MUCH more well built M2V01-C4. Sometimes it would report, via CrystalDiskMark, crasy fast read speeds, like 24,000MB/s, but while the rest of the test would appear to run results would report 0 and the drive would be inaccessible afterward. That is, unless it was connected directly in which case it'd cause a BSOD shutdown. I worked with support to resolve these issue, but eventually, after much wasted time, they simply said it seemed like some strange and unknowable incompatibility issue (even though other devices/cases with the same chip work fine) and suggested I return this. For you, it may be worth avoiding altogether.

This enclosure works very well and holds my NVMe drive without a problem. Was easy to connect to the computer and runs fast. I don't know the exact speeds but it is fast enough for my needs and seems to faster than my other external drives. Holds all my files and there is still much pace to use. These are mostly photos I am using with Lightroom and I use these on my desktop and my laptop and it just like using the internal drive, there is no lag at all when loading the catalog upon startup.

Excelente. Llevo con el más de un año y levanta un m.2 de 500 gb sin problema.

It works fine and without no problem and it's very fast and decent quality

Top werkt prima, ook voor clone van je ssd

Excelente producto venia en su caja con sus dos cables usb con destornillador y lo mas importante el enclosure m2 facil de usar yo le puse un ssd de una steam deck de 256 Gb que no estaba ocupado va de maravilla realmente recomiendo el producto

Working well to date. No idea of life time.