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Great looking (and working) enclosure

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2023

I have a Sabrent Rocket 4 2TB NVMe drive mounted inside this enclosure with the included Thunderbolt 4 certified cable to a Thunderbolt 4/USB 4 port on a MacBook Pro. It achieves 2.5-3.0 GB/ps in benchmarks. I have never seen throttling or heat issues, even when I filled it about 3/4 full initially. It is so much faster than SATA, HDD, and older SSDs that I've had that I question if I would ever want something faster. I hope they are still making and selling this the next time I need an external NVMe enclosure.

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T. C.

Does not support full speed with MacBook Pro M1Pro

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2023

With SK Hynix P3 does not run full speed RW connected to a MacBook Pro M1 Pro. Compatible and will work, but not support nearly the advertised speed. When it runs hot, the speeds are dismal. The write speed is 10% of the spec and the read speed is normal. The alternative enclosure I purchased runs cooler and nearly full RW spec. Of course, compatible may have different meanings, such that one definition is the interface is compatible so that the device works but write is no better than a 10Gbps device. The alternative enclosure operates nearly (cannot expect full speed) at the specified speed.

Update: 04/18/2023
I was contacted by the seller and offered a refund. Seller stated reply with the word "Full refund" and So I did, as I cannot use the enclosure. I expected the generosity of Orico to follow through on the refund, but...
The, seller sent another message wanting to troubleshoot asking me for information on the MacBook Pro M1 Pro when the specs are readily available. I spent many hours troubleshooting, Orico, Apple, Windows and videos. There are some anomalies about the implementation of USB4 and TB4 on the M1 Pro that prevent optimal speed and the device runs hot. The Orico enclosure ran perfect on Windows 10 Intel TB3. I used a competitior enclosure for my MacBook Pro M1 Pro and performance is great.

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Great looking (and working) enclosure

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2023

Model: 40Gbps-GrayVerified Purchase

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Beemer geek

Easily supports several size SSDs

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2023

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I've used this ORICO M.2 NVME SATA SSD Enclosure Adapter with three different SSDs from 250GB to 2TB drives with no issues. I'm not using the heat sink for a 250GB SSD and it doesn't even get warm. The 2 TB Samsung SSD needed the inside heat sink pad with the enclosure closed up and gets slightly warm during a 20 minute cloning operation. Data transfer rate rate varies a bit but is essentially as advertised. The tiny screw closure isn't as convenient as a knob that you find on other brands but is consistently secure with multiple uses. Highly recommended.

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Abe I.

Peace of mind purchase

Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2023

Model: 10Gbps-SilverVerified Purchase

All-n-all this enclosure is one of the best if not the best value for the money - It does work beautifully with a 4TB nmve SSD and does not overheat - My only issue with it is, that using the USB-C one must bend the USB-A rubber strap hard because some ports are seated deeper in the system and the rubber gets in the way. If they made a groove to accommodate the rubber strap to move into that would work flawlessly.

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T. C.

Does not support full speed with MacBook Pro M1Pro

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2023

Model: 40Gbps-GrayVerified Purchase

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Anon Imouse

Works fine, dumb thermal design

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2023

Model: 10Gbps-SilverVerified Purchase

EDIT: I got a set of really nice and thick aftermarket thermal interface pads. Now it’s pretty nice. I got these pads: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BQJGY7H4 - the heavy grey, 13 mW/K or whatever ones. I’ve now got a 2mm pad from the drive to the bottom panel of the enclosure, a 2mm pad from the drive to the host pcb, and a 2mm pad from the host pcb to the top of the case. It’s now really heavy and dense in a very reassuring, high quality way.

No scientific measurements, sorry, but with a really nice thermal sandwich in there I feel reasonably confident it’s not going to kill my drives on sustained use. Going to buy another one. Keeping at 4 stars since the nice pads I bought aftermarket should have really came in the box at this price.

The plus side is this product actually has all the parts screw in top-to-bottom, with no sliding like most competing parts, so cramming in extra thick pads that guarantee good thermal contact is easy to do.

Original review:
Seems to work fine with an older NVME ssd. As others have mentioned, out of the box the thermal design is a real head-scratcher. I gave up trying to get it to work and just have the drive in there with no pads.

Plan on buying your own 3 or 4 pack of thermal interface pads if you want to put a really fast, hot SSD in there.

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PhilG

The perfect SSD enclosure!

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2023

Model: 40Gbps-GrayVerified Purchase

I really like and appreciate the included heat sink and heat-conductive padding. In heavy use of the drive, the case now gets fairly warm (about 50 degrees C on a MacBook), but the SSD (not included) works fine at these temps. Well made and nicely sized.

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K. Liu

Died after about 9 months of very light use

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2024

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This enclosure worked fine and looks very nice as well as being very inexpensive, but it simply stopped working after barely being used after 9 months - plugged in maybe a dozen times and kept unplugged when not in use. Drive inside was fine and was relocated to a different enclosure. This might have been a one-off quality issue but my confidence in ORICO drives is now shaken, which is a shame since they seem to make very solid looking enclosures with a wide variety of configurations.

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Wordfool

Decent enclosure but with some baffling design issues

Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2023

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Speeds are as advertised for a 1TB Samsung 970 Evo (I bought the 10Gbps version), controller seems to do its thing well enough, and the drive is recognized in by Samsung Magician software as a Samsung drive (unlike the equivalent Sabrent enclosure I tried that does not apparently enable this).

The problems are with the design of the enclosure. The SSD is installed in a way that results in its chips transferring their heat to the flat underside of the enclosure, which is weird, but since the entire enclosure is aluminum it should still dissipate heat throughout the entire case. Not an ideal design and I've no idea why Orico essentially designed the internals upside down, but it should still do the job.

The biggest problem is with the metal sleeve that is supposed to fit over the drive and thermal pad, and then makes contact with the external case for heat transfer: it is designed with grooves for the drive to slide into it, but the thermal pad supplied has adhesive on both sides so once applied you cannot slide anything. I had to bend the outer edges of the metal sleeve so it could just drop on top of the drive and make proper contact with the pad, otherwise it would sit on the drive at an angle so only half the pad made contact with it. The solution would be to either make the sleeve fractionally wider, or provide a thermal pad that's adhesive only on one side.

So it works OK overall as a drive enclosure, is physically solid, and looks nice, but the internals for mounting the drive are poorly designed and could be a lot better.

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M. C. Maxwell

Great Over Thunderbolt, Issue With USB

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2023

Model: 40Gbps-GrayVerified Purchase

I purchased a orico m234c3-u4 and installed a Western Digital 4 TB SN850X NVMe drive. I connected it using Thunderbolt 4 port, initialized it, created a single simple GPT partition and formatted it exFat. It works great and is blazing fast when connected via Thunderbolt, but when I connect via USB-C, it acts like the disk isn't partitioned. If I try to initialize/partition/format via USB connection, I get an error and the operation fails. I've tried via Disk Manager, AOMEI Partition Assistant, and via command line. I sent a message to Orico Tech Support, but never heard back from them. After researching the chips used in the device, I believe that the issue is that the Thunderbolt to NVMe controller that they use will work with 4 TB drives, but the USB to NVMe controller has a maximum drive limit of 2 TB. Since I installed and partitioned a 4TB drive, I'm only able to access / utilize it over Thunderbolt.

I'm willing to live with this because I really want the 4TB size and the incredible speed offered by this enclosure, but the inability to use the drive via USB for computers without Thunderbolt is really disappointing. If I could purchase a different enclosure without that problem, I definitely would.

On a side note, the top of the included NVMe heat transfer cover doesn't touch the aluminum enclosure cover when installed. In order to improve heat dissipation, I purchased thermal pads that I placed between the heat transfer cover and the enclosure cover. ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BQJGY7H4 )

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Todd R.

ORICO NVME M.2 enclosure.

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2023

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Great quality, easy installation of drive, insane read write spread compared to a standard designated external Ssd drive. Averages 2500 mb/s read and write which is awesome.

My only complaints would be the cost of the enclosure especially depending on what drive you choose to put in it and there really not being any sort of seal between the cover and the rest of the housing. I would not use this outdoors where there would be any possibility of any sort of moisture getting on it and possibly getting inside.

I also have the ASUS TUF A1 which is around $100 dollars cheaper, significantly slower at 900 read and 800 write, but has a rubber seal between the cover and the rest of the housing to keep the drive safe.

I would recommend the ORICO for anyone needing an external drive which will run around the same speeds as an internal drive and will use it in a more indoor/office type setting. I use this with my MacBook and it’s speed is pretty much the same as the internal.

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