Sabrent,
I think the EC-SSD2 nvme dual cloner is an overall pretty good product that you have on your hands. I do, however, have some suggestions for future revisions or variations of this product:
Strengths:
+ Very thick, robust aluminum casing with round rubber feet & PCB - makes you feel like you're getting your money's worth.
+ Toolless design, rubber pins make it pretty painless to swap NVME drives.
+ dual connector type cables is a nice touch.
+ looks like good cooling and venting will help avoid throttling and help lifespan of NVME drives.
+ Cloning is easy to use and just works.
Areas for Improvement:
- Fan always runs at full blast, even after cloning, even with 0 workload. It should have a chip to turn off the fan after X minutes of inactivity, and the fan speed should be variable, depending on how the NVME drive temperatures or workloads. This could be all chip regulated or allow the end user to manually control/override. If there was already a firmware update possible on the existing product to enable this, that would be terrific.
- Keep the design largely as it is currently, as it is a pretty great design, but change the implementation of the removable top panel and how it secures to the chassis. Currently, there are two metal balls that potrude from the sides of the cover. Currently, they are to be pressed down against the chassis sidewalls until the balls on the sides of the cover fall into the pits/pockets on the chassis sidewalls, securing the cover in place.
It's a fairly effective implementation currently, but due to wear and tear over time, the scraping of the balls on the sides of the cover against the sidewalls of the chassis will result in scratches and grooves in those areas where the balls make contact with the sidewalls, which aesthetically leads to marks on the pretty chassis as well as potentially may cause the cover to not be totally tight on the chassis over time.
A sliding top cover would be worse since it would scrape against the grooves that it would have to slide against on the chassis. Instead, maybe some sort of button that secures and releases the cover, or other implementation that would avoid physically grinding/scratching of the balls against the chassis, would improve the product overall.
One other note: I am not sure if the fan is easily replacable with a similar or same fan that can be easily sourced by end user, in case the original ever goes bad.
In closing, perhaps Sabrent will take the above into consideration for future releases/products. It would be great to make the same design and quality, with the above improvement suggestions, and also support USB4 and TB4 specs.
