ORICO M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure, USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps), Transparent External Solid State Drive Adapter Enclosure for 2280 2260 2242 2230 PCI-E M2 M-Key SSD, USB Type C Converter Case-TCM2 Black

I love these cases. Easy to work with and their colors make them easy to identify.

It is a little complicated to to put together, however, it does work fine. Just follow the paper instructions, one end is in English and it should work. Good so far. Thanks.

Worked fine for just over a month with our SSDs and server, but then we had two of the enclosures fail suddenly. Will try a different brand going forward.Edit: Very pleased with Orico's response, they offered a full refund for the enclosures. The third enclosure we purchased is still working just fine.

Easy enough to install though getting the drive to sit properly on the little plastic shelves while reinstalling it was fiddly and meant taking it apart to realign it a few times.The biggest drawback is the status LED on the main board. HOLY HECK it's like they took the bulb out of the bat signal. The light is blue, faces up at the very corner of the housing and strobes like nuts whenever the drive is being accessed. I initially had the intention of having this on my desk next to me to appreciate how good it looks with the clear housing but yikes it's unbearable. I had to hide it behind a potplant and even then the wall behind it looks like a techno rave. Might look to put a dab of opaque hot glue onto the diode to soften the light a bit.It was nice that Orico includes in the kit everything needed to install the drive, including a USB-C to USB-C cable. It would be nice if these cable were softer though, as they are very chunky and stiff.Performance has been great and the heat sink does a good job, but I think it would be a good idea to get the version with the built-in fan because the heat sink can get extreeeemely hot when the drive is doing a lot of read/writes - too hot touch really, so not ideal for a portable drive if you plan on putting this back in your bag or pocket when you're done unless you can give it 5 minutes to cool down beforehand.

This is cheap, compared to most using this chip, and it feels like it. From the pictures of their current Kickstarter campaign it apparently to be the same board, just in a less appealing case. I included some photos for size comparison.Truly tool free, which could be a plus for swapping SSDs quickly. That said, the little plastic piece (they included 2) thats used to hold the drive down via the typical screw slot, it fits some drives well, but for others it need some extra fuss as it seems the gap to slot the screw slot into is a bit narrow for for some drives. Also, because of its design, and their included and recommended thermal pad, the little plastic piece can interfere with the pad. NBD if not swapping SSD frequently, but if you do and the pad drys over time as they tend to (and may be more likely here because of the air movement) it may damage the look of the pad over time.I find the recommendation to use the pad a bit odd. It does not contact the heatsink. There is a good sized gap between a properly applied pad and the heatsink. When I asked about thisni was told it was by design, to allow airflow, but they didn't really explain why, then, a pad was recommended at all.Unfortunately this was, for me, unusable. During testing I would get frequent hanging, disconnections, and inconsistent performance. When connecting directly any intensive data transfer would cause a BSOD shutdown. The BSOD shutdown could be avoided by connecting via a dock, but the PC needed to be restarted or the drive unplugged and plugged back in to regain access to it.Testing speeds was all over the place. When working its best it seemed no faster than the older and, IMO, MUCH more well built M2V01-C4. Sometimes it would report, via CrystalDiskMark, crasy fast read speeds, like 24,000MB/s, but while the rest of the test would appear to run results would report 0 and the drive would be inaccessible afterward. That is, unless it was connected directly in which case it'd cause a BSOD shutdown.I worked with support to resolve these issue, but eventually, after much wasted time, they simply said it seemed like some strange and unknowable incompatibility issue (even though other devices/cases with the same chip work fine) and suggested I return this. For you, it may be worth avoiding altogether.