DOCKCASE M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure 10Gbps USB-C with Real-Time Display, Prevent Data Loss During Unexpected Power Cuts, SSD Health Alert, Supports 2230-2280, Compatible with MacBook & Windows Black

I like gadgets, I like blingy, techy gadgets. I needed an external NVME M.2 storage dock and I liked to look of this one. It was the only one on Amazon with a nice blingy screen that gives you information about what it's doing, how much storage you have, the state of your drive, input/output and a10 second shut down protection. It's has a weighty and well made aluminium housing. It is not sleek but has a more chunky and industrial style to it, and has a nice clear area around the info screen so you can see the pcb. The process of opening up the housing and fitting the drive was super easy and was recognised as soon as it was plugged into the PC. Performance is great for what I needed it for (using a Samsung 970 pro) The only slight criticism is that the lead, although excellent quality, is just a little on the short side. But tbh it really doesn't matter to me too much. It is expensive, I suppose, but I feel that my information on the drive is safer than in a plasticky housing. I'm sure you can buy a housing of similar transferring performance for a fraction of the cost of this one. I don't think you would get the same quality.and you wouldn't get the blingy screen. It's one of my many L'Oreal gadgets 😁

The Dockcase Explorer Smart SSD Enclosure packs few useful features that make the extra cost justifiable. With an aluminium alloy outer shell and gorilla glass - its pretty tough too! Installing the SSD is nice and simple with the removal of a single screw - with spare screws and the driver included in the package. The enclosure has a small display that shows the health status, model and size of your SSD, current live read/write transfer speeds or even the SSD temperature and voltage in graphical form! There's a lot more detailed SMART information available too by cycling through the menu screens using the single button on the device. Compatible with SSD drives up to 4TB in capacity, I've tested with a 1TB Samsung 980 Pro and achieved average read/write speeds of around 920MB/s using the included USB-C to USB-C cable, which are speeds that I would expect for a 10Gb/s interface. In summary then, as for the overall design, the Dockcase enclosure is a flashy but manageable device. It stands out with its glass casing, accompanying screen, futuristic detailing, good performance, and it’s small size, all while being convenient enough to fit in your pocket. On the other hand however, there are plenty of other portable M.2 SSD enclosures available, which are not only good performers, but much more affordable, although saying that, they don’t offer the same protection as the DockCase enclosure. They’re also not as sleek. So if protecting your data is an extra priority, it might be worth it to spend a little bit more on the DockCase Explorer Edition smart SSD enclosure. It certainly gets my vote!

I have this set up with a 4TB KC3000 and tested with an M1 Macbook Pro. It is very fast - easily hitting around 1GB/s write on a mixed set of files and the device reports a 10Gbps connection using the supplied cable. It's a short cable (15cm?) which is fine for travel but you might want a longer one. I've not extensively tested read performance, but it seems at least as fast as other external NVMe drive enclosures I own. The display is useful to see what's going on, though I've not found a way to turn it off, which might be nice if you're using it at night. At least it's much better than the ridiculous RGB lights on Asus's Strix Arion. There is no manual that I could find which is a bit odd, because everything is controlled with one button. Double click rotates the display, long click cycles through settings. Be warned if you end up on the firmware upgrade screen by mistake, the disk will still work but you won't be able to use the display until you reboot the drive. The heatsinking looks OK, the fit with a 4TB drive feels quite loose unlike other drives which have a more snug feeling when being clamped down, so it's not clear how good the contact is with the memory chips. I did make the mistake of peeling a corner of the top layer off even though there's a note on the drive saying not to (it's a very glossy thermal pad). I would consider getting another pad to shim underneath the drive for dual sided PCBs, and possibly checking back in a week to see if the pad is making contact. Drive temperature at around 20C ambient with the driving sitting on a desk got up to around 55-60C while running a backup. The top surface is essentially an insulator (it's a big sheet of plastic with an air gap), so be careful how you orient it in use. It's best to either put it display down, or sideways so the heat can escape. It's a nice size. Not enormous, and probably a little thicker than it needs to be due to the screen. The exposed circuitry is a nice look and the front case seems to be plexiglass or acrylic rather than glass, so I wouldn't worry too much about shatter. It's not particularly heavy, so unless you drop it on a hard metal surface from a height I doubt it would crack. You don't get the free rubber bumper from Amazon though, which is a shame. Another potential downside is that it's likely not waterproof. Power protection works if you unplug the drive, but I've yet to use it in anger. I've had issues with other drives in the past and I hope that the supercap can be used to buffer the power from the hub if it struggles during a bursty operation. If not, you can also use a second USB-C cable to provide auxiliary power which is something I've not seen in any other drives. NVMe drives are really hungry and this is great to have. It's probably the most expensive enclosure you can get, but as SSD prices are plummeting it's not a bad investment and the features are good. The power delivery features are worth it alone for me and it's a good tool to diagnose disks.

This new product from Dock Case could well be one of the best answers if not the best answer to the new Asus Rog Ally’s storage problem. Yes, that’s right, if you are one of the unlucky people that had the SD card issue but don’t want to open your Ally to fit a larger internal drive, this case will allow you to fit a SSD up to 4 GB to store your games, run your game at super fast speeds, thanks to being USBC data transfer rates are lightning fast, fast enough to keep up with higher end SSD read write speeds. Speeds can reach up to 10GBps!! Supports NVMe and SATA drives. The other cool thing with this is that you get a display which tells you read write speeds and drive health in real time, this allows you to back up your drive and not loose you data if the SSD drive starts getting bad. Not only does it have this screen it also has up to 10S power UPS to protect the drive and data from corruption etc if connection is lost or power lost while writing to the disk. There is a second USBC socket for power, unfortunately this doesn’t allow charging of the device that the Dock is connected to but it does run the drive keeping the Rog Ally, IPad or any other portable devices internal power soley for the device that the Doc Case is connected to, instead of drawing power from the devices internal battery. I for one love this little Dock Case, so get on it, for those of you thinking it’s to complicated to fit a SSD into the Dock Case, it’s easy, very easy, the tool is provided with the Dock Case and takes less than a couple minutes to fit, connect to your pc, initialise in Disk Management (Windows tool provided by Microsoft) and Boomb, format and start using. Video coming soon on YouTube, Vortex RCUK.

The jury is out on this one. It works fine for a while but then does stop working or slows down to a crawl. Wondered if it was the NVme but have tried a few. Not looking good

The unit is recognised by Windows 11 for about 5 seconds then disappears, re-appears and this goes on in a loop. This is even when power is supplied by a separate powered USB hub. Worried this may damage my NVMe SSD. (WD Black SN 850X 2Tb SSD.) File transfer speed was abysmal at one point when it seemed relatively stable, but ~40MB/s ?!!. I have contacted customer support and will change my review depending on the result. (Maybe a firmware update may cure it....) It does look a premium product, if it worked. Contacted their support and got a prompt reply with detailed instructions to do a firmware update. Drive now working well, so hats off to their support.

Pros: - Fits all NVMe drives - The loss of power protection is wicked. - Love the little info Screen too! - Easy to dissasemble and insert SSD - Has built in FAN - works really well actually - SMall portable and lighweight - Feels quite well built and durable. - The speed is really good on the drive too. CONS - Does not work with SATA SSD's - Does not come with an SSD itself

Good quality, as described by the seller, good value for money, very happy with the item :))

Contenuto della confezione: Dockcase explorer edition rosa Istruzioni per l’uso Cavetto Usb 3.2 da 10Gbps Type-C Vite aggiuntiva e cacciavite Dockcase Explorer Edition Rosa si presenta con un design molto affascinante e premium sia al tatto sia alla vista, questo é dato dai tipi di materiali con cui e fatto, alluminio per la scocca, vetro temperato per la parte frontale che permette di vedere tutti i componenti del dispositivo. Viene fornito con il suo cavo Usb Type-C che riesce ad arrivare fino a 60W, il libretto delle istruzioni, una vite e un cacciavite che permette l’apertura della scocca posteriore cosí da poter accedere all’ingresso per l’ssd. Molto bene il fatto che si possano collegare vari tipi di ssd. La velocitá di scrittura e lettura é davvero super perché riesce ad arrivare a 10Gbps. Per testarla ho provato a trasferire sull’ssd un file dal peso di 7Gb e ci ha messo solo qualche secondo, davvero fantastico. Lo schermo é davvero bello e si vede anche molto bene. Nello schermo vengono indicati: la vita dell’ssd, la velocitá di lettura e scrittura, il tipo di ssd e la sua capacitá, la temperatura dell’ssd. Tenendo premuto il pulsante a lato si puó accedere ad altri quattro menú che riguardano l’ssd e il dispositivo in sé. Molto utile la funzione di potrezione nel caso in cui la corrente salti o se per sbaglio scollegassimo il dispositivo dal computer, grazie a ció avremo dieci secondi per ricollegarlo cosí da non perdere nessun dato. É un dispositivo davvero ben fatto e curato nei minimi dettagli. Lo consiglio a coloro che vogliono usare il loro ssd alla sua massima velocitá cosí da utilizzaro come ssd portatile. Trovate maggiori informazioni sul mio sito giovannirecensioni.wordpress.com

Très satisfait de mon produit. Compliqué pour obtenir la dernière version du firmware il faut insister auprès du service client avec differentes photos de l'écran avec les informations mais tres bon boitier. Bonne finition. Je recommande

Ottimo prodotto. Non solo lato funzioni ma anche lato design. Bello da vedere sulla scrivania e da possedere. Lo schermo a colori ci dà moltissime informazioni utili per i più nerd! Unico “problema” le temperature. Se lo utilizziamo per molto tempo, potrebbe surriscaldarsi.

Agrande vitesse, écran impecable pour avoir des infos , solide en metal. je recommande et envoie rapide

Appena arrivato gli ho montato su un Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD (MZ-V8P1T0BW) da 1 tb. Esteticamente è molto accattivante (ma questo è un gusto personale). A impreziosirlo c'è quel bel display colorato che fornisce molte informazioni utili sullo stato di salute dell'ssd contenuto. Costruzione solida e ben fatta...non è sicuramente un prodotto cheap e lo si sente al tatto. Ho provato a trasferire un file di 6 gb da hard disk meccanico tramite porta usb tipo A ed è andato velocissimo. Non sono un manico delle misurazioni ma su windows ho rilevato 190mb/s continui su file unico. Penso che la velocità aumenti se collegato via type-c dato che in dotazione c'è il cavo a doppia testa che all'occorrenza permette di usare il box appunto sia con usb-A che con usb-C. Per il momento sono soddisfatto anche dal servizio clienti che si è dimostrato pronto e celere nel rispondere alle mie domande pre e post vendita. Complimenti!