Sabrent USB 3.2 Type-C Tool-Free Enclosure for M.2 PCIe NVMe and SATA SSDs (EC-SNVE)

I bought this enclosure for $26.99 here, on Amazon. Amazon initially lost the enclosure in the mail, but after contacting Amazon, they sent out a replacement with free overnight shipping, no questions asked. A+ for Amazon Customer Support. Now, onto the actual enclosure: This thing is fantastic! The tool-less opening makes perfect sense, and the rubber garment to hold down your M.2 drive is genius. You won't find any screws here, which means that you can easily and quickly swap M.2s in and out of the enclosure should you need to. Performance is as advertised: Pairing the enclosure with a 2TB HP EX950 (Which is more SSD than this enclosure needs, but I got it for $200 on r/hardwareswap. I would recommend a WD Blue SN550 if you're looking at buying a new dedicated drive to put in the enclosure specifically.), I consistently hit the advertised speeds of the enclosure. Perhaps the best feature of this device, however, is that it is effectively driverless. Plug and play worked seamlessly on each operating system I have tested (Windows and Linux). Furthermore, the computer has direct access to the drive! The enclosure doesn't impose any sort of middle-man to hide the hardware, which means that you can use this enclosure to read SMART data from drives utilizing a program like CrystalDiskInfo. The ability to read SMART data from the enclosure is incredible! As someone who is constantly buying and selling hardware, this feature alone makes the purchase worth it. The only "downside" to this enclosure is not one explicitly of the enclosure, but rather one which stems from the nature of running a PCIe device in a closed metal box: this will be dependent on the drive you choose to put in the enclosure, but generally speaking, it will get HOT. However, this is a good thing as it means that the enclosure is effective in pulling the heat from the drive. It does mean, though, that you will have to be careful. One could feasibly burn themselves depending on how they handle the enclosure when it is under load. So, all that being said: When I set out to buy an NVME M.2 enclosure, I was looking at this and the Anker equivalent. I ultimately went with this once, given Sabrent's generally positive reputation in the PC building community as a storage manufacturer and the heatsink design of this enclosure, and I am glad that I did. I don't think I would be comfortable running the drive much hotter than it is now. If you are planning on running a drive that's cooler than a 2TB HP EX950 (like maybe an SN550 or an SK Hynix P31), then perhaps another enclosure would work. Still, I recommend this one. The design is logical, and the heatsink is exceptionally effective, the enclosure is very compact, and 1000 mb/s is well worth it if you frequently move files between devices. I highly recommended this M.2 enclosure.

My Alienware laptop had a pretty small SSD hard drive. Realizing that it had two slots available, I bought a Crucial P310 2TB SSD to install for more storage. Well, the joke was on me, because Dell split the 512 GB drive supposedly installed in the system into two 256 GB drives. Probably to save money. That meant I had no expansion slot. Enter the Sabrent USB 3.2 Type-C Tool-Free Enclosure for M.2 PCIe NVMe to the rescue. With it, I was able to connect the new SSD and use the EaseUS Disk Copy Pro utility to perform a sector-by-sector copy of the boot partition to the new SSD. The whole process, from unboxing to snapping the new drive into the laptop, took maybe 25 minutes. The laptop booted perfect on the new drive, and you'd never know anything was changed. The best part of all is that I still have a second SSD slot if I need even more storage someday. I almost didn't go with this model, as I had just the previous day requested to return a SABRENT Enclosure 3.5” Internal SATA Hard Drives (EC-KSL3), as it had been freezing up on me. But this Sabrent Enclosure for M.2 PCIe NVMe and SATA SSDs (EC-SNVE) worked like a charm. Super easy to use, no problems at all, fast, cool, quiet. I would most definitely buy it again.

First and foremost, it works as advertised! Just plug an M2 SSD in, close the door, connect to computer, use windows Disk Management tool, configure the SSD, DONE. Afterwards, it shows as an external drive. It's got an external aluminum body which makes it sturdy and works as a heat sink. As such, it gets warm to the touch which is to be expected. It's about 4-5/8" (11.7 cm) long and 1-1/4" (3.2 cm) width and 1/2" (1.2 cm) thick, so it's very small and portable, and so MUCH more convenient than a common USB memory stick. It comes with a small USB-C to USB-C cable. Tested on my HP laptop with USB 3, I get 523 MB/s sequential read speed 192 MB/s write. This of course depends on so many things that it's only useful to show that it works fast. Your conditions can be much better or much worse. Be sure to use a USB 3 port for maximum speed.

This feels like a well made product. The top of the case appears to be aluminum metal but the bottom tray is plastic. The tray is hinged at one end and can be opened like a clamshell at the other end. The star ratings for this product do not relate to the intended purpose of what this adapter does. The three star ratings are for Capacity, For gaming, and Easy to Install. The first two have nothing to do with what this product does so be cautious of looking simply as star ratings. There is no capacity because it's a drive adapter and does not come with a drive. Also, I don't see how this could be used specifically for gaming other than transporting saved game files or install files This product is an M.2 Solid State Drive (SSD) ADAPTER. M.2 is a style of SSD that mounts directly to the motherboard of a computer. When not connected to a motherboard, you can't access the drive without an adapter such as this. The underside of the top lid has a kind of thermal tape which presumably transfers heat to the aluminum lid and is dispersed. While the top of the lid has grooves which "look" somewhat like heat fins, they are too small to really do anything. I mention all of this because this product can get quite warm to the touch. There are three screw options for different sized M.2 drives like the 42mm version. The adapter does come with a single screw for this type of mounting. Whar this product does not come with and which you may need is a USB C (female) to USB (Male) adapter. The product comes with an 8 inch USB C male to male cable. Without the aforementioned adapter, you can't connect it to you PC unless you have a USB C port on your computer. One thing you want to be careful of is not to try to open the adapter while the USB C cable is attached. When the cable is attached, it blocks the hinge from rotating and you could damage the cable or the female connector inside the adapter. I would not use this as a portable drive as it gets too hot for my liking and there are far better options for this. The reason I bought it is that my M.2 drive that was my C drive on my PC became damaged and would not load windows. There were files on that drive that I wanted to retrieve so this adapter basically turned it into a large USB drive and I was able to get then without issue. Hope that helps. This product did what it said and overall I am happy with its performance.

I bought this Sabrent branded enclosure because I planned to upgrade my daughter's HP Pavilion "Gaming" PC model 790-0010. I also bought this HP PC from Amazon circa June 2018. The stock loadout of this HP PC had a 1TB WD Blue SATA HDD. Not too long into the life cycle of this HP PC, I bought a WD Blue M.2 SATA 512 GB SSD and installed it into the HP PC's vacant M.2 socket and migrated the WD Blue 1TB HDD "boot" drive to the M.2 SATA SSD and turned the WD Blue 1TB HDD into a data drive. This gave a nice performance boost to this HP PC. Fast forward October 2023 and my daughter is telling me how the 512GB SSD is always full. My daughter who is not overly PC savvy didn't even realize that the 1TB HDD was still there for data storage of things like pics, videos and things of that nature. Still, she managed to fill her 512GB M.2 SSD with Steam and Blizzard games and needed more space. I purchased a 2TB Crucial P3 drive during Amazon's "Prime Day in October 2023" event. Per Crucial's website this NVME drive would work in the HP PC even though it was NVME and not M.2 SATA. I used Clonezilla Live via bootable USB thumb stick to clone the M.2 SATA SSD to the M.2 NVME Crucial drive. So let's talk about the Sabrent enclosure. I selected this because it supports BOTH M.2 SATA and M.2 NVME drives. Other products that I saw supported one or the other but not both. I also have other Sabrent products such as usb to SATA/IDE cables for connecting drives via USB. The handful of Sabrent products appear to be of good quality. They may cost a few bucks more but I like the piece of mind of having a quality product. The enclosure is easy to open up and install a M.2 drive into. Here is my minor quibble and why I removed one star from a perfect 5 from my rating. And this is more on me an not Sabrent. So the product page on Amazon has pictures of the product and has a product video that is officially from Sabrent with a guy named Mike in it. The guy says his name is Mike so I assume that's his name. Mike is happily demoing and showing off the enclosure. It's a great video and I am glad to have watched it. That said, it falsely put me under an impression about the product's use that was not true. To be clear though, the false impression that I was under is clearly documented in the included enclosure product manual. Had I consulted the enclosure manual first, I would have had no confusion. Still, Mike's charisma and charm were intoxicating and I was instantly captivated and trusting of anything Mike was telling me about this enclosure. During the video, Mike claimed that this enclosure supports multiple size M.2 drives. To accomodate this , the video indicates how easy it is to move the "locking pin/nub" to the appropriate locking hole in the enclosure so you can accommodate those shorter M.2 drives. Fantastic! This is great! So the video gave me the impression that regardless of the size of the M.2 drive you are working with, you will have to install a locking pin/nub into the correct locking hole to hold your drive in place so as to close the enclosure. This is not the case. I gather that most M.2 drives are of the 2280 size and the enclosure has permanently installed a turning locking pin at the front of the enclosure that will lock a 2280 sized drive in place. The included locking pin/nub for a shorter drive is in the packaging but not needed nor installed by default in the enclosure. The vide with Mike in it gave me the impression that the locking pin/nub had to be manually removed and reinserted each time a drive was put into the enclosure. That is not the case. Again, the manual calls this out clearly. But I didn't look at the manual because Mike told me everything I needed to know. When it became clear that the turning locking pin/numb in the enclosure is not removeable and then when I consulted the manual, it all made sense. So the confusion is clearly on my end. I should have looked at the manual first. That aside, this is a great product. If you need to clone an M.2 drive to another M.2 drive, you need this in your PC toolbox. I wish the enclosed USB C to USB C cable was a tad longer but not a big deal. I would happily buy more of these and use them as glorified thumb sticks for discarded M.2 drives I have from other upgrades. Great product. Thanks again, Mike! I still trust and believe in you.

Very satisfied with this Sabrent m.2 enclosure... the fact that it is tool free to swap out the m.2 drives is great for anyone that needs to do so. It would have been nice if they included a usb-a to usb-c cable (they only include usb-c to usb-c) but fortunately for me I have several usb-a to usb-c cables from other enclosures that I can use. The enclosure feels solid and so far (for the past 6+ months), it has been working well.

Most products have clearly recognized brand names, making the buying decisions a bit easier between the usually more expensive brands and the cheaper no-names. The buyer’s best advice is usually you get what you pay for. Although not a household name, Sabrent is generally regarded as on of the most trusted brands of this kind of SSD enclosure. So when I needed one this week, but only for one task to clone my computer’s internal drive, I looked for this brand expecting to pay a premium price. I was pleasantly surprised to find this model down in the same price range as some of the ones with the really low ratings. What was I giving up over the Sabrent I bought last year for sixty bucks? WHAT’S THE CATCH If you put them side by side the difference is night and day. The premium model is much heavier, made of almost 100% aircraft grade aluminum while this model is part aluminum and part PVC plastic. But I also put this side by side with a really bad one that I didn’t even want to touch again, mainly because it was literally too hot to hold - imagine what it was doing to the expensive SSD inside. By comparison this one is much cooler, okay not as cool as the one that cost three times as much but at least it’s not going to set off any smoke alarms. Let’s face it, the two really important things are how cool it keeps the drive that it encloses and how fast the electronics inside let it communicate with your computer. A side benefit is being reasonably priced and it doesn’t hurt that it looks good. TOOL FREE if you’re going to put your SSD in an enclosure and never touch it again you can ignore this section. But if you have any intent of swapping the chip out a couple of times or more tool free can be a big issue. Why aren’t they all that way? There’s actually a good reason, if this enclosure is intended to safeguard your data drive through travel, exposure to the elements, prying hands, etc. having one that seals solidly shut is a good thing. This one is a prime example of superb design and simplicity. I only had to push one button to pop it open, slide the SSD into place and swivel a little plastic locking mechanism, no screws are needed. Then snap the lid shut and it’s ready to go. THE MISSING PIECE I have read the one star reviews that won’t accept this product because it doesn’t include the tiny set-screw. I’m not sure how to even react to that. Know this - it’s not needed, there is no place to use it. If you are using one of the shorter variants of SSD there is a small plastic plug to hold it in place, otherwise that’s what the full contact cover is designed to do. YES OR NO Data protection is no trivial matter. That’s not to say that this enclosure will protect the data on the drive it houses but it does play a part in the equation. This one works as it should and I couldn’t even imagine trying to save a couple of bucks to go with a no-name one like I did last time and nearly fried my drive. This is a winner.

I needed an enclosure that could handle the blistering speeds of my new Samsung 990 EVO SSD while keeping my workflow portable. The key requirement was simple: it had to be reliable for demanding tasks like video editing and music production. Installation: Truly Tool-Free and Instant The SABRENT USB 3.2 Type-C Tool-Free Enclosure (EC-SNVE) lived up to its name perfectly. The installation was truly a matter of seconds. Zero Hassle: No tiny screws, no specialized tools, and no fiddling required. I simply opened the housing, inserted the M.2 NVMe drive, and slid the cover back on. The entire process took less than a minute. Secure Fit: Despite the tool-free design, the drive sits securely inside, giving me confidence that my valuable assets are protected. Performance: The Ultimate Bridge This enclosure acts as a perfect bridge, ensuring that the incredible speed of the Samsung 990 EVO is fully utilized by the USB 3.2 Type-C connection. High-Demand Use: I use this enclosure to house the drive that stores all my APFS-formatted video project files and assets. It maintains a consistent, high-speed connection that is essential for real-time editing on my Macs. There is zero throttling, and the speed is equivalent to an internal drive. Compatibility: The fact that it supports both PCIe NVMe and SATA SSDs makes it a versatile choice for anyone looking to repurpose old drives or install the latest high-performance models. The Final Verdict When choosing an enclosure for a premium drive, you want convenience without sacrificing performance or safety. The Sabrent EC-SNVE delivers on all counts. If you need a simple, durable, and lightning-fast home for your M.2 SSD, this enclosure is the definitive choice. No complaints whatsoever.