Enclosure works well, dissipates adequate heat. Great for extra space or for a backup.
Sabrent must have changed the case design as there are no notches in the TB3 port. Not all TB3/4 cables will work as the port shroud will prevent cables with larger plug shells from fitting in properly. I have tested a Nekteck Thunderbolt 3 Cable, 100W 40Gpbs Thunderbolt 3 Certified USB C Cable and it fits/works fine.
I was tasked with editing a 4K/24fps interview for a local client and needed a separate drive to hold the data on from the internal on my M1 MacBook Pro. I had an old 240GB MyDigitalSSD BPX (2280) M.2 NVMe SSD lying around, so I thought it would make the perfect video editing drive, but I needed an enclosure that could fully use the NVMe speed--something Thunderbolt 3. I still use a Sabrent-brand NVMe drive in another computer that has performed perfectly since I bought it, so thought highly of the manufacturer.This was no disappointment. The box feels solid and hard, so tough I have no problem just throwing this drive into my bag along with my other components. The assembly is almost insultingly easy, no tools needed to insert the drive and close it up, not even a screw to hold down the M.2 drive. The only confusing part of installation was the lack of any information on what the cooling pads were for--I had to look up on YouTube to realize the colorful blue stickers were to act as cooling pads for the drive, and the reason it came with two of them was because they were different thicknesses. I ended up using the thinner of the two since the thicker one didn't quite fit.Since then, it's been perfect. I was able to edit my 4K/24 interview in Premiere Pro on my M1 MacBook Pro without any drive-related performance issues. Any slowdowns that happened were due to CPU processing and not the drive's delivery of data. The box does get warm, but not too warm. It never gets too hot to touch, and it never fails even after hours of use. I've worked with the drive both plugged in direct and through my CalDigit TS3 Plus, and in both arrangements performance is identical. My only issue was that the price IS higher than other enclosures, but I guess you just have to pay more for the faster interface--unquestionably, it's worth it.
Lo compré para instalar el sistema operativo de mac (monterey) en mi iMac del 2017 sin tener que destriparlo, con todos los riesgos que eso conlleva. Llevé a cabo un tutorial de un inglés muy simpático que lo llevaba a cabo, el cual recomendaba esta carcasa y como es terminada en un aluminio muy elegante pues la compré, pensando que sería una velocidad de transferencia de 40 Gbps. Pues no, el máximo son 20 Gbps, la que usaba el del tutorial era una que si que llegaba a esas tasas de transferencia, pero que evidentemente era mas cara.Conclusión: La uso todos los dias con un módulo sabrent 2280 de 2 tb y ha dado un cambio radical en cuanto a la funcionalidad del iMac, las tasas de transferencia las podeis ver en la imagen adjunta. No son una bestialidad, pero si bastante mejores que el "fusion drive" que traían los iMac de 2017.
Thunderbolt model works exactly as advertised, gets a little hot though