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M.2 -> USB adapter?

Elixer

Lifer
I am trying to think of why you would want such a thing?
M.2 is still faster than USB, and much more expensive so... ???

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http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=612
 
What's to understand?

If you have an M.2 SATA card sitting around, you can use it in this enclosure for external storage.
 
My kid has one. We tried to fix a chromebook with a new m2 drive, if that didn't work we have a kingwin (i think that's it) little enclosure. now we have a 64GB USB3.0 M.2 drive for about $40. It was more about fixing the chromebook, and a fallback to use the hardware.
 
M.2 SSDs don't have to use NVMe, and they don't have to use PCIe. M.2 SATA SSDs are only a little bit more expensive than 2.5" SATA SSDs, and USB 3.1 gen 2 is faster than SATA.
 
SATA may still be faster in terms of IOPS but sequentials should be the same seeing as it's a 10Gbps USB-connection.

I actually own an enclosure that looks pretty similar to that one.
Because I like having a large USB-drive that performs pretty well no matter of what data I'm writing/reading to/from it.
 
It's useful if you have a messed up system with M.2 drive, you need to copy off some data or erase some data, and you don't have other PCs with a spare M.2 slot.

My new office PC from March suddenly became unbootable. Before sending it in for service, I needed to erase things like source code and code signing keys in case they send back a new machine. I've read stories of factory refurbs being send out with customer data on the hard drive and we couldn't allow that to happen.

I didn't find anything like that at the time, so I needed to use a PCI-E slot adapter instead, which was much less convenient.
 
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