SABRENT M.2 SATA SSD to 2.5 Inch SATA III Aluminum Enclosure Adapter (EC-M2SA) [Not NVMe]

I had a spare m.2 SATA drive (emphasis on SATA which I'll get back to) and a failing 2.5" SATA drive in a PC. Buying a new 2.5" drive would have cost me around $25 at the time vs. spending just under $10 for this adapter. I ended up buying the adapter, placing the m.2 SATA SSD inside it, closing it up, and then cloned the original drive to this one. After that I installed this inside the PC. 5 years later and the SSD and PC are working perfectly fine.I look through the reviews and I see a common theme. Stupidity and ignorance. There should be absolutely no reason why this device should be your failure point. The main complaints about this is regarding NVMe drive not working. First of all, there is a difference between SATA, NVMe, and m.2. m.2 is the form factor for your drive. NVMe and SATA are types of interfaces used for connecting storage devices. You can have a m.2 drive that is SATA or NVMe (not both). Most m.2 drives are NVMe, but back in the early days of m.2, there were a lot of SATA m.2 drives. However, you can't use a basic adapter like this to take a NVMe drive and "convert" it to a SATA drive to use with a SATA 2.5" drive connector.To anyone who isn't clueless regarding that, and I don't see how this should keep happening with Sabrent clearly listing this as "not NVMe" in the product title nowadays, I can assure you this thing is rock solid form my experience. The main reason this has a 4.3 instead of a near 5.0 review score is because of the ignorant people who bought this for their NVMe drives and don't know the difference between interfaces.

Delivered in one day makes my laptop run like new.

Very good product, but the only drawback is that it is slightly larger than a real 2.5-inch mechanical hard drive, which makes it impossible to fit into some cramped spaces. Very excellent product

I guess it was a pretty good value for the price.... note it has 4 TINY screws on the edges to hold it together (plus the slightly larger M.2 hold down screw, so if you don't like tiny screws this isn't the one for you...Personally, I was looking for something a bit more "open air" as I'm sure this enclosure did hold in some heat, but it lasted a good while...It worked great for 4 years and 7 months of fairly light home use (used it on a secondary drive that was just used for some extra photo storage not any heavy use like gaming. Note: I did not use a heatsink pad and that potentially could have affected the life.

Comes with a screwdriver to help you install it as well, worked fine. No issues detecting the drive.

I needed something to put my M.2 NVMe Samsung 990 PRO into so I could use it in my docking station that does not have the M.2 NVMe connector on it. This seemed to fit the bill when I purchased it.Got it out of the box and it took me a few minutes to figure out how to open it. Since it had a screw driver I figured it has screws that need to be taken out like other enclosures, but nope. There is a small clear piece of plastic you pull on to remove the cover. That's better than screws but they could have mentioned this in the manual.Next I try to put my M.2 into the slot and I find that it won't fit. This piece of junk has the tab that goes in between the two rows of pins too far to one side, so it hits the wide row of pins rather than sliding into the slot. Or the bracket is too small and the M.2 can't go to the right far enough as it hits the wall of the bracket. Maybe cheap Chinese M.2 drives fit in this, but none of my Samsung M.2's will.Total waste of money and time.

Candidly, I'd begun to consider using a SATA external after some bad experience with a couple of new thumb drives from another "Name brand" manufacturer. After reading a number of reviews about other USB thumb drives, one might wonder if the market has adapted any new manufacturing process? such that it may not be working out really well for the thumb drive user.Not to speculate, though, this encosure from Sabrent - using this together with a Kingspec 128 GB SSD card - is working out surprisingly well, even over USB 2.In my own experience with this enclosure, I've built and installed a FreeBSD 12.1 OS to the SSD card. Under some moderate interactive desktop usage - mostly, so far, using Chromium and the Mate desktop, all locally built and installed to this external storage device, moreover using Windows 7 in a Virtual VM image on the same - it's very responsive for I/O under such normal interactive desktop applications. even over USB 2.Although in my own usage case, the OS support may not seem perfectly stellar - the UASP support in the OS is limited and under development, also no apparent trim support in the OS itself, moreover I'm not altogether certain about how the OS' normal UNIX-like filesystem works out for USB devices - but with some moderate filesystem maintenance, I'm certain this may continue to work out in a longer term, for purposes of external storage.Beyond the heuristics of this particular usage case, Sabrent has clearly put some caring consideration into so much as the design of the USB cable, itself.By contrast, I've had a remarkably bad time with an external disk from one "Name Brand" US manufacturer, almost entirely due to the manufacturer's apparently poor choice of USB cabling. The cable from the other manufacturer is touchy, spotty, and sometimes fails without warning. I'm certain that some of the internal media errors on the disk, now, may be due to that, in even partly so. A really bad experience with that other manufacturer's storage options, and in so much just due to the flaky USB cable.If it was in budget, to me, I'd be using this Sabrent enclosure model for all external storage, now.The cable included with this Sabrent enclosure - although it's in use on the enclosure itself, presently - it's even served to make that other external storage device into a usable thing, again.I'm considering picking up a PCI ExpressCard for this same laptop, such as to be able to use this enclosure and other storage devices via USB 3. Perhaps one could be able to contribute to the development of the OS' UASP/XHCI Streams support, at then. Meanwhile, I'm certain that this great enclosure from Sabrent will continue to work out well, with my local system configuration.