The PCIe NVMe SSD drive FlexBay has the physical data and power connector to allow a SATA or SAS drive to be physically installed. However, the FlexBay is only configured to communicate with PCIe NVMe SSDs. SATA or SAS drives installed in this FlexBay will not work due to an incompatibility with the drive controller. This change of mind return policy is in addition to, and does not affect your rights under the Australian Consumer Law including any rights you may have in respect of faulty items. I work for a very large company and when an Exec wants that data, all the valid reasons in the world won't help you. So I needed the ability to shove the drive into an enclosure and access it.

M.2 SATA SSD Docking And Cloning Icy Box External USB3.0, M.2 SATA SSD Docking And Cloning

PLUGABLE (AZ #B07N48N5GR) *** - A very well made product. Smaller and dramatically easier to add and remove the drive (tool-less) and came with cables and multiple thermal pads. I couldn't get it to show any of the mounting / unmounting issues the ICY BOX had (phew! my drive is fine) and under certain scenarios it would max out the 10Gbps bus. I wanted to like this one so badly, Dell Precision Workstation 5820 / 7820 / 7920 PCIe NVMe FlexBay Slots Will Not Detect SATA / SAS Drives https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln313880/dell-precision-workstation-5820-7820-7920-pcie-nvme-flexbay-slots-will-not-detect-sata-sas-drives?lang=en I actually did a bunch cause it I was a bit bored at work. I did a Sandisk Extreme 64GB, Sandisk Ultra Flare 32GB, Samsung EVO 850 1TB 2.5", Intel SSD Pro 2500 256GB SATA too. Next is the fastest USB thumb drive I own. These predate me having the USB External M2 adapters. So I used to use them for salvage. Most of the time now they run various bootable things. But the read/write speeds are still impressive for a true USB Thumb drive. Sandisk Extreme 64GB (CZ80)Cheap PNY 8GB commodity drive. Thing was so damned slow I changed it to 512GB and only ran 1 pass. Thats not a mistake, the random write tests are slow low as to not even register. RND4KQ32T16 is something like .0003MB/s.

Enclosure (M.2) - USB M.2 SATA PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive

When you install the kit 750-ADBF necessary to upgrade to the M.2 NVMe SSDs, you will wind up with two (2) front flex Bay positions that will support a M.2 module (Kit 575-BBSH). What I found was that you now have two (2) flex bay positions that will not recognize SATA or SAS Hard drives. (I had three SATA hard drives installed and one empty flex bay position). Now I can only use two of the flex bay positions for the SATA hard drives. If you install a SATA HDD module in one of these front flex bays configured for M.2 module, you get a flashing amber LED on the flex bay "door" and the SATA drive is not shown in Computer Management.UGREEN (this one) **** - The construction was fine, but by far the worst of the 3. It is slippery and feels like thin plastic. It flexes when you squeeze it, but does feel rigid enough to not snap in half. The others I felt safe dropping or even driving a car over. Definitely not the sentiment with this guy. Tool-less like the PLUGABLE, but clunkier to get in and out of. It also doesn't come with any thermal pads and of the 3 enclosures, it needs them the most. Without pads my drive was hitting 83c after just a few minutes of heavy load. With a 1mm pad on each side of the drive I could barely get it to hit 60c.