External storage drives have become a part of my life nowadays, so much so that I always have a few in my laptop bag. But lately I’ve moved away from pre-built external SSDs and instead buy enclosures and M.2 drives separately. This lets me have the combination of performance, capacity, and cost that suits my needs.
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As such, I’ve been testing a lot of enclosures with different strengths. Some put portability at the top of the list, while others, such as the Ugreen 40Gbps USB4 M.2 NVMe SSD enclosure 