What is your best suggestion for a Thunderbolt adapter for M.2 NVMe to laptop?

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Hello Friends

Two cousins need to solve the following situation:

Exists two laptops where each one:

  • Have M.2 NVMe with 500GB and 1TB respectively
  • Have Thunderbolt 3 and 4 respectively
  • Can not be opened to increase the SSD, they are new and is not wise lose the warranty

About storage and being not the case:

  • If is only need it more space to store then is enough buy a pendrive (USB Flash Drive)

But the situation and being the problem is:

  • Is need it more space to store and use data at realtime

For example for:

  • Rendering in architecture
  • Editions of video
  • VirtualBox .vdi files for each one with 500GB

Therefore because is not possible:

  • Upgrade the current “M.2 NVMe”
  • Buy a new “M.2 NVMe” and put it within the laptop itself as secondary storage

I thought the following:

  1. Buy a “M.2 NVMe” with a higher capacity (2TB, 4TB)
  2. Buy a Thunderbolt adapter for “M.2 NVMe” to Laptop

Yes, I know the difference about data transfer between

  • “M.2 NVMe” directly to the Laptop’s mobo
  • “M.2 NVMe” through the Thunderbolt adapter

Of course the latter should be slower than the former. How slow? I don’t know but because it is Thunderbolt it should be faster than USB Type A,B etc.

Therefore according with your own experience (members of your family, co-workers)

Question

  • What is your best suggestion(s) for a Thunderbolt adapter for M.2 NVMe to Laptop?

Manufacturer and model(s)

I am assuming should exist as:

  • Hybrid adapter to work as either 3 or 4
  • Specific adapter to work as 3
  • Specific adapter to work as 4

Of course, it involves the Generation and Lanes of the “M.2 NVMe” too

Thanks in advance

p.d: If you have a better suggestion, pls let me know

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Is this what you are looking for?

I cant give a recommendation, but if we can clarify what you need , others may be able to help.

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Huge thanks Neville

Yes, that kind of component! … :nerd_face:

Do you have feedback about the manufacturer in general?

Thanks again!

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Just in case … it seems the product shared really is not Thunderbolt, it because in the official page does not appear the Thunderbolt term:

But I found this one being Thunderbolt

Observe the difference between 10Gbps and 40Gbps

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I had to get one of these this past week. I went with the Sabrent M.2 enclosure because I already had a Sabrent M.2 disk with heat sink installed in my desktop. Unfortunately, the PSU went dead after 8 years and I needed to be able to boot into my Linux Mint system. So I put my drive in the tool free bay and saw the LM logo appear at boot in my laptop.

What I had forgotten was that I had initially installed LM with dual boot Kubuntu on my first M.2 drive, also in that desktop, and that when I bought the 2nd one, I just installed LM. Apparently, the Sabrent was not the one I had been running for the past 14 months.

I saw updates available and figured, of course, it’s been a week since it booted. But no, it had over a years worth updates. I couldn’t believe after that long that it updated without any issues. Rebooted to login screen and all is working.

Nonetheless, I was able to also insert the other M.2 drive and boot into it to access my current LM install.

Since I wasn’t thinking about using them for data backup, I went with the cheaper option at only 10 Gbps. But now that I dug out all my other SSDs, I went ahead and bought one of those enclosures so that I can get stuff of of them (if I even need it) and use them as drives for my CZ images, etc.

Pretty handy.

Sheila

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Huge thanks for your feedback Sheila. I really appreciate :slight_smile:

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