Welcome viewers. These days solid-state drives or SSDs for short provide lightning data-transfer
speeds and very large storage capacity. But these were only available via portable hard drives
PCI express cards and the ever-popular M.2 NVME SSDs for desktops and laptops.
But there is a new way to enjoy the speed and capacity of solid-state storage in a portable
enclosure that allows you to change the size and type of SSD and allows you use it on regular USB
A and USB type C ports in one assembly. Introducing the M.2 NVME SSD enclosure.
This enclosure allows you to use various types of M.2 SSD cards
and allows you to access their storage via USB on Windows Mac OS Linux and Android devices.
So in this video I’ll do a simple unboxing I’ll show you how to install an
M.2 SSD into it and connect it to a couple of devices to confirm its compatibility
and to test its read and write speeds. So don’t go anywhere that’s up next.
Welcome back. In this purchase the box contains the enclosure itself a pack containing a screw
driver a spacer for the SSD and a screw to security the board. And you get a user manual.
Its design consists of an aluminum housing for securing the M.2 SSD and for efficient
heat dissipation. To one end has a USB 3.1 type A connector and at the other end has a USB type C.
To disassemble the enclosure to access its M.2 SSD port to the end that has the USB C connector
there is a clip that you remove by pushing in an upward direction
indicated by the arrows. This will allow you to easily slide out its interior component.
So this is what the inside looks like and it’s a simple circuit board with your M.2 SSD connector.
This connector supports three types of M.2 SSD key types.
These include type M type M&B combination and type M SATA as indicated here in the diagram.
And it supports 2280 2260 and 2242 SSD types. Up to 2 TB maximum.
Installing an SSD into the enclosure is very simple.
First insert your SSD into the M.2 slot. Next using the included spacer place it
into the groove at the end of the SSD and line it up with screw-hole allocated for your SSD type.
Next using the included screwdriver and screw
from below attached the screw to spacer to secure it in place.
Then slide the assembly into the housing and attach the clip to secure in place.
So now that I have assembled this enclosure I’ll now connect it to a couple of devices and compare
its read and write speeds. Installed in this enclosure is a Realtek 2280 RTL 9210B NVME SSD and
depending on which device and port it’s connected to it has the potential for read speeds of up to
900 MB/s and write speeds up to 600 MB/s maximum. Here I have it connected to a powerful Windows 11
mini-PC from ACE magician and when connected to its USB type C port and using the crystal
disk benchmark app it shows that through this enclosure it has a read speed of
565 MB/s and a write speed of 512. And when connected to its USB 3.1 port
it has a read speed of 564 MB/s and a write speed of 505. Which is slightly lower than the type C
port but that is expected as type C has higher data-transfer rates.
So that confirms its compatibility with Windows devices. Now I’ll connect it to a
high-end Android TV box and let’s take a look at its read and write speeds.
On Android boxes due to its lower CPU and RAM processing speeds compared to Windows
PCs when connected to this enclosure it scored 233 MB/s read speed and 43 MB/s write speed.
So as mentioned a while ago due to the type of device you are using the speeds will vary.
The good news is the enclosure is detectable under Android.
If your Android cell phone uses a USB type C port you can connect this enclosure directly to it and
access files music videos and documents. So when connected to this mobile phone
it has a read speed of 313 MB/s and a write speed of 216 MB/s.
Though it can connect to mobile cell phones it’s a bit inconvenient to have
it as a long protrusion while connected. The inclusion of a flexible Type C extension cable
would be useful in this instance to tuck it behind your mobile phone while in use.
So viewers that brings to one end my review. This enclosure removes the limitation faced by
conventional flash drives such as limited storage and a slow data-transfer speeds
and opens up the throttle to modern high-speed data transfer via USB.
So if you are interested in this model you can grab one
using the link in the description below this video for only $16.
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