ElecGear USB Mini Enclosure for 2230/2242 NVMe and SATA M.2 SSD, PCIe and Serial ATA Aluminum Housing Case with Magnet Cap, 10Gbps Flash Drive Internal Memory Stick Card Reader (NV-2242A)

Feelin' hot hot hot

I put a 1TB M.2 2230 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQG6JCRP) in the enclosure. I had to press down a bit on the cover which would indicate a snug fit for the M.2 drive + thermal pad + cover.NOTE: Another reviewer said this enclosure would not (securely) hold a M.2 2230. Based on that review I bought a 2230-to-2242 extension (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLH4WHS3). I didn't need the extension because the enclosure does (securely) hold a M.2 2230 (I just had to move the offset post from the 2242 hole to the 2230 hole). Perhaps this product has been updated since that previous preview?The drive was formatted with two partitions ... 1x ext4 (linux; 0.9TB), 1x ntfs (windows; 100GB).I mounted the ext4 partition in my Ubuntu 22.04 environment and copied 370 GB of data files (mp3 files, ISO files, software installation packages, virtual machine directories, an 80 GB TrueCrypt partition).The music archive (*lots* of small files) copied at a sustained speed of ~400 MB/second.The larger files copied at a sustained speed of 900-925 MB/second.The enclosure managed to get a little warm throughout the test ... nowhere near as warm as I had expected ... and definitely nowhere near 'hot'.The enclosure is a couple mm longer than my Corsair 512GB GTX 'premium' flash drive (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079NFKVRB). The Corsair is the typical 'high speed' flash drive that's rated at 440 MB (writes) that drops down to ~80-90 MB/sec after the first 20 GB of copy activity.NOTE: The Corsair originally cost ~210 USD; this homemade flash drive (with twice the space) cost ~120 USD.This homemade flash drive runs circles around the various collection of (USB 3.1 Gen 2) thumb/flash drives in my desk drawer. (Yeah, the aforementioned Corsair is old tech but I've got newer thumb/flash drives that are also incapable of maintaining a high write rate.)Hey, commercial thumb drive makers!!!! While this homemade 1TB flash drive cost me ~120 USD, you could surely reduce the cost by 30-50%, put it in a smaller form factor, and sell a million of these as a new breed of *actually* fast thumb drives.

This adapter greatly exceeded my expectations. Installation of the NVME drive is simple, build quality is excellent, and performance is exactly as you would expect from an NVME drive over USB3. Windows recognizes it as a SCSI device (mine is the ElecGear NV-2242A) which supports TRIM commands.The all-aluminum case combined with the included heat pads makes for excellent heat spreading and dissipation. The design allows for a heat pad on both sides of the NVME drive which provides more area to dissipate heat. The aluminum case spreads the heat very evenly across the entire body of the adapter which cools the drive better than its normal environment inside a PC (with no heatsink on the typical 2230 NVME drive).With the prices of NVME drives continually dropping, this will be my go-to whenever I need a high-performance pocket drive. There's no reason to buy an expensive high-capacity "thumb drive" unless you absolutely require the small size. This adapter with a cheap NVME blows them all out of the water.EDIT: I had to reduce my rating by one star due to heat. The case, itself, works exceptionally well to spread and dissipate heat from the NVME drive. Unfortunately the drive, itself, produces much more heat in this adapter than it does in a proper NVME slot on a motherboard. I suspect voltage regulation is to blame, though I haven't found a way to directly measure the voltage.It could be my particular NVME drives (I bought multiple) but the heat issue isn't isolated to a single adapter or a single NVME drive.

Fast, high quality Nvme enclosure. Will definitely buy again.

Solidly built, this is now my travel "computer". I put in a NVME SSD and installed Windows To Go. The drive fits perfectly, the magnetic cover is strong. I can plug it to my work laptop or the hotel business center computer, boot from it and I'm ready to use my own computer, my backpack is lighter!

I got the enclosure to repurpose an old NVMe SSD I had lying around, and it’s been great! I used a 2242 NVMe SSD, and it turned it into a superfast flash drive with transfer speeds up to 10Gbps. Seriously faster than any regular USB stick!The magnetic cap is a nice touch, and the aluminum housing feels sturdy but lightweight. It even comes with a thermal pad to help with heat, and the blue LED indicator looks cool when it’s plugged in.Note: This is just the case, so you’ll need to have your own SSD. But once you pop one in and you format it, you’re good to go, it is just plug and play.