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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been doing a bit of cleaning around the house I grew up in. The amount of tech unearthed was astounding, with old PC builds, cell phones I’d never even look at now from decades ago, along with HDD and even some SSD storage.
For the most part, a lot of it was pretty useless and just needed to be recycled. But those HDDs and SSDs are vital, not only because they carry a ton of information that I backed up at the time, but also because storage prices are at a premium right now.
Digging through everything, I was able to recover a few external and internal HDDs, but more importantly, some M.2 and SATA SSDs as well. Now, at first, I didn’t really think too much about all of this. But then I wanted to make sure that all of this hardware was protected when it was on the move.
While SSD storage cases are available, I was able to pick up these Ugreen M.2 enclosures for just $14 each. It’s a great way to protect the hardware, while also making it useful if I need some new external storage drives. Again, these aren’t the fastest SSDs since they’re from around a decade ago, but it’s going to work for my uses.
Furthermore, you get support for a wide range of drives, with M.2 2230, 2242, 2260, and 2280. Ugreen even throws in a USB-C to USB-C cable to ensure the best transmission speeds possible.
For my needs, this thing is perfect. And if you want to make some portable SSDs out of your own with hardware that you might have lying around, it’s going to be a great option.
UGreen’s M.2 NVMe SATA drive enclosure is a versatile way to turn an internal drive into an external one. It supports a wide array of NVMe SSDs and can now be had for just $14.