Sabrent USB 3.2 Sort-C Device-Free Enclosure for M.2 PCIe NVMe and SATA SSDs (EC-SNVE)

Easy and works
Super easy to use—just snap the drive in, close it, and you’re set. No screws or hassle. Speeds are fast, and it handles big file transfers without issues. Feels solid, doesn’t overheat, and works like it should. Great option if you need a simple M.2 enclosure.

Great Prduct-Slightly Confusing Official Product Video from Sabrent
I bought this Sabrent branded enclosure because I planned to upgrade my daughter’s HP Pavilion “Gaming” PC model 790-0010. I also bought this HP PC from Amazon circa June 2018. The stock loadout of this HP PC had a 1TB WD Blue SATA HDD.Not too long into the life cycle of this HP PC, I bought a WD Blue M.2 SATA 512 GB SSD and installed it into the HP PC’s vacant M.2 socket and migrated the WD Blue 1TB HDD “boot” drive to the M.2 SATA SSD and turned the WD Blue 1TB HDD into a data drive. This gave a nice performance boost to this HP PC.Fast forward October 2023 and my daughter is telling me how the 512GB SSD is always full. My daughter who is not overly PC savvy didn’t even realize that the 1TB HDD was still there for data storage of things like pics, videos and things of that nature. Still, she managed to fill her 512GB M.2 SSD with Steam and Blizzard games and needed more space.I purchased a 2TB Crucial P3 drive during Amazon’s “Prime Day in October 2023” event. Per Crucial’s website this NVME drive would work in the HP PC even though it was NVME and not M.2 SATA.I used Clonezilla Live via bootable USB thumb stick to clone the M.2 SATA SSD to the M.2 NVME Crucial drive.So let’s talk about the Sabrent enclosure.I selected this because it supports BOTH M.2 SATA and M.2 NVME drives. Other products that I saw supported one or the other but not both. I also have other Sabrent products such as usb to SATA/IDE cables for connecting drives via USB. The handful of Sabrent products appear to be of good quality. They may cost a few bucks more but I like the piece of mind of having a quality product.The enclosure is easy to open up and install a M.2 drive into.Here is my minor quibble and why I removed one star from a perfect 5 from my rating. And this is more on me an not Sabrent.So the product page on Amazon has pictures of the product and has a product video that is officially from Sabrent with a guy named Mike in it. The guy says his name is Mike so I assume that’s his name. Mike is happily demoing and showing off the enclosure. It’s a great video and I am glad to have watched it.That said, it falsely put me under an impression about the product’s use that was not true. To be clear though, the false impression that I was under is clearly documented in the included enclosure product manual. Had I consulted the enclosure manual first, I would have had no confusion. Still, Mike’s charisma and charm were intoxicating and I was instantly captivated and trusting of anything Mike was telling me about this enclosure.During the video, Mike claimed that this enclosure supports multiple size M.2 drives. To accomodate this , the video indicates how easy it is to move the “locking pin/nub” to the appropriate locking hole in the enclosure so you can accommodate those shorter M.2 drives. Fantastic! This is great!So the video gave me the impression that regardless of the size of the M.2 drive you are working with, you will have to install a locking pin/nub into the correct locking hole to hold your drive in place so as to close the enclosure.This is not the case. I gather that most M.2 drives are of the 2280 size and the enclosure has permanently installed a turning locking pin at the front of the enclosure that will lock a 2280 sized drive in place. The included locking pin/nub for a shorter drive is in the packaging but not needed nor installed by default in the enclosure. The vide with Mike in it gave me the impression that the locking pin/nub had to be manually removed and reinserted each time a drive was put into the enclosure. That is not the case. Again, the manual calls this out clearly. But I didn’t look at the manual because Mike told me everything I needed to know.When it became clear that the turning locking pin/numb in the enclosure is not removeable and then when I consulted the manual, it all made sense.So the confusion is clearly on my end. I should have looked at the manual first.That aside, this is a great product. If you need to clone an M.2 drive to another M.2 drive, you need this in your PC toolbox.I wish the enclosed USB C to USB C cable was a tad longer but not a big deal.I would happily buy more of these and use them as glorified thumb sticks for discarded M.2 drives I have from other upgrades.Great product.Thanks again, Mike! I still trust and believe in you.

Superb, Fast and Easy!
Could not be easier to use. open, insert m.2 ssd (heat sink pre-installed), close, connect usb-c to drive and device. Couldn’t have taken more than 2-3 minutes total. So very simple and fast. Getting almost 1 GB per second transfer speed on an iMac, reading and writing.

Works great here
Works with both nvme and ssd. I use one to run a Raspberry Pi, with Nextcloud. I rest it on an aluminum device and it does not get hot. Just warm, probably warmer if I set it on the table. Good speed. I like the rubber snubber instead of a screw, took a little getting used to but I don’t have to worry about dropping a screw (I am clumsy).I have 2, mostly use the other one to image nvme drives or for backup.

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I recently purchased the SABRENT USB 3.2 10Gbps Type C Tool Free Enclosure as a way to keep my additional NVMe as a compact and fast storage device, and I couldn’t be happier with my purchase. The tool-free design made it incredibly easy to set up and the transfer speeds are incredibly fast thanks to the USB 3.2 10Gbps technology. The compact size also makes it incredibly portable, perfect for taking my additional storage with me on the go. I highly recommend this product to anyone in need of a high-quality and reliable external storage solution. Thank you SABRENT for creating such a fantastic product!