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Well built, well-designed, great for cloning drives -- can get hot (that's by design!)
By ChrisC on Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2025
Simple little device that turns a stick of storage into an external drive. Ideal for use when cloning a drive -- I got it to clone my son's 512GB drive to a 2TB drive. The device is basically an enclosure and a giant heat sink, with a good sized silicon pad inside to get the heat off the flash chips and into the metal case. It's also well engineered and solidly built from (I assume) aluminum. During the transfer process, which involved 512GB of writes, the enclosure got quite warm -- about as hot as a charging laptop will get on the bottom -- but that's part of the design spec for these solid state drives, and this device is designed to radiate that heat, which is does. Overall a really flawless and easy to use experience. I doubt it gets as hot in normal use -- that was a special stress-test case.
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Could not make it work at 20 Gbps
By Swampcat on Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2025
I was looking for a higher-speed enclosure to hold my NVMe drive used as working storage for my video editing. I thought this would be it at a lower price point than the Thunderbolt 4/USB4 enclosures. It's solidly made and uses screws to close the enclosure. Excellent build quality overall. Unfortunately, the excellence ended with the build quality in my unit. Using the included cable, I plugged it into a known-good USB 4 port on my desktop. Blackmagic Disk Speed Test showed 10 Gbps speed, not 20. I tried every port I had on three computers that support USB 3.2 or higher. I swapped out cables, swapped the NVMe card with another one, basically went through all of the possible variables. I have decades of experience in computer hardware and software, so I feel confident that my troubleshooting was thorough. I never coaxed more than 10 Gbps out of it. Since I don't need another 10 Gbps enclosure, I am returning it and will spend a little extra to get one of the TB4 enclosures instead.
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