SABRENTUSB Type-C 3-Port Gaming Hub for Steam Deck | 5Gbps USB 3.2, Dual USB-A Ports, PD Charging, Compact Design (HB-STDK)

Simple little device that turns a stick of storage into an external drive. Ideal for use when cloning a drive -- I got it to clone my son's 512GB drive to a 2TB drive. The device is basically an enclosure and a giant heat sink, with a good sized silicon pad inside to get the heat off the flash chips and into the metal case. It's also well engineered and solidly built from (I assume) aluminum. During the transfer process, which involved 512GB of writes, the enclosure got quite warm -- about as hot as a charging laptop will get on the bottom -- but that's part of the design spec for these solid state drives, and this device is designed to radiate that heat, which is does. Overall a really flawless and easy to use experience. I doubt it gets as hot in normal use -- that was a special stress-test case.

Super easy to use—just snap the drive in, close it, and you’re set. No screws or hassle. Speeds are fast, and it handles big file transfers without issues. Feels solid, doesn’t overheat, and works like it should. Great option if you need a simple M.2 enclosure.

This unit os great - ty LTT - I keep a licensed windows copy on one and use it boot most pc's with limited issue. Settings mainly.While not as quick as a live linux distro, not everyone is comfortable using using a LLD. Beyond that drive stays cool, is fast enough in 99 out of 100 cases, and built tough

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 external enclosure, with the only downside being the cable is built in and a bit short I can see some use case gripes if you're not using it primarily for a laptop. But, for the price, the form factor and weight of the enclosure being so light, makes any of the minor use case issues negligible.Despite some of the aforementioned minor faults, transfer speeds are great, it's easy to use, build quality is a nice metal finish and it served my need to clone my 2024 surface laptop 2230 SSD to a larger installed SSD.Now I used the the 2230 SSD that was included in my Surface laptop as a work drive for offloading local files!

This M2 SSD enclosure is a no tools required good value enclosure. Everything is easy and quick in mounting the M2 SSD and the entire rig displays quality.

I really like this enclosure. It's very easy to open and close, and the case really is tool-less unless you're installing a shorter SSD. It worked flawlessly with my western digital black SN850X 8TB drive and has plenty of room for a double-sided SSD. The only real drawback is that the enclosure only comes with thermal transfer tape on one side so the back/bottom side isn't cooled, and the thermal tape didn't seem to really touch the SSD very much so the thermal transfer setup probably needs a little fiddling to really help cool the SSD. But other than this, it worked very well. Recommended!

Could not be easier to use. open, insert m.2 ssd (heat sink pre-installed), close, connect usb-c to drive and device. Couldn’t have taken more than 2-3 minutes total. So very simple and fast. Getting almost 1 GB per second transfer speed on an iMac, reading and writing.