ORICO 40Gbps M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure with Built-in Cooling Fan, Upgraded Transparent External Hard Drive Enclosure, Support 2230 2242 2260 2280(only M Key), Compatible with USB4/3.2/3.1/3.0/2.0-BL

worst product ever, fan not working. burnt smell coming.

Speed is lower than advertised

The speed is very good, and heat dissipation is acceptable if air flow is not obstructed in any way. My main complaint, and the reason I stopped using it daily, is excessive power consumption when it is plugged in but not being accessed. I can't be sure, but when connected to my MacBook Pro M4Pro, the enclosure fan ran continuously and the SSD *may* have been drawing power even when not having been used for an extended period. That is, it did not seem to have an effective sleep or low power mode.

I bought it to test my PCIe FPGA, yes it works with thunderbolt port.

Item came in nicely packaged. You slide the lid off to place your SSD card in it. I inserted a 4TB SSD that I used on my Mac Mini M4. I also bought a doc that has an encasement for a SSD card that plugs into the Mac Mini, which can save spaces. The doc stopped working and reading my card, so I thought I'd try this encasement that was simple and with no bells and whistles so to speak. It does have an internal fan, which I thought was good since it reads/writes at 40Gbps, and I know they can get pretty warm when you load files onto it. This encasement worked wonderfully and then it stopped reading again and ejecting. Found out that the Apple Mac Mini's don't have enough power to power the encasement/SSD card, so I had to connect it to a hub and now it's great. I'm thinking my doc was probably still good as well but the mac mini couldn't power it along with other external drives I had connected to it. I really like the look of the encasement. It still gets hot when you load large files like video, but it does it super fast. You will need to place it somewhere cool and out in the open. Do not lay it on anything metal as the metal will not allow it to cool.

I bought this for one of my Crucial P3 4TB PCIe Gen3 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSDs. I had some huge files that I needed to backup to yet another storage device. What used to take 40-50 minutes transferred in like 8 minutes. My main laptop is a HP OMEN - 16.1" QHD Gaming Laptop - 12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900H - 32GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop with 2 of the Crucial 4TB SSDs. It also worked on my Lenovo - Yoga 7i 2-in-1 14" Touch Screen Laptop - Intel Evo Platform Core i5. I'm happy with this enclosure.

I had repeated overheating with this item when hooked to brand new mac mini m4. Using Samsung 990 NVME drive evo the temperature got to 160 F all the time. This was a consistent issue when hooked to thunderbolt4 and using both manufacturer cable and replacement thunderbolt 5 cable. The plastic case and ill placed fan are an oven. Putting an external fan on it dropped it to 125. My replacement Acasis thunderbolt 4 case does not go over 104 without a supplemental extenal fan. Poor thermal design characteristics. Bad choice for high speed Thunderbolt use. Overheating caused power supply overloading and repeated umount errors from Mac mini. The Orico unit is unsuitable for use as a thunderbolt 4 external item. It works ok on thunderbolt 3 or 10Gbps Usb.