UGREEN M.2 NGFF SSD Aluminum Enclosure, USB C 3.1 M2 Caddy, External USB C M2 SATA Drive Enclosure Case for B+M/B Key NGFF SSD 2230/2242/2260/2280, Compatible with Crucial WD EVO PS4 Xbox Laptop

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Don't forget that having ultimate external drive performance won't help the source drive be any faster than whatever its interface is limited to.

SABRENT M.2 SATA SSD to SATA 2.5 Enclosure Adapter, M.2

Next is the fastest USB thumb drive I own. These predate me having the USB External M2 adapters. So I used to use them for salvage. Most of the time now they run various bootable things. But the read/write speeds are still impressive for a true USB Thumb drive. Sandisk Extreme 64GB (CZ80)BUT under heavy load it would disconnect 10/10 times after only a few seconds. Transferring files to and from the drive at the same time will trigger this, as well using it as a cache while video editing. The included cables were shorter than the ICY BOX and of poor quality. I actually couldn't get the included USB 3 cable to work at all unless I held it into my computer. At this point in my life I'm guessing my USB cable counter has likely surpassed 1000 cables and I have never had to do this before. I don't have any of the benchmark screen shots, I'd have to grab a virgin drive and test to snag them. Now installing the kit 750-ABDF can be a real problem, as Dell provides no instructions with the kit, and the Dell instructional videos allegedly installing the kit are not helpful (worthless in my opinion), there is no instruction in the 5820T user manual, and I could not find any helpful stuff on the internet (specifically, where the cables connect to the system board.

M.2 NVME NGFF SSD Enclosure Adapter, Tool-free Lemorele M.2 NVME NGFF SSD Enclosure Adapter, Tool-free

The original SATA protocol was designed to maximize the performance of platter (physical spinning) hard drives. With the proliferation of SSD drives, the SATA storage management protocol has become a limiting factor. The NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory) protocol has been designed for solid state drives and uses the PCIe bus for optimal performance. An M.2 drive may support SATA or PCIe/NVMe but not both. Depending on the drive, and what the computer can support, not all M.2 drives work in all computers.

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Generally if the drive is readable I'll boot off a custom WinPE disk I built and run USMT to salvage the user profile data to a compressed MIG store. Then I'll replace the drive or laptop, re-image, and restore the salvaged profile. So the faster the drive is the faster I can complete these tasks. Which makes users happier. I've been using a M2 Sata enclosure, but I also have 2.5" external cables that let me plug a 2.5" directly into a USB port. Of all three the Shinestar M.2 was the hottest enclosure. Even just sitting idle the enclosure was uncomfortably hot to the touch. It also suffered from random disconnects and at times would not mount.