GLOTRENDS M.2 NVME to USB C Adapter Enclosure for NVME M.2 SSD(Key M),Trim UASP S.M.A.R.T Support, Aluminum Case with Space for USB Cable Collection (Capricorn)

I'm not sure how to begin this review, but for those want my bottom line first: I think this is a great product.Now for more detail!I bought the Capricorn version, mainly because I am one. Hehehe The build quality is excellent; it feels sturdy enough and everything fits together nicely. I have only two minor faults to note here, but one might develop into something later.For one, when sliding the blue plate to close the drive compartment, one of the transistor-like components on the back side of the circuit board made contact with the plate, making it harder to slide shut. It shouldn't come into contact with that plate because who knows if the pressure of sliding it back and forth if you need to change drives often will eventually break it. Maybe just an issue of correctly seating the circuit board? Not ideal, in any case. That being said, it didn't impact the functionality as far as I could tell. Second minor gripe: one of the mounting screw holes had some not-so-cooperative threading.When actually using the device, there were no issues. The provided cable worked and the clone operation I was performing went really quickly: 11 minutes to clone a roughly half-full 256GB drive to a 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus (for those that care). Seems fast enough if write speeds matter to you. Your experience might differ. When cloning, the casing did get slightly warm to the touch, but that's what I wanted it to do. Didn't have any issues with thermals since it seemed to do its job of dissipating the heat (have to applaud their provided gel squares too).Disassembly was equally easy. Not sure if that's what it's for, but there is a rectangular gap in the circuit board that I used to pry up the board with a prybar (or spudger, if you like).Miscellany: my enclosure came with 5 screws, even though you only need 4 to install everything and secure the sliding plate. I'd like to think they did that on purpose, just in case one of them has bad threading or something. There is an extra silver standoff post for drives shorter than the 2280 form factor, but they don't have any instructions on how to install it as far as I could see. They should consider putting something about it on another instruction insert.I'll stop there and reiterate my verdict: excellent enclosure that did what I wanted it to.

I'm having problems using this device at highest sustained speeds -- the USB function seems to stall and I've even seen DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE blue screens in Windows. What's the peak current draw of this device with a 1 or 2TB Samsung 970 EVO? Perhaps it needs an option to plug in a dedicated DC supply.

After upgrading the M.2 NVME board in my laptop, I got this enclosure to use to make my files available to transfer to the new drive. If you have the ability to open the back of your laptop to replace an M.2 NVME drive, you won't have any problem putting the old board into this enclosure.

The drive does not show up in explorer. I needed it to clone another drive. It worked well for this. I gave a 4 star because of this. If you wanted to use this as an external drive, You would probably want the drive to show up in explorer. There may be an easy way to make this happen, but I just needed the clone, so I did not look into it.

I saw reference to using AHCI in the images, but no matter what AHCI drive I use, it doesn't work. So clearly the unit doesn't support AHCI drives, despite the 4th images showing that it does. I tried 4 different ACHI blades, and nothing worked,

Seems like a great NVME enclosure. I haven't had any issues so far! I'll update my review if anything changes, but so far very impressed!One complaint is that it doesn't come with a short USB-C cable. You can't get the full speed with the included USB3.0 cable.

Had Samsung 850 Pro NVME drive with some data on it I needed to retrieve. This worked perfectly. The hideaway usb cable is a great idea and design.

Using it with my MacBook Pro as a portable drive expansion. I store virtual machines on it that I don't need on a regular basis, but when I am running them want the performance off an SSD.