Storage Enclosures

SSD and hard-drive enclosures

Bring-your-own-drive enclosures compared on interface speed, cooling, compatibility, and build quality.

2 products

  • OWC Express 1M2 USB4 EnclosureOWC

    Enclosure only, 40Gb/s USB4, in a solid aluminium body that is the heat sink. That last part is the reason to care: an NVMe drive in a small sealed box throttles under sustained writes, and sustained writes are exactly what an agent fleet produces overnight. Not tested here yet.

  • Satechi USB4 Slim NVMe SSD EnclosureSatechi

    40Gbps USB4, takes a 2230 to 2280 drive up to 8TB, and is built to sit under a Mac mini. The reason to own one is arithmetic: Apple charges a large premium per storage tier and the internal drive cannot be changed later. Not tested here yet.