ElecGear USB Mini Enclosure for 2230/2242 NVMe and SATA M.2 SSD, PCIe and Serial ATA Aluminum Housing Case with Magnet Cap, 10Gbps Flash Drive Internal Memory Stick Card Reader (NV-2242A)

I got the enclosure to repurpose an old NVMe SSD I had lying around, and it’s been great! I used a 2242 NVMe SSD, and it turned it into a superfast flash drive with transfer speeds up to 10Gbps. Seriously faster than any regular USB stick!The magnetic cap is a nice touch, and the aluminum housing feels sturdy but lightweight. It even comes with a thermal pad to help with heat, and the blue LED indicator looks cool when it’s plugged in.Note: This is just the case, so you’ll need to have your own SSD. But once you pop one in and you format it, you’re good to go, it is just plug and play.

Bought this after I bought a Sabrent 512GB Rocket 2242 NVMe SSD for a laptop but later on ended up not needing it. This enclosure makes for a great little portable SSD that ends up being quite a bit smaller than most other portable SSDs out there currently. Construction quality is fantastic being all metal. The SSD installation is straight-forward enough and so far it's been working great! Speeds will obviously differ depending on the SSD you use, but for me I got close-enough to the speeds the Sabrent drive is advertised for so I suspect the controller could handle much higher speeds with a more high-end SSD installed. Only word of warning is to make sure to install the included heat pad as at least in my case when transferring large files the enclosure can get a little hot. It's nothing you would end up burning yourself on, but it's clear the enclosure is also acting as a heatsink for the SSD. If you ended up using it as a portable bootable Linux or Windows drive I would imagine it could get a litter hotter with constant I/O. In any case it's a great inclosure if you have any extra 2242 SSDs laying around or if you really want to build your own portable USB SSD!

This adapter greatly exceeded my expectations. Installation of the NVME drive is simple, build quality is excellent, and performance is exactly as you would expect from an NVME drive over USB3. Windows recognizes it as a SCSI device (mine is the ElecGear NV-2242A) which supports TRIM commands.The all-aluminum case combined with the included heat pads makes for excellent heat spreading and dissipation. The design allows for a heat pad on both sides of the NVME drive which provides more area to dissipate heat. The aluminum case spreads the heat very evenly across the entire body of the adapter which cools the drive better than its normal environment inside a PC (with no heatsink on the typical 2230 NVME drive).With the prices of NVME drives continually dropping, this will be my go-to whenever I need a high-performance pocket drive. There's no reason to buy an expensive high-capacity "thumb drive" unless you absolutely require the small size. This adapter with a cheap NVME blows them all out of the water.EDIT: I had to reduce my rating by one star due to heat. The case, itself, works exceptionally well to spread and dissipate heat from the NVME drive. Unfortunately the drive, itself, produces much more heat in this adapter than it does in a proper NVME slot on a motherboard. I suspect voltage regulation is to blame, though I haven't found a way to directly measure the voltage.It could be my particular NVME drives (I bought multiple) but the heat issue isn't isolated to a single adapter or a single NVME drive.

Solidly built, this is now my travel "computer". I put in a NVME SSD and installed Windows To Go. The drive fits perfectly, the magnetic cover is strong. I can plug it to my work laptop or the hotel business center computer, boot from it and I'm ready to use my own computer, my backpack is lighter!

Great speeds, good quality and a great size USB drive for the performance. Gets pretty warm after a few minutes.

Got a 2TB 2230 drive for my Steamdeck and put my old 512GB in here and it has been working great for a boot drive with Ventoy and also for backing up PCs. It has a heat transfer pad included to protect the drive. Gets a little hot to touch during big transfers but keeps the drive from thermal resetting like some other enclosures. Just give it a minute to cool off after the transfer before you unplug it. Drive write speed was about 300-380 MB/s.

this is a rare findall in all, I was only able to find 2 short NVME enclosures on the internet that is 2242 and belowthis is because my wife's new Dell Inspiron 2-in-1 5000 series (11th gen intel) came with 2230 NVME and I've upgraded that to a much larger and quicker NVMEso with the 256GB from the dell unit, I wanted to take advantage of the small size and making something compact and fast out of ithere comes with ElecGearfrom the picture, you can see just how much smaller it is compared to the popular sabrent that is already compact and holds up to a 2280this is fast (no point in benchmarks for now since it is SSD dependent and running on USB-A 3.1)but since I bought this with the promise of compatibility with 2230, i expected as screw hole to secure italas it does NOT have a screw hole for 2230, only for 2242at least it comes with thermal pads that are pre-grid (semi-cut into little grids, easy to tear into small pieces) and kind of holds the drive in placenot sure how it would behave if I accidently drop the drive, whether the SSD will slide out of the slot or not...