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Reviewed in Canada on March 25, 2025
Works great!
gmurnane
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2025
It works fine. The way to attach shorter drives to the adapter confused me. The drive is held down by the groove on the little brass piece, then the screw goes into the back of the adapter, rather than down through the drive the way I'm used to from motherboards and the like.
Wayne Z
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2025
Worked perfectly with a new Western Digital SN850X Gen4 NVME, a Micron 3400 Gen4 NVME, a WD SN730 Gen3 NVME and for an old Toshiba SATA m.2 drive. Very fast cloning and file copying!ASSEMBLY: As others have said, attaching the SSD to the adapter is a pain. You have to juggle 2 VERY tiny parts. A screw that come up through the bottom of the adapter and a standoff that sits on top of the board. The standoff is a spool that features a groove that secures the SSD. Easiest for me was to:1: Insert the SSD into the adapter at a 25-35 degree angle.2: Keep the SSD vertical and drop the standoff into the notch at the end of the SSD.3: Push the SSD and standoff into position against the adapter.4: Continue to apply pressure to keep the standoff in place, flip the adapter over and install the screw.5 stars for this product as far as performance and compatibility. My thought is that ALL of these bare bones M.2 to USB adapters should have a permanently attached or press in thread on the PCB that stays in place and should use a grooved THUMBSCREW to secure the SSD. The thumbscrew would be the only loose part. How convenient would that be?!?! Haven't found one yet. :(Functionally, this is a FANTASTIC product once you get it all put together!!!
Ramiz Mahmudlu
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2025
Very Very good, fast speed but the thermal cooler is not good. Nice product
Matt Fulgham
Reviewed in Canada on February 27, 2025
Great. Does exactly what it needs to.
David L.
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2025
Ever hear about a violin shaped object? IE, an object looks like a violin, but is unplayble and doesn't actually work right?This SSD mount is basically that. A false representation of an SSD mount. It works just long enough for you to right a good review saying that it functions.The good news is that it does indeed at least initially load onto my computer with no fuss. However it runs DANGEROUSLY HOT. Getting a message that says FATAL READ ERROR when opening the file system on your drive like how I got is absolutely terrifying! The good news is that when I first got that message, I was totally freaking out! Thankfully, it didn't actually kill my drive on the first go. I grab the SSD to pull it and give it a hard restart, and I noticed that it was SCALDING HOT.Once I yanked out the drive and let it cool down, it was good to go again in a few minutes. Still, it basically got hot enough to make the memory not readable. I'm pretty sure that with protracted use, it really will kill a drive. Especially given the other reviews where people complain that this mount actually DID kill their memory stick.At least in my case, it doesn't even seem to need to actually be running anything. Just having it plugged in, and it gets hotter and hotter all on it's own. I'm glad I checked it when I did, otherwise, it might have killed my drive, with lots of valuable sensitive information on it. This mount seems to lack a limiter or something so it seems to be always running at full blast.Comparing this SSD mount with the one I replaced it with, it does appear that there are 2 IC elements that are missing. The issue with my old drive is that the actual USB connector element came loose. Otherwise, everything else on the old mount worked a treat. I feel like I would have been better off resoldering the connector on the old one rather that buying this hunk of junk. It was a waste of twelve bucks.Tl;dr It can work in a pinch, if you need a few small files but only for using ~5 minutes at a time. 0/5 stars. Don't leave it plugged in, or IT WILL PROBABLY KILL YOUR DRIVE. MAJOR FATAL FLAW OVERHEATING. AVOID PRODUCT, DO NOT RECOMMEND AT ANY PRICE.Why can't you just build something properly? The design was so close to be usable.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2025
What I like about this is that it is relatively low cost and worked with no issues. I would not recommend this product for long term use. If you are using it for something like my use case, which is to back-up the data from one SSD because you're upgrading to a new one this is extremely handy. Just remember when using this in a windows system, it won't recognize the SSD immediately. You have to mount it using the disk management tool.
Scientia
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2024
I wanted to upgrade the SSD in my Predator Helios 300 to a larger 4TB Predator drive that I picked up on Amazon, but I did not want to deal with backing things up and reinstalling software so I decided to try and use this little NVME to USB adapter.I was able to bolt the new hard drive into the adapter with a single included screw and then use EASEUS to make an identical copy of my laptop without worrying about damaging my old hard drive or losing any of my data or software. The whole process took about 40 minutes and once I swapped the drives the computer booted right up as if nothing had happened, except its storage had magically increased by 3.5TB.Worth every penny, especially considering how cheap it is.
Scott
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2024
I've been having a problem with my Samsung 980 Pro 2TB drive lately that I can't figure out. After a few seconds after booting Windows I get a "device does not exist" error and the drive is inaccessible. Thing is, the drive works in other PCs, but its not working in my main rig. I pulled it from the M.2 slot, plugged in into a PCI-E to M.2 adapter, and the same problem happens. It makes no sense to me unless its an issue with the motherboard. It worked for over a year, started flaking out, then worked for months, now its flaking out again. I just don't get it.At least with this adapter, I can actually use my drive on my main PC for now until I figure out what to try next. I'd blame some kind of compatibility issue but it worked for over a year without issue. I may need to get my hands on another NVME drive to see if the same kind of issue happens when plugged into the PCI-E bus. When plugged into this adapater, the drive functions without issue, albeit at 1/6 the normal speed (1024.25 MBPS reported by CrystalDiskMark) but that is completely expected. Overall, 5/5 product. It does what it's advertised to do and I wouldn't expect more.
Mark J Huggins
Reviewed in Canada on October 2, 2024
This adapter works very well! The only small addition I would appreciate is additional hold-down screws for the outboard end of the SSD. The screws are small and easily lost.
Shane Baldwin
Reviewed in Canada on September 4, 2023
Had to recover some files from a NVME drive from a dead system before we rebuilt, re-using the old drive.Popped the NVME into the USB adapter, plugged it in and I was up and running. Please note, I did have to assign a drive letter to the NVME drive using Windows Disk Management. - if you plug it in and you don't get anything happening, please look up how to do this.Obviously the read and write speeds are terribly slow compared to what an actual drive can do, but thats what you get over USB. Grabbed a couple thousand files with ease, works as described. I would buy again and recommend this item.Lastly, yea... there is no enclosure, and yes the drive is exposed. These are NOT designed for long term usage. It is literally a tool you use to grab or drop the data you need and then put away for your next repair. If you need something long term and more durable please consider a NVME to USB that comes with an enclosure. The build quality on these is more than sufficient, additionally they provide a small screwdriver and everything you need for any sized NVME.
x-member
Reviewed in Canada on December 17, 2023
This adapter enabled me to CLONE my SYSTEM C: Drive onto a brand new MSI M.2 SSD easily and quickly without wasting my time putting my MSI SSD into an enclosure, out of the enclosure, and into my laptop.HOWEVER, it DOES have 2 flaws/weaknesses in its construction (1) where the USB end attaches to the circuit board. Therefore, be EXTRA CAREFUL when inserting it into your USB port! I strongly suggest you hold the adapter by the two corners of the circuit board closest to the USB end as you push it into the USB socket on your laptop or pc. Failure to do so and holding the adapter around the middle area of the circuit board as you push it into your laptop/pc will eventually cause the area between the bottom of the USB plug and the circuit board to bend and possibly sever some of the connectors. (2) The second weak point is that it will stick out quite a ways from your laptop/pc and because of its fragility it could easily get accidentally bent. If I still had my cats this adapter would NOT last very long as they would find this protruding object an irresistible plaything. Then again, I might be the one to knock into the adapter with my leg, or worse, my foot as I cross or uncross my legs near my PC, and.... good-bye adapter! IN SPITE of all this, the ELUTENG M.2 SSD Enclosure Adapter worked flawlessly as long as I handled it with care. Plus, this little adapter is a STEAL at $20! Just one more thing, ELUTENG; can you please make the NEON BLUE LED 50% less bright? OMG! It literally lights up a room in the darkness!
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