ORICO M.2 NVMe Cloner Dual-Bay NVMe Docking Station USB C to NVMe SSD Enclosure Aluminum M.2 Duplicator Offline Clone for PCIe M-Key SSDs max to 8TB Tool Free-M2P2

Works as it's supposed to - solid construction has good heat dissipation. It does get extremely hot though - if you have a tiny fan or something to blow over it no problems, if not just let it sit for a minute before touching it after you're done.Very simple to use, windows and mac both picked up the drives without any issues or drivers being installed.

Doesn't seem to work with Crucial P.2 NVMe (M key) drives. Turns on lights on each drive turn on, but pressing clone button does nothing. Have tried a couple of them (including the other brands of this devices that are available on Amazon, and none seem to work with the Crucial drives).DOES work with all other M key (PCIe x4) drives I've tried, including Mushkin Helix, Western Digital Blue, Samsung 970 Evo, and some random off-brand NVMe drives I had laying around.Gets so hot it is an actual fire hazard (touching it for more than 1.0 second will burn your fingers), and the little rubber feet don't hold it far enough away from the surface it rests on to solve that. This isn't a problem unique to Orico, as all of the other NVMe cloners from Amazon I've tried run just about as hot. The case is made out of solid aluminum, and could definitely benefit from the exterior surfaces being ridged as a heatsink; it's definitely solid and heavy enough that it would remain rigid even if there were heatsink fins cut into it on all sides.As far as the retaining clips go, I actually like the rubber clips on this device *much* better than the other NVMe cloners. You aren't suppose to force the drive *down* into the clip though; you're definitely supposed to slide it in underneath the clip (straight into the pin socket). I could definitely see the rubbery retaining clip breakning if you forced a drive *down* into it, instead. This is way better than the other drives that have annoying rubber end pieces you have to move around and yank hard and wiggle to get to hold onto the drives. The clip on this is much easier, and doesn't need to move or be jostled, as long as you just slide the drive underneath it as you're sliding it into position.

I got this to clone a 980 2TB NVME, and it failed several times in a row, and was so hot i burned my hands. I stuck this on my window AC, and turned the AC on to cool this unit, and darn this is a fast duplicator. It worked great after i cooled it down. I re-ran the clone 5 times more, just to see if it would error out again. and it worked every time. So for cloning large drives, fast, this unit has to be cooled down.

I've been in the information technology field for many years, and I can unequivocally say that this is the most hazardous product I have ever encountered. The initial setup was deceptively simple, lulling me into a false sense of security. Although the cloning process was somewhat cumbersome, I left the device unattended for a short period. Upon my return, I was shocked to find that the unit had reached an alarmingly high temperature. The scalding heat it emitted was not just uncomfortable, it was downright dangerous.I firmly believe that had I left this device plugged in overnight, it would have posed a significant fire risk. A review of other customer experiences confirmed my worst fears: this is not an isolated incident. The fact that this item continues to be sold is, at best, negligent and, at worst, criminally irresponsible.I cannot emphasize enough the safety risks associated with this product. Potential buyers should exercise extreme caution.

M.2. ssd units will clone EXACT model types of inserted units, but in some cases will not copy between two different brands of the same size ssd (in our case both 1Tb class 40 ssd). No problems cloning same model to same model, but the heat dissipation was noticeable and we pointed a large fan at the unit to keep temperatures somewhat moderated. There is no heat sink that comes with the cloner, so this is up to the user to keep equipment from overheating.

Unit works as advertised, shipped promptly, super easy to use, great value! MY clone operation (stand-alone mode, no PC needed) took only 10 minutes total, so 500 GB copy was quite fast! (Naturally the WIndows recovery partition needed juggling via GParted (i used Rescuezilla LInux Live USB, which had GParted on desktop) to juggle the move the recovery partition to the end of drive, then merged the remaining 1.5 TB of now unallocated space with the original 463 GB partition, however this was entirely expected as a result of cloning from 500 GB disk to 2 TB disk.)

I just don't feel safe using this. Like many have said, it gets hot. What's odd is that it gets incredibly hot even WITHOUT any SSDs (120F without SSDs, 150F with - see FLIR photos). NVMe M.2 SSDs run hot, but when the base temp is 120F when the device is simply plugged in (not even plugged in to the computer - just plugged into the wall), it sets up a bad situation (early death of SSDs, fire hazard, etc.). I could add a heatsink (as some have) and fans (as others have), but it seems to be starting from too hot a state, and I worry about what that says of the underlying power design. I like the form factor and the idea, but it just runs too hot.I also tried standalone cloning a 1TB Gen3 NVMe PCIe SSD to a 1TB Gen4 NVMe PCIe SSD and it didn't work (sat for a couple hours without any progress). When plugged into the computer it could see both drives, so the USB connection works, but when disconnected and cloning as a standalone device, I didn't have any success. Because of the heat, I only tried a couple times, so your mileage may vary.

In any use, drive and the enclosure get really warm. Does the job great but wouldn't use for a long time.

I wanted to increase the capacity of my laptop's M2 SSD from 500GB to 1TB as it was getting full.I followed the simple device instructions and in literally 5 minutes my 1TB drive was ready.Once inserted into laptop, switched on - it booted as normal. Brilliant.However ..... File manager only identified the available space the same as the old drive - it's a clone afterall!For a PC: Open Disk Manager and identify your C Drive (mine was disk 1. This is the drive you need to work on - nothing else. Unfortunately Disk manager cannot do everything we want to do at present - that is to extend C Drive OS to the full 1TB, so...In order to extend the C drive into the remaining free space you need to delete a couple of partitions on the drive using the command prompt. This is the basic workflow:Open the Command Prompt by clicking the Start button (Windows Logo) at the bottom left of your screen.Then type “cmd” (there might not be an input field, just start typing and one will automagically appear) and right mouse click on the Command Prompt app. From the drop down select “Run as administrator“Type “diskpart” and press EnterType “list disk” and press Enter. A list of available physical drives will appear. Disk manager allows you to identify your C drive disk.Type “select disk #” where # is the number of the disk you want. The first disk is number 0. Press Enter.Type “list partition” and press Enter. A list of available partitions on that selected disk will appear. Study the list and identify the partitions not needed so the main OS partition can be Extended later.Type “select partition #” where # is the number of the recovery partition you wish to delete. Press Enter.Again, before proceeding you should ensure that you have a full working system backup on an external drive so you can do a restore if you need to.Type “delete partition override” and press Enter. That will erase the partition.Erase any other partitions not needed (Keep the EFI and OS partitions or nothing will work.Once these partitions are deleted, Disk Manager can be used to extend C drive OS to include the now, unallocated partitions. Once done C drive can now access almost a full TB of drive.Well that's how I did it.These' sort of instructions would have been useful to be included in the Cloning Tools instructions.If all else fails, you can always start the cloning process again and start over.

Liked: Well presented, good instructions, Australian/NZ pattern plug connection, worked wellDisliked: Connectors are quite short

I used the one-button cloning feature to clone a 2TB drive, which it did successfully insanely fast. I thought it was faulty because it said it finished within 30 mins and it got burning hot to the touch, as did the SSDs plugged into it.However, once left to cool I was relieved to discover that my cloned drive worked perfectly.I would strongly recommend keeping an eye on this as it copies to make sure you unplug it as soon as it finishes so that it doesn't stay this hot for this long (not kidding, insanely hot, beware!)

Works well and get the transfer done but it does get hot so need to run with a fan or something to cool ot down.

Reading comments about drives getting very hot I took the step of adding NVME drive heat sinks on top and also a 3mm thermal pad between drives and cloner body (could have got away with 2mm so will try that next time). Holding the whole lot together with elastic band. Clone was done in minutes and drives only got warm.