Features:

  • M.2 NVMe drive to USB 3.1 Gen 2 Adapter, supports PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD, NOT support SATA M.2 SSD. Max. speed USB 3.1 10Gbps, actual testing speed over 1000MB/s for reading/write. Save tons of time.
  • USB-C to USB-C and USB-C to USB-A cables included, works with USB-C/Thunderbolt 3/USB-A hosts. Easy to install, easy to setup and easy to use.
  • Enhanced heat dissipation design, It comes with NVMe M.2 SSD thermal cooling pad and heat sink, solid build quality, Aluminum case with heat dissipate fins, cooling down internal NVMe SSD rapidly.
  • Fits both M Key and B+M Key NVMe M.2 SSD (2230/2242/2260/2280). You can use this enclosure to clone the operating system to a new NVMe drive, upgrade the SSD in your laptop, then use the old M.2 NVMe hard drive as USB external storage. It can also work as Windows to Go/macOS bootable USB external drive.
  • Work with iPad Pro, Android Smartphone, PS4/PS4 Pro/PS 4 Slim, Xbox One/One X as USB external storage device(SSD not included). Perfect companion for Mac/Windows PC.
“Samsung Migration” Can recognize this device even it won’t show up under “My PC”

Perfect for cloning Windows 10 Pro Os. I was using the provided “Samsung Migration” software successfully! Please REMEMBERER, “Samsung Migration” is NOT Samsung “Magician” they are different. “Samsung Migration” Can recognize this device even when I connected it using this adapter. It took me 10 minutes to do the cloning using “Samsung Migration” to clone from my old NVMe to a new Samsung 970 Pro NVMe 1Tb. After complete cloning. I removed my old MVNe, assembled the new 970 Pro NVMe to my laptop, turned the laptop on. And yeah, you don’t need to do any configuration, everything just appears as nothing happened! You can continue working on your last projects. Everything pop-up automatically like we are running on the old NVMe SSD. Such a Great Experience!!!

Nice external NVME enclosure

Solid external case for a spare NVME drive. The NVME enclosure read/write speeds for USB are pretty good, don't expect to get the speed as with the NVME drive attached directly to the motherboard. The enclose read/write speeds top out about 1G, which is still faster than any of my external 2.5 inch SSD enclosures. I paired this with a crucial 1TB NVME drive with read/write speeds of 2G, so it won't fully utilize the drives read/write capability, however I am fine with that. I needed an external enclosure for closing a primary drive and this works. My pc doesn't have a USB-C connection to test speeds to see if any faster. If I needed another enclosure, I would purchase again.

Includes everything needed for a Samsung 970 EVO Plus. Enclosure looks great too.

TDBT provided everything needed to install a Samsung EVO Plus 970 drive into the enclosure. Included is the USB pcb, metal enclosure, 2 strips of heat transfer tape, extra screws, and 2 USB 3.1 cables for USB C to USB C and USB 3.1 PC to USB C. The instructions were easy to follow and the 970 fit into the enclosure like a glove. I really liked how they gave extra tape in case I screwed up the install. The included screwdriver was a nice touch. On my older laptop USB 3.0, transfer of a 3 gigabyte file was 350 megabytes per second Read from the enclosure to my local SSD. Write was 300 MB per second.

Successful SSD M.2 Upgrade for Laptop

I have an old HP Spectre and wanted to upgrade the factory provided 500GB M.2 SSD to a larger storage SSD. I purchased this TDBT enclosure/adapter along with Samsung (MZ-V7S1T0B/AM) 970 EVO Plus SSD 1TB - M.2 NVMe after reading many reviews that this adapter seemed to have worked to help facilitate the OS migration for that particular SSD. Enclosure itself was pretty straightforward to use and it did indeed come with a small screwdriver so didn't need any other tools to complete the job. Also came with USB-C to USB-C and USB-C to USB-A cables which makes it extremely versatile as it will be compatible with older machines as well as newer machines as more and more laptops begin to shift towards USB-C ports. Maybe because myold 500GB SSD was a Samsung SSD but the transfer was as smooth as I could have hoped for. I took the new 970 EVO that I purchased and plugged it into this adapter. Downloaded the Samsung Data Migration (not magician) software as well as the 970 EVO drivers from the Samsung website and started the transfer after consulting a couple of YouTube videos. Took about 30mins to transfer 450+GB of data to the the new 970 EVO and then the Data Migration software shut off my computer. Maybe I was in too much of a rush and should have just left it for a while but I turned on the computer and got multiple blue screens until my laptop failed to boot. I quickly unplugged the adapter and went to the motherboard startup menu and restarted the computer using that route. I also thought I would need to factory reset my entire computer, so thank goodness all my files are in the cloud storage. Breathed a sign of relief when my computer booted up. Shut the computer down, swapped out the old SSD with the new EVO since the Data Migration software did say the transfer completed successfully and held my breath as I started my computer up again. Success! It looks like it worked. I now have lots more space in my C: Drive. Here's hoping it stays that way and my inexperience didn't mess anything up too badly. I did notice that the enclosure getting a little warm when it was transferring over my OS, but this adapter did exactly what I wanted it to so 5-Stars from me. I put my old 500GB SSD into the enclosure and may format it to use as a normal memory drive in future, but for now I will keep it in the enclosure in case the EVO 970 fails me or if I find out I did something wrong during the upgrade. The reason I went into so much depth was to provide guidance to people who are in the same boat as I was, trying to upgrade my SSD without the faintest idea of whether I was doing it correctly the whole way through.

Quality Of Materials Used Is Excellent And It’s Exactly As Advertised

I’m not exactly sure what some of the reviewers of this product are all about ... claiming that the enclosure is plastic, etc. Absolutely not the case. The enclosure and separate heat sync are 100% finned aluminum. The enclosure came as a full kit. We received the main enclosure, ssd board, separate heat sync, two strips of heat sync tape, screws, screwdriver, spacer foam, front cover and two cables (usb-c to usb-c and usb to usb-c). The enclosure uses a usb-c connector. Installation of our 256 Gig WD (short) ssd was easy. It just snapped into the connector and then held down with the special spacer and screw provided. We then cut the heat sync tape to size and secured it to the top of the ssd. You then screw down the aluminum heat sync on top of the ssd ... flip over the board and secure the foam spacer. You then slide the board into the main enclosure and attach the front plate with the supplied screws. That’s all their is to it. In our case we used a WD 256 Gig ssd that was supplied with my Dell Inspiron XPS laptop. (I upgraded the Dell to a 512 Gig ssd with a completely fresh install of Windows 10). We then reformatted the 256 Gig ssd so my son could use it as an external storage device with his Mac Book Pro. The enclosure worked as advertised. The Mac Book recognized the enclosure and ssd without any issue. We then reformatted it using Mac Disk Utility and that was that! Also, their is a white LED power indicator light that shines through a hole in the front cover indicating power. The whole package is exactly as advertised and works great. I can highly recommend this if you are cloning one ssd to another or ( like us) setting it up as an external storage device. 5 stars!

Exactly What I Needed

I was in the process of upgrading my Acer Predator G9-793's 512G OEM Samsung SSD to a 1T 970 EVO Plus SSD. Installation of the new drive was easy and I liked the addition of the heat sink although I have no plans to use this enclosure on a regular basis. I basically needed it to clone the old C drive onto the larger and newer 970 EVO Plus. Initially, I tried cloning using the free version of Macrium. I thought I did everything correctly, including resizing the partition that needed it. However, when swapping out the new drive, my laptop would not boot up from it. I know other reviewers said they had similar problems and suspected the enclosure was doing something to the drive to keep it from being recognized/booting, but this failure was probably down to user error (and not the software). I installed Samsung Migration (not Magician) and gave the cloning another shot. This went smoothly, Migration recognizing the SSD in the enclosure, and when I swapped out the drives, my laptop booted up flawlessly, expanded the correct partition and cloned the recovery partition as well. I then installed Samsung Magician and it can see, test and update the newly installed EVO Plus. While I cannot speak to this case's longevity or how the heat sink performs under heavy load, this enclosure did exactly what I needed it to do and makes a great case to keep my original C Drive safe.

The best instructions so far.

I unfortunately did not save the packaging to describe it later. I purchased this one at the same time as the Plugable version of the NVMe adapter. The Plugable brand was smaller in width but had to be replaced. This one came with extra screws, two cables (USB-C and USB-C to A), and a thermal pad. It also came with an extra insert, which I assume is used for heat dissipation. After having two aluminum enclosures without the extra heat dissipation, I had drive failures and failures in creating images or copying large amounts of data. The new adapters are better designed, with heat spreaders built into the case and thermal pads. I absolutely needed the instructions, but I finally figured out how to properly connect the brass spacers. You get extras, and I often wonder what I need right now and what I hold in reserve. Anyway, the heat shielding seems to work great; the drive runs cooler and data transferred successfully. So far I have had no problems with mounting drives on two different machines, a MacBook Pro and Windows desktop. If you have any issues with grasping tiny screws, then you might want to check out the plugable brand. However, this one seems to have more shielding.

Great support. Initial unit had one issue with old USB 3.0 but replacement works faultlessly.

The first enclosure did not work on my older desktop which only has USB 3.0 support. The problem being that Windows 10 recognizes the device but I was unable to format the volume as an accessible drive in Windows 10. The seller/manufacturer reached out promptly and resolved the issue. I received a replacement unit and it works faultlessly. Great support. Updated 2020-07-03 Just received a 2020 MacBook AIr and connected the TDBT to the Thunderbolt 3 port for speed test. I used one of the two included cables which has USB-C on both ends. I copied about 37GB of video files from the TDBT to the Macbook Air in less than 1 minute 26 seconds (86 seconds). Some of the USB -C cables I tried only provided charging function, no data transfer. I tried the long white USB-C cable that comes with the MacBook Air. The long white cable is used for charging but the transfer time was 17 minutes (1,020 seconds), probably due to the cable length. To get faster transfer speed, the options are to buy Thunderbolt enclosures that are 5 to 8 times the price. So this is a great value if you don't absolutely need the ultra-fast speed.

Sturdy, heavy, small and fast, all that I asked for from an enclosure.

Product is as described. Remember, it’s USB C 3.1 Gen 2, which has maximum speed of 10Giga Bit per second (10/8~1GigaBYTE per second), which is what Blackmagic disk speed test shows in MBps). Had it for almost a week now. I am using ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB NVMe SSD which is way faster than I am able to get out of this enclosure. But not the fault of the enclosure, it gave close to 1GBps as promised and I am more than satisfied with what I paid for. Will buy the thunderbolt enclosure once it gets cheaper to get the maximum out of the disk. I liked how sturdy and heavy it feels. I used the heat sink that came with the enclosure instead of using the once that came with the disk as this one felt like a little ‘more’. I prefer the cable to be shorter than standard 1ft that we get with the enclosures so that my enclosure doesn’t hang around. But not a dealbreaker at all. The USB C connector is a little longer, so it doesn’t go completely inside the laptop female USB C port. I use it with 15.4” 2016 MacBook Pro and I use it as the main disk. I run photoshop directly on the images stored in the disk and there is no heating or lag experienced so far. My laptop hung when I formatted the disk for the first time and was ejecting it. Not sure what caused that, but after the forced reboot, I don’t seem to have any issues. Will update the review after I have used it for a few months.

Very Good Quality and Design!

This is my first M.2 SSD Enclosure. I read the reviews on many enclosures and decided to go with this one. I'm certainly glad I did. I cloned my existing 2.5 inch SSD onto an Intel 760p Series M.2 2280 512GB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 3D2 TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDPEKKW512G8XT This worked flawlessly. It was easy to follow the directions. The screws are super small. I recommend using a magnetized screwdriver to avoid dropping and potentially losing screws. It was easy to take everything back apart after cloning and store it away in its original packaging for future cloning. You won't be disappointed. Just get it already... ; )

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