M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure with Heat Sink, 10Gbps USB-C to PCIe NVMe M.2 Hard Drive Enclosure with Thermal Cooling Pad, NVMe M.2 Drive to USB-C External Storage Enclosure, Fits M-Key B+M Key NVMe SSD

I have an old HP Spectre and wanted to upgrade the factory provided 500GB M.2 SSD to a larger storage SSD. I purchased this TDBT enclosure/adapter along with Samsung (MZ-V7S1T0B/AM) 970 EVO Plus SSD 1TB - M.2 NVMe after reading many reviews that this adapter seemed to have worked to help facilitate the OS migration for that particular SSD. Enclosure itself was pretty straightforward to use and it did indeed come with a small screwdriver so didn't need any other tools to complete the job. Also came with USB-C to USB-C and USB-C to USB-A cables which makes it extremely versatile as it will be compatible with older machines as well as newer machines as more and more laptops begin to shift towards USB-C ports. Maybe because myold 500GB SSD was a Samsung SSD but the transfer was as smooth as I could have hoped for. I took the new 970 EVO that I purchased and plugged it into this adapter. Downloaded the Samsung Data Migration (not magician) software as well as the 970 EVO drivers from the Samsung website and started the transfer after consulting a couple of YouTube videos. Took about 30mins to transfer 450+GB of data to the the new 970 EVO and then the Data Migration software shut off my computer. Maybe I was in too much of a rush and should have just left it for a while but I turned on the computer and got multiple blue screens until my laptop failed to boot. I quickly unplugged the adapter and went to the motherboard startup menu and restarted the computer using that route. I also thought I would need to factory reset my entire computer, so thank goodness all my files are in the cloud storage. Breathed a sign of relief when my computer booted up. Shut the computer down, swapped out the old SSD with the new EVO since the Data Migration software did say the transfer completed successfully and held my breath as I started my computer up again. Success! It looks like it worked. I now have lots more space in my C: Drive. Here's hoping it stays that way and my inexperience didn't mess anything up too badly. I did notice that the enclosure getting a little warm when it was transferring over my OS, but this adapter did exactly what I wanted it to so 5-Stars from me. I put my old 500GB SSD into the enclosure and may format it to use as a normal memory drive in future, but for now I will keep it in the enclosure in case the EVO 970 fails me or if I find out I did something wrong during the upgrade. The reason I went into so much depth was to provide guidance to people who are in the same boat as I was, trying to upgrade my SSD without the faintest idea of whether I was doing it correctly the whole way through.

This was a little more expensive than sata m.2 enclosures, but it was still cheap and you get a lot for what you pay. The enclosure itself needs to be assembled somewhat, which isn't too difficult. It comes with the screws you need to mount the SSD to the internal board, plus extras. It comes with a standoff, and an extra. It comes with a heatsink you can place atop the SSD, with an adhesive thermal pad (and extra). It comes with extra screws for the heatsink mount. It comes with a shock dampener (and extra) if you need it. It comes with extra screws for the faceplate. It comes with a screwdriver to put it all together. And it comes with not only a type-c to type-a cable, but also a type-c to type-c cable. They really did put everything you need in the box (except the SSD hehe). The outer casing will heat up and act as a large heatsink as well. I used this to clone my laptop drive (half-length 256GB sk hynix) onto a 970 evo. I did not put the heatsink or thermal pad on as I was going to swap the drives after, and the outer casing DID get quite hot. I assume that would have helped, but it was a temporary usecase. Afterwards, I put the 256GB drive into the enclosure (the pcb has screw holes for fullsize and half-length drives, too!) and because it's so small and a bit slower (and I didn't want to cut up a thermal pad), I didn't put the heatsink on with that one, either. It doesn't get too hot and it runs fine. Unfortunately I can only make use of USB 3.1 Gen 1 speeds, but this enclosure does seem to live up to that, at least. And cloning with Samsung Migration worked flawlessly, didn't need to preformat the drive or anything.

I am lost for words to describe this product... even though I am yet to test out the USB 3.2 Gen 2 speeds (1000Mbps), I am very impressed with the built, function and looks of this product. I have tested more than a handful of SATA3 and NVMe enclosures over the years and none have truly satisfied me until I stumbled across this item from TDBT. I never heard of the brand before but now that I have, I will be looking forward to bigger and better things from them. This is currently one of two NVMe enclosures (one has my Adata SX6000 Pro while the other, my Samsung SM 961 ) that actually ship with a heat sink included. I was skeptical about the heat sink initially, so I never bothered to install it. After using the ADATA SX6000 Pro in the enclosure for a few weeks, during my testing, the NVMe Drive got as hot as 60 Degrees C while in use. So I decided to install the heat sink but based on my knowledge of SSDs, even though they can get very hot under constant stress (writing huge GBs of data) its the controller that generates most of this heat and not the NAND cells themselves. If fact, NAND cells are "happier" being hot than cool. Its the controller that always needs to be regulated where heat is concerned. My mission was to cut the heat sink to fit over the controller and that I did with a hacksaw blade and then filled it (see photos) down for neatness. After installation, I was shocked! During my extensive testing, the same ADATA NVMe Drive never got more than 45 Degrees C with the heat sink on. Now that is impressive. The guys who designed this enclosure deserve an award... not only does the inner heat sink work but the outer shell acts as a secondary heat sink with fins on the top and bottom so there is always air flow around the entire enclosure. All I want from this company is for them to come up with a unit that can give you the full speed of the NVMe drive over USB, maybe when USB4 comes along and I would be extremely happy. I own two of these enclosures and I want more! Would I recommend it? Are you kidding? You shouldn't be considering anything else but TDBT's NVMe Enclosures.

Fast and reliable, what else could I ask? I'm using it with a Samsung 970 Evo SSD, goodbye USB sticks.

One of the better external M.2 SSD caddy. Can confirm it supports both NVME & SATA SSD sticks. Bonus as they also provide both a USB-3 and USB-c cables. Caddy doesn’t require any tools to open / close. Storage sticks easily installed. No drivers required to be installed in OS to see device.

Mi única queja es que siento que la tarjeta SSD está un poco doblada ya instalada, pero así es su instalación también en la motherboard un poco. Funcionó muy bien desde su 1er uso.

The enclosure is high quality aluminum. It was very easy to assemble. It comes with all the tools to assemble it. It also comes with heat sink and also cooling tape. Speed is not bad with usb c. A bit slower with usb 3.0. but over all it's a good sturdy device.

Very easy to install and worked great with a spare 256gb nvme drive I have. Transferred videos and pictures at amazing speeds exactly as people have tested 1gb transfers on an Mac Mini M1.