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.

If you have NVMe m.2 drives these will not work for you. With SATA m.2, they are perfect. Reliable, good value, easy to use, accommodate whatever SATA m.2 drive you've got, and let you turn them into a 2.5in SATA drive.

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 ordered this unit to help me replace/upgrade the m.2 SSD drive in my 2015 Razer Blade. I had been wanting to swap out the internal 256 GB for a newer 1 TB Samsung EVO 860 drive without having to reinstall Windows or start from scratch on my machine, and this USB adapter was just what I needed.Construction-wise, it is a little bit "plasticy" (not a surprise to me since I own a multitude of various Sabrent USB enclosures) but it performed beautifully in practice. I was able to insert the 1 TB upgrade drive into the enclosure, hook it into the USB 3.0 port on my Blade, clone the entire 256 GB and system partitions to the new 1 TB drive using Acronis True Image, and then open up the bottom panel of my laptop and swap in the new upgraded drive. Once that was done, I booted up, and everything worked just like before, only with a lot of additional storage.I did not test read/write speeds or anything like that, since the USB connection would potentially bottleneck things and that will vary on your m.2 SSD of choice anyway. I was looking for stability and maintaining the integrity of my system data during the cloning process more than speed for my specific use case.Everything worked as advertised, and as a result, I now have a much more luxurious amount of storage in my laptop. The plastic construction and potential longevity is a little bit concerning if you intend on using this a lot or will be constantly swapping m.2 SSD's into it, but for my use case, it did exactly what I needed it to do. Overall, I am extremely satisfied with my purchase. Thanks, Sabrent!

Upgraded my motherboard and it only supports nvme M.2 SSDs . Had to use this to make my M.2 Sata SSD work. Works perfect.

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.

Helped me upgrade old laptops to SSD from mechanical HDD

This looks like it would work great, but it is not compatible with the Lexar NM790 drive I want to put in it. The drive will not physically fit because the direction the M.2 connector is keyed in has the heat sink on the drive oriented towards the adapter's board, and it cannot fit that way. The adapter's description did not mention that it was incompatible with drives that had a heat sink.