M.2 to USB Adapter

Summary: It just works as it should, with no frustrations. I needed this M.2 SSD holder to clone my laptop's 128GB drive to a larger SSD drive. The 1st USB board I purchased was unreliable and flaky and I gave up after 4 hrs (search for other reviews by me if you are curious which "recommended by Amazon" board you should AVOID). This one worked perfectly 1st time with zero issues. The retention hardware shipped with this board was easier to use. (Harder to find, it was buried in the bottom of the anti-static bag and almost missed it). You will need a small tip Phillips head screwdriver. I have several sets, and the replacement SSD and the hard case I purchased for future use for the old SSD both came with one. Recommended. 6/11/20 follow-up: I used it to make a backup image of another drive and move it to a separate offline storage. Worked smooth and fast.

and while it has one single memory chip in an area where they coulda put 3 more , it fits the full length. I like that you can split it to fit. One thing I'm not too font of is the M2 drive ends up on the bottom instead of the top , so it'd only work best if you have a sideways usb port. Otherwise it's bottom heavy and puts straing on a vertical usb port. Was interesting that my M2 has 3 RED led's on it that nobody will ever see when it's inside the laptop. But hey it supports a 1 TB SSD. Mines an off brand called Neo Forza. Not much is known of them but they do have a website. As my HP is in for service. I removed all the drives as it had nothing to do with actual hard ware, just the laptop housing had issues. So for privacy issues I removed the drives. The mechanical had to be removed because it has several Pending sectors , and for now had to be reformatted in full to get rid of them. Overall I'm really please especially with the price

I was seeking an M.2 USB 3.0 adapter to boot a TrueNAS operating system from, so I bought this and the most affordable 128GB B+M M.2 drive I could off Amazon. With these bought, I assembled the lot and plugged them into the internal USB 3.0 connector of my Supermicro motherboard. I then spent a whole evening trying to figure out if the M.2 was dead or not, as nothing would allow it to boot - including the 2.0 connectors on the motherboard itself. I then bit the bullet for a $20 adapter with better reviews - and the SSD worked and booted without issue. Further testing with a second SSD proved that this adapter wasn't working at all. Plus, the breakaway PCB had already partially broken away by the time it arrived. Don't fall for the cheap price. Get one of the $20 variety and forget this one even exists. It's e-waste out of the box.

The board itself is kinda flimsy and for NVE drives with one notch, this did not seem to work. In order to plug the drive in, I had to turn my drive upside down and it did not register. Another drive I had had 2 notches and that finally worked. It's also very tough to actually plug the drive in at least the first 2 or 3 times. Once you get past those issues, it worked like a charm and I was able to get my drive cloned and working in about 20 minutes! Just be very delicate with this, a little too much force and you will snap it like a toothpick

This little device worked perfectly, and helped me salvage a computer that I thought was beyond repair. My second PC stopped at the BIOS during boot and wouldn't respond. I thought it was a hardware failure, since usually you can at least open the BIOS. I figured this was affordable enough to at least connect the SSD and see if it would work. It worked perfectly. I connected a Windows 10 SSD harddrive to a Windows 10 desktop and was able to browse my old harddrive and salvage my files without issue! I was even able to repair it enough to boot and reinstall Windows on the laptop which I thought was dead. This was a great purchase. Please note -- this device has no covering. It is sensitive to static, so make sure any static is discharged from your body by touching a metal surface on the ground before touching this device. (The same as you would with any internal component.)

Works great with an old 128 gig SATA m.2 drive, the drive didn't work in my NVMe drive adapter

the simple controller for my collection of SATA NGFF m.2 SSD drives works good enough for my needs. notice the full specs i stated, this is NOT for PCIE or NVME devices, and i will bet money that the ones most couldn't get it to work, were using those different standards, and should remove reviews containing the iD10t errors. that being said, this is a generic low cost board, and yeah, they may have gotten a DOA, and im sure the seller will refund/replace. and yes, all of these standards can be confusing, just double check you are ordering what you need. my device is oh so slightly misaligned but that doesn't prevent any of the pins from making contact and doing the job, closer inspection and i noticed the perforations that allow you to crack off the unused section of the board if you are not needing the full 80mm screw length. and the included extra screws that came with mine made me confident that this device will be a great workbench tool for some of my recovery operations.

I thought it was a good idea of getting this adapter with the little tools that go with it so I can put the hard drive in it. My problem is it’s very hard to unscrew screws to open it to get the hard drive into it so far that’s my only problem with it. I don’t know how it works until I get the hard drive into the case the adapter.