AOKO NVMe to USB 3.2(10Gbps) SSD Reader Docking Station – Portable M.2 SSD to USB Adapter External NVMe SSD Enclosure for M.2 PCIe NVMe and M.2 SATA SSD, Compatible with 2.5'' SATA Dirve

I’ve been looking for something like this for years that supports both SATA and M.2 and so happy this worked for me for both types of drives. My older adapters only worked for one or the other.I recently used this to come one drive to another, cloning an older SATA NVMe drive to a M.2 and it was so easy and painless. I had two of these used on the same computer to transfer between one directly to the other using Clonezilla in KDE Neon Linux. No special drivers were needed in either Linux or Windows either :)If I had to gripe about one thing, and it’s really very minor, it would be that these only included one USB cable which is a USB type C male to two USB type A male adapters, one for data and one for power. The secondary for power only seems to be needed when working with older SATA drives and likely only the 3.5” drives that require additional power beyond SATA, unlike 2.5” which typically can run off SATA alone.But that’s really not even a problem because this cable does exactly what’s needed. I just would have preferred another USB type C to USB type C like many others offer but it’s not a big deal because you typically have a few on hand.

Works excellent for reading SSD

I was able to use this device to transfer data from an old NVME to a new NVME after doing a replacement. I have used this adapter successfully for both M.2 SSD and NVME drives. Although keep in mind that it shows up as a mass storage device and NVME tools won't work when connected to the adapter. One thing I would have liked to do would be format namespaces for securely erasing data. In fact you don't even see the namespaces so I assume it's only exposing namespace 1? This limitation might not be possible to overcome unless you have a USB-4/Thunderbolt adapter and it gets exposed as a PCI-e device.I had this connected to a USB-C 3.1 port, which offers 10Gbps (which is the link speed I was seeing on the port in Linux), but the transferred speed was around 300 MB/s, occasionally rising to 500MB/s. When the drive was previously directly attached being a PCI-e 4.0 NVME drive it was getting up to 4 GB/s.

This converter works great and was an affordable price. It has a sata and m.2 ssd reader, yet only one works at a time. I would have been nice for both to work simultaneously. I was not able to clone one sdd to another with this reader but how often are people using it for that.

It's compact for travel. The USB cable has two connections in case you need extra power. Mine worked on USB 3.0 with a single plug. It recognized all disks very quickly. It seems to work reliably in my testing. It's nice to have something that has a wide range of support. I tested it on 13 different drives and had zero issues. I would highly recommend this model.

It works sometimes. It doesn’t work sometimes. It’s fragile. It’s unreliable. It’s not something you should use in serious fole transfers.

I had a few M.2s I wanted to clean and this tool worked out great. Very simple and compact.

This all-in-one adapter is very easy to use and saves space in my service tool box.