UGREENSSD Enclosure, Tool-Free USB C External, 10Gbps M.2 NVMe to USB Adapter/Reader Supports M and B&M Keys and Size 2230/2242 /2260/2280 SSDs

Reading only negative reviews for a lot of these enclosures made me very skeptical about buying one, even this one. But I really needed to know if my m.2 drive died and I see a lot of praise for UGREEN products on youtube and amazon, so I figured why not? I also liked the grey tones and style of the enclosure, it looks cool :PThe outer shell easily slides off with a click and inside is a place to put your drive with a simple rotating thumb 'brace' to hold the m.2 drive down. It comes with a thick short USB-C to USB-A cable and a USB-C to USB-C cable, along with a thermal pad and some instructions.I kind of wish the indicator light was on the "push" side of the enclosure because of the way it sits facing away from me when plugged into my USB 3.0 hub. But it was easy enough to see the lights reflection around my desk, not worth knocking a star over that.My m.2 drive showed up in Windows, no problem. I left it plugged in for about 30 minutes. It never got hot at all and was easy to handle (despite was some reviews may say). I no longer need the enclosure at the moment, but it's good quality and you never know, so I'm keeping it. Would definitely recommend this enclosure to others!

Got this for an enclosure for 512gb Kingston NVME drive as an external drive for a Mac Mini. Do note in case you're one to not read the fine print this is only 10gb speed, not full 40 of Thunderbolt but it says that. And it works just fine.

Great product! Worked flawlessly with my WD Black M.2. It's built pretty solid too! Would recommend most ANY UGreen product! This one is definitely a winner!

I purchased the Ugreen SSD Enclosure to assist in me migrating my Windows data/partition to a bigger M.2 SSD as well as providing a permanent home for the smaller M.2 SSD. I appreciated the tool-less installation of the SSD onto the chassis. I am not a big fan of the design of the rubber girdle you slip over the enclosure but it does provide a good grip over the slippery metal surface.It includes a strip of thermal pad which I am dubious of its effectiveness as it doesn't seem to make any or barely any contact with the surrounding metal sheath.

Well-made, product, does the job exactly as needed. Can be used for multiple different sized SSDs. Used it to extract the information from the SSD of a dead laptop. Now I can reuse that SSD in the UGreen holder as an extra external drive in a different computer. Comes with two cables, one C to C and the other C to A so it will work with most all computers and it should withstand be jostled around as it comes with an internal shock absorbing pad and an external case cover that absorbs shock as well. What more could you want at a very reasonable price?

I had bought the wrong size SSD and when it came in it was tiny, but I couldn't return it. I got this to put it in so I could use it. It's working great. I didn't have any trouble getting it installed into the adapter and it is working fine without any problems whatsoever. It's very fast to me. I'm not a gamer, but I do some graphics work and Excel and this is giving me plenty of storage and I don't ever have to wait if I do a save or a open. I'm very pleased.This is made well and seems sturdy.

As described, great product and worked as I expected.

My problem with this is design. NVMe drives DO get warm or even hot. Inside a PC case a drive would either be completely exposed to air or it would have a heat sink on top of it with a thermal pad in between. There is enough pressure from the heat sink pushing down on the thermal pad for there to be a solid link between materials so heat can pass from the drive, through the thermal pad and then to the heat sink. This enclosure has an inside unit which slides into the external case you see in the image. On top of that it's beveled so over the area where the drive sits, it's higher than on the sides. So, inside unit slides into external casing. Cool right? No, HOT.This unit comes with a thermal pad you put onto the drive, but a thermal pad is supposed to make a solid connection with a drive AND a heat sink, which in this case would be the external casing. But since for one the inside unit has to slide into the external case, AND it's beveled AND the highest point is above the drive, that thermal pad isn't going to make a good bond between the drive and the external case, so instead of pulling heat AWAY from the drive, that thermal pad actually TRAPS HEAT on the drive because air doesn't wick heat away from those thermal pads fast enough.So this is a very poor design. I would say if you buy this, toss the thermal pad aside because it's not going to accomplish anything except for maybe heating up the drive faster. Now, the one good thing is since this is running through a USB port and the max speed is 10Gbps, which is about 1.2GB/s, that's not very fast for a modern NVMe drive so it won't heat up so much, compared to a drive that plugs into an NVMe port on a PC that can run MUCH faster than that depending on the drive and the type of NVMe port (PCIe gen3, 4 or 5) where the best drives can now run about 10GB/s. So, this helps to keep the drive cooler, simply because the data transfer speed is relatively slow, maxing out at about 1.2GB/s best case scenario and most likely only a few hundred MB/s.I've worked with another enclosure where the thermal pad made good connection between the drive and the external case, and the case got very warm. This case doesn't so once again that's probably heat trapped next to the drive. So, I removed the thermal pad so at least more air can move around the drive.Another point about using enclosures, they create problems for the operating system in how to deal with them. For instance a typical USB drive, when under a file browser you can tell the system to eject the drive. You can't do that with these drives, so Windows is recognizing these are permanent fixed drives, not a portable drive. Maybe you can change a setting in Windows. But when you use these between different operating systems, you HAVE to eject the drive using the operating system or it can start to corrupt the file system, or at least make the operating system think there's a problem with the drive. So in Windows you go to status area on the toolbar and go to the icon for "safely remove hardware....." and select this to eject it. But, I can have problems doing this from time to time and if I just pull it and then stick into another system, I get problems. The other thing is using Linux with these enclosures. Once again maybe there's a setting I haven't figured out, but these give me lots of problems with Linux which is very frustrating. Even with a fixed drive, when you are under a file explorer in Linux, you can tell the operating system to either eject or unmount a drive, but with these I don't get either option. I have to go under disk tools to unmount it. But there are times I have problems unmounting and it will LOCK UP my system or lock up USB ports which is VERY frustrating because now I have to reboot a system.Last point, you can't think about these like a typical USB drive. You need about double the capacity for a drive that you stick into these enclosures that you plan to use. So, if you want to use 500GB, you need to stick in a 1TB drive, and this is because you are continually writing to it, and storage on an NVMe drive or any solid state fixed drive has layers of storage for bits. You can write data to an NVMe drive and later the drive will move that data around on the disk to an upper, but slower level to get data onto. If you don't have a lot of extra space on the drive, it will slow down dramatically as the drive is not only taking in the data you're trying to write to it, but it's also trying to move data to those upper layers. A typical USB flash drive doesn't have the problem so you can continually write to it until it's full, no problem.So, I don't have good experiences with using enclosures and the operating system doesn't matter.