Plugable M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure; Tool-Free & Driverless, USB 3 Type-C, Including Thunderbolt and USB4, at 10Gbps. for M.2 NVMe SSDs 2230 to 2280 PCIe Gen 3 and 4. USB Cables Included

Fantastic! Works with the Western Digital Gen 4 PCIe NVMe 8 TB. Flawless. Easy. Very nice design. Verry high-speed.I bought this to replace an external USB-to-PCIe NVMe enclosure I'd bought shortly after the introduction of PCIe NVMe SSDs. The old one wouldn't work with the newer PCIe 4 NVMe SSDs. THis worked flawlessly and in a minimalist form factor and pretty darn close to the theoretical speed limit for USB 3.1.

EDIT: I am switching my review from negative to positive because Pluggable has switched from using the troublesome JMC583 chip to the RTL9210 in newer adapters! Be sure to check out the Pluggable product page for details. I now have a Realtek RTL9210 adapter and it's working perfectly in every instance where the jmicron adapters failed miserably. Buy a RTL9210 based adapter! The rest of my old review is below and was for the JMicron version of this adapter.None of this **** works! I bought three of these USB to NVME adapters and all of them have failed in one way or another.I tried:The SSK HE-C325The Plugable USBC-NVMEAnd the Sabrent EC-NVMEHere's what I learned.I tested these adapters with three different NVME SSD brands on five different computers with both Windows and Linux. I experienced random power-offs, disconnects, USB bus errors, read timeouts, and other reliability problems. In one instance a desktop boot looped when the EFI tried detecting bootable drives, until I unplugged the adapter. In another case my laptop warned that a USB device had exceeded it's power draw limit. Sometimes they would work fine for awhile, and then they just wouldn't. Putting a short USB extension cable in between the drive and a USB port would often induce USB bus errors. Using front-panel USB ports, otherwise working fine with other devices, would cause similar problems.All of these adapters were unreliable, and they all use the same chip manufacture inside. The SSK has a JMicron JMS562, and the Plugable and Sabrent use the JMicron JMS583.Between my own tests and other reviews and comments I am guessing there is something fundamentally wrong with the JMicron chips. They randomly disconnect, cause USB bus errors, will make your computer boot loop, and I've even read a number of reviews claiming that they killed people's SSDs due to overheating, though I blame the enclosures for poor cooling more than the JMicron chip for that.At this time there are four chips on the open market (that I am aware of) which provide this kind of NVME to USB bridge: JMicron JMS562, JMicron JMS583, Asmedia ASM2362, and Realtek RTL9210.Unfortunately I don't have any experience with the Asmedia or Realtek chips.There are very few choices for the Asmedia ASM2362 right now. Both UGreen and Syba have models using them here on Amazon, along with a pile of generic Chinese adapters. I have not tried these yet.Realtek RTL9210 appears to be the newest chip and there are accordingly the fewest options available for it, but there are at least two adapters here on Amazon and the JEYI i9 GTR looks like the best one to try. Asus apparently has one coming to market soon too but it looks... gamer-ish. I have not tried anything with this chip yet either, but I plan on doing so.FYI if you want smartmontools (smartctl) to check info on your adapter, you will need to use "-d sntjmicron" argument, and it will need to be version 7.0 or better. Future versions might not require the -d argument but for now it does.Overheating is a real possibility with these adapters. Take it seriously. I do not recommend slide-in type covers like the SSK and Plugable use. Get a "sandwich" style adapter like the Sabrent. Both the SSK and Plugable included thermal pads with adhesive so strong I assume they were meant to be permanent, because there's no way you could get them off without ripping any label which might be on your SSD, which is exactly what happened to me. Additionally, the thermal pads just didn't do a great job of conducting heat from the SSD to the metal housing. In the case of both the SSK and the Plugable I was able to cause my Samsung 960 EVO to hit it's 77C thermal limit and then it started throttling performance. I was able to get this down to 70C with the Plugable by adding my own custom thermal pads on the top and bottom of the SSD, but it was ugly, difficult, and time consuming. Just do yourself a favor and go with an adapter with a clamshell/sandwich style housing.The SSK adapter looked great but was the worst in regards to stability. It overdrew power on one of my laptop's USB ports and had the most stability/reliability problems.The Plugable adapter worked great in some computers, but putting a short USB extension cable or using front-side-USB ports caused it to fail. The adhesive on the thermal pads was also a nightmare to get off.In regards to the Sabrent EC-NVME, the USB C plug is too far recessed into the carrier, resulting in the cable making a poor connection. The plug on the cable can't be fully inserted because the wall of the aluminum carrier is too thick. This results in disconnects when I wiggled the cable or tried moving the adapter around on my desk.If it wasn't for this, the Sabrent EC-NVME might be a pretty good adapter. It's a big heavy hunk of metal, so I'm sure it would suck up all the heat from the SSD, and you can put thermal pads on both sides. The latch and cover can rattle around a little bit, but I'm sure that could be solved with a little bit of tape or a dab of silicone. They just erred in the design by failing to use a USB port which would extrude slightly from the body so the cable could be fully inserted.If you are interested, you might check out the discussion on AnandTech's forums titled "*STABLE* NVMe - USB Adapter?", thread ID "stable-nvme-usb-adapter.2572973". It seems I'm not the only one having trouble finding an adapter that actually works well.I wasted hours on these adapters, and I feel bad for returning them all, but none of them are reliable.

This is my go to enclosure for testing drives and switching drives on the fly. I like this unit because it has a push button release, to slide the housing open and gain easy access to your SSD. Absolutely no tools required. Comes with both the USB-A to USB-C & USB-C to USB-C cables so you can connect to either a standard USB port or USB-C port. Speeds are comparable to most other USB external drive enclosures I have tested with the same drives. Your speed is really determined by the weakest link, speed of your computers port and or the speed of the drive itself.This is for NVME drives only, no SATA SSDs, but then again, who wants to use the slower SATA SSD's anyway, right?This unit comes with extra rubber stops that take the place of the SSD screw to hold the drive in place on the board so if you lose one or wear it out, you got backups.Now I will say, that if you use the drive for large transfers that run 5 minutes or longer, the enclosure does heat up quite a bit and may reduce the life of some SSDs over time. How much the SSD heats up is directly proportional to the model SSD and it's controller chip used including the controller interface on this Plugable Enclosure so it is a combination of several things that cause heating. I used Samsung SM961, PM981 and several different Toshiba X3 & X5 drives. The Toshiba X3 heated up very fast and hot to the point that the enclosure was too hot to hold more than a few seconds. The Toshiba X5 & the Samsung SM961/PM981 heated up as well, but took 5 to 8 minutes of constant writing before the drive got hot to touch, 107 degrees as measured with my laser thermometer where as the Toshiba X3 heated up to 118 degrees in the same time frame. So you can see that the heat generated by SSD's will vary. The Plugable enclosure is great for portability where you need to switch between different SSD's often. If you are using the same SSD all the time and do not have the need to switch between different drives, I would recommend an enclosure that has a larger heat-sink for better cooling.I placed a large CPU heat-sink on top of this drive enclosure without any thermal pad and that drew 100% of the heat away from the enclosure to the point that I never felt the enclosure heat up, even after 60 minutes of constant writing. I then placed some smaller NVME heat-sinks on the drive using a thermal pad between the two and this allowed the drive to operate for about 10 minutes longer before heating up. I secured my heat-sink to the enclosure with some tie wraps. (See attached photos) It doesn't look great but keeps the enclosure much cooler. Heat is your enemy when it comes to electronics and these NVME drives do heat up quite a bit.One thing I will note, this is the newer version of this Plugable Enclosure. Some YouTube videos show the older version which can open too easily. The new design locks into place and does not suffer from the older versions issue. The newer version shows (2) small white triangles pointing to each other with a black circle background. (See my photos for a picture of the new design). If it looks like this, you have the newer design.Overall I love this enclosure as it does exactly what I need it to do. I rated it (5) stars even though it heats up because I believe this was designed for IT Professionals in mind who want to switch out drives quickly and easily and are not using the drives in the enclosure for long periods of time with heavy use.Pros: Easy Swtiching of SSDs, No Tools Required, Push button release, Great for IT ProfessionalsCons: Poor heat dissipation for constant or heavy use