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- #115 in Enclosures
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danny
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2025
Worked great, simple to use. Used it to clone SSD that I was upgrading to large capacity.
danny
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2025
Worked great, simple to use. Used it to clone SSD that I was upgrading to large capacity.
martin b.
Reviewed in Canada on February 7, 2025
Some people complaint about silicone strip, it's depend on the ssd brand who haven't the chips at the same place.Work just fine, a bit of heat but normalNice look tooI have a couple of orico enclosure and all work wellRecommend
martin b.
Reviewed in Canada on February 7, 2025
Some people complaint about silicone strip, it's depend on the ssd brand who haven't the chips at the same place.Work just fine, a bit of heat but normalNice look tooI have a couple of orico enclosure and all work wellRecommend
Julian
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2025
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.
Julian
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2025
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.
TomFromMn
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2025
I have used the Orico SSD enclosure to clone two different SSD's so far. This enclosure is a budget friendly device to use when cloning. The SSD's were cloned using the SSD manufacturer's free cloning software. The process was easy, not much more than 'plug and play. I would highly recommend the Orico enclosure.
TomFromMn
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2025
I have used the Orico SSD enclosure to clone two different SSD's so far. This enclosure is a budget friendly device to use when cloning. The SSD's were cloned using the SSD manufacturer's free cloning software. The process was easy, not much more than 'plug and play. I would highly recommend the Orico enclosure.
Vitalii
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2025
Great NVMe SSD Enclosure! Working good and fast, it has good passive cooling and nice design!
Daniel Alex
Reviewed in Mexico on January 9, 2025
Un dispositivo maravilloso. Si necesitas un ssd externo o clonar, este es maravilloso. Cuándo tenga un ssd para hacer pruebas de velocidad actualizaré, pero por el momento tiene calidad sin igual, incluye todo lo necesario (¡Hasta un pad térmico!). La mejor compra que pude hacer, simplemente fascinante.
Richard
Reviewed in Canada on January 9, 2025
These work very well.
Vitalii
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2025
Great NVMe SSD Enclosure! Working good and fast, it has good passive cooling and nice design!
Daniel Alex
Reviewed in Mexico on January 9, 2025
Un dispositivo maravilloso. Si necesitas un ssd externo o clonar, este es maravilloso. Cuándo tenga un ssd para hacer pruebas de velocidad actualizaré, pero por el momento tiene calidad sin igual, incluye todo lo necesario (¡Hasta un pad térmico!). La mejor compra que pude hacer, simplemente fascinante.
Richard
Reviewed in Canada on January 9, 2025
These work very well.
M. Crosby
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2024
Great value for the money. I purchased one last year as I had 2 nvm harddrives one was supposed to be internal and one external. Fun fact make sure your power supply has enough power of your machine won't like it too well. Lol I eventually turned that pci slot one into a now external. It works well on usb c and well as USB a. Installation was easy. Mine never heats up.
M. Crosby
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2024
Great value for the money. I purchased one last year as I had 2 nvm harddrives one was supposed to be internal and one external. Fun fact make sure your power supply has enough power of your machine won't like it too well. Lol I eventually turned that pci slot one into a now external. It works well on usb c and well as USB a. Installation was easy. Mine never heats up.
Mad Mensch
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2024
Normally I do a ton of research on something before buying but with this Orico TCM2-U4 enclosure I was more curious than anything. I wanted a new enclosure for my 4TB Samsung 990 PRO SSD so I bought the Orico and a Zike drive enclosure which I haven’t received yet. Using the BlackMagic speed test app the Orico TCM2-U4 is consistently achieving over 3000 Mbps for read/write. I’ve also transferred large RAW photo and video files from my Mac Studio to the drive and it’ll transfer 40GB of files in seconds. For the price ($79 at time of review) the Orico is a steal. With that said, I do still plan on testing the Zike Drive when it arrives because there are a few things I don’t like about the Orico.As to the downsides, the fan is pretty loud which can be annoying. I have a gaming PC with 10 fans so normally I don’t mind fan noise but the Orico fan has a higher pitched fan noise due to the small size so it’s more noticeable. The LED on the Orico is also annoyingly bright especially with the plastic case. Lastly, the other consideration if you plan to purchase the Orico enclosure - for some reason my Orico came with 2 heatsinks, one screwed to the plastic case and another heatsink that is a completely different shape with no obvious way to mount it anywhere. There were no references to this second heat sink in the user manual, the box, or online so I assumed it was a mistake. HOWEVER, when installing my SSD in the Orico I noticed there was a huge gap between the thermal pad and the heat sink on the outer shell (which makes no sense) so I tried sandwiching the second heat sink in-between the outer heat sink and the thermal pad and it worked perfectly (I had to use a 1.5mm thermal pad from Thermal Grizzly). Now when I run the drive the outer heatsink gets hot to the touch with tells me that the thermal sandwich is working perfectly.In summary, for the price I would say the Orico was totally worth the additional effort however I’m still scratching my head on the second heatsink and whether that was intended or if I got lucky. Without the second heatsink it would render the outer heatsink useless since there would be no direct transference of heat from the SSD. Good luck!
Mad Mensch
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2024
Normally I do a ton of research on something before buying but with this Orico TCM2-U4 enclosure I was more curious than anything. I wanted a new enclosure for my 4TB Samsung 990 PRO SSD so I bought the Orico and a Zike drive enclosure which I haven’t received yet. Using the BlackMagic speed test app the Orico TCM2-U4 is consistently achieving over 3000 Mbps for read/write. I’ve also transferred large RAW photo and video files from my Mac Studio to the drive and it’ll transfer 40GB of files in seconds. For the price ($79 at time of review) the Orico is a steal. With that said, I do still plan on testing the Zike Drive when it arrives because there are a few things I don’t like about the Orico.As to the downsides, the fan is pretty loud which can be annoying. I have a gaming PC with 10 fans so normally I don’t mind fan noise but the Orico fan has a higher pitched fan noise due to the small size so it’s more noticeable. The LED on the Orico is also annoyingly bright especially with the plastic case. Lastly, the other consideration if you plan to purchase the Orico enclosure - for some reason my Orico came with 2 heatsinks, one screwed to the plastic case and another heatsink that is a completely different shape with no obvious way to mount it anywhere. There were no references to this second heat sink in the user manual, the box, or online so I assumed it was a mistake. HOWEVER, when installing my SSD in the Orico I noticed there was a huge gap between the thermal pad and the heat sink on the outer shell (which makes no sense) so I tried sandwiching the second heat sink in-between the outer heat sink and the thermal pad and it worked perfectly (I had to use a 1.5mm thermal pad from Thermal Grizzly). Now when I run the drive the outer heatsink gets hot to the touch with tells me that the thermal sandwich is working perfectly.In summary, for the price I would say the Orico was totally worth the additional effort however I’m still scratching my head on the second heatsink and whether that was intended or if I got lucky. Without the second heatsink it would render the outer heatsink useless since there would be no direct transference of heat from the SSD. Good luck!
Pacovr
Reviewed in Mexico on June 8, 2024
El silicon que trae es muy pequeño y no alcanza. Tuve que conseguir por mi cuenta porque el case se calentaba y se desconectaba.
Pacovr
Reviewed in Mexico on June 8, 2024
El silicon que trae es muy pequeño y no alcanza. Tuve que conseguir por mi cuenta porque el case se calentaba y se desconectaba.
KW
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2024
Easy enough to install though getting the drive to sit properly on the little plastic shelves while reinstalling it was fiddly and meant taking it apart to realign it a few times.The biggest drawback is the status LED on the main board. HOLY HECK it's like they took the bulb out of the bat signal. The light is blue, faces up at the very corner of the housing and strobes like nuts whenever the drive is being accessed. I initially had the intention of having this on my desk next to me to appreciate how good it looks with the clear housing but yikes it's unbearable. I had to hide it behind a potplant and even then the wall behind it looks like a techno rave. Might look to put a dab of opaque hot glue onto the diode to soften the light a bit.It was nice that Orico includes in the kit everything needed to install the drive, including a USB-C to USB-C cable. It would be nice if these cable were softer though, as they are very chunky and stiff.Performance has been great and the heat sink does a good job, but I think it would be a good idea to get the version with the built-in fan because the heat sink can get extreeeemely hot when the drive is doing a lot of read/writes - too hot touch really, so not ideal for a portable drive if you plan on putting this back in your bag or pocket when you're done unless you can give it 5 minutes to cool down beforehand.
KW
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2024
Easy enough to install though getting the drive to sit properly on the little plastic shelves while reinstalling it was fiddly and meant taking it apart to realign it a few times.The biggest drawback is the status LED on the main board. HOLY HECK it's like they took the bulb out of the bat signal. The light is blue, faces up at the very corner of the housing and strobes like nuts whenever the drive is being accessed. I initially had the intention of having this on my desk next to me to appreciate how good it looks with the clear housing but yikes it's unbearable. I had to hide it behind a potplant and even then the wall behind it looks like a techno rave. Might look to put a dab of opaque hot glue onto the diode to soften the light a bit.It was nice that Orico includes in the kit everything needed to install the drive, including a USB-C to USB-C cable. It would be nice if these cable were softer though, as they are very chunky and stiff.Performance has been great and the heat sink does a good job, but I think it would be a good idea to get the version with the built-in fan because the heat sink can get extreeeemely hot when the drive is doing a lot of read/writes - too hot touch really, so not ideal for a portable drive if you plan on putting this back in your bag or pocket when you're done unless you can give it 5 minutes to cool down beforehand.
Robert G. Norris
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2024
This enclosure works very well and holds my NVMe drive without a problem. Was easy to connect to the computer and runs fast. I don't know the exact speeds but it is fast enough for my needs and seems to faster than my other external drives. Holds all my files and there is still much pace to use. These are mostly photos I am using with Lightroom and I use these on my desktop and my laptop and it just like using the internal drive, there is no lag at all when loading the catalog upon startup.
Robert G. Norris
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2024
This enclosure works very well and holds my NVMe drive without a problem. Was easy to connect to the computer and runs fast. I don't know the exact speeds but it is fast enough for my needs and seems to faster than my other external drives. Holds all my files and there is still much pace to use. These are mostly photos I am using with Lightroom and I use these on my desktop and my laptop and it just like using the internal drive, there is no lag at all when loading the catalog upon startup.
michael griffin
Reviewed in Canada on April 25, 2024
thermal pads and heat draw the heat from the SSD.... very important for the drives longevity... data transfer rates are fantastic
michael griffin
Reviewed in Canada on April 25, 2024
thermal pads and heat draw the heat from the SSD.... very important for the drives longevity... data transfer rates are fantastic
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