Sokiwi 10Gbps USB 3.2 NVMe M.2 SSD Enclosure Duplicator

Update: Vendor reached out and sent a full refund. I was not expecting this. I am leaving my original review in case it will help others and I updated the rating from 3 stars to 5 stars. This vendor stands behind their product. Just realize this product is for NvME drives only, not SATA SSDs, and also M.2 drives with heat sinks will not fit. I was hoping to clone my M.2 B&M keyed drive but it did not recognize either SSD. Perhaps they are SATA drives but the keying thru me off because my drives had the B&M key depicted here as compatible. The only newer NvMe drive I had did not fit due to the heat sink so I could not really test this unit with a compatible drive. Also the documentation is not clear on what the lights mean. When I tried to clone the drives I had, one drive light went from red to blue and then back to red. The other stayed on red. When I initiated a clone, the progress lights all blinked simultaneously blue while the drive lights stayed solid red. I assume that means it was not working because they never changed. A little documentation on what to expect from the lights would have been beneficial. I am thinking that a blue drive light means it recognizes the drive and a red light means it doesn't, but it would be nice to say that in the docs. Also, the drives got somewhat warm but the fan never came on. I also don't understand why they provided rubber grommets instead of screws. Awkward to install the drives using them. I am not returning the unit because I may have a future use with true NvMe drives but some small design changes would make this product much better.

As others have wrote, this unit works exactly as needed. I'm another one of the 40 year IT guys here and can vouch this clone device works exactly as described and does it FAST. Cloned a 256GB NVMe to new 1TB NVME, took less than 5 minutes. I was amazed. Afterwards use one of the many free 'partition wizard' programs to rearrange (or delete) partitions so you can make the newly found disk space contiguous with existing space. Ie: The existing C drive partition must be adjacent to the new unallocated free space in order to Extend the drive's useable space. I deleted the two Dell/Windows recovery partitions using EaseUS Partition Assistant Free Edition. The two recovery partitions allow for a system restore from the manufacturer's Windows files. For me, if the drive is fouled so badly that I need to reinstall or repair Windows I'll simply reinstall Windows 10/11 from a USB image created using free Windows 10/11 Installation Media utility. If you're an amateur the above steps may be overwhelming or frustrating, seek out YouTube for assistance. Only caveat of the clone device might be the cheap feel and durability. It feels like cheapy $15 USB speaker thing. This is one of the few devices in my toolkit that I'm willing to overlook the build quality for functionality and time savings achieved.

It isn't a normal thing to open one's PC up willingly and remove it's "soul", let alone drop it's "soul" into an unknown box and hope all goes well. Today I am pleased to say, it did go well. I had a 250GB M.2 SSD in my Dell that was getting close to full, and my PC has had start up errors claiming there's no OS media (yikes!) So I had to act fast. I got a 1TB M.2 SSD, and this cool cost-effective "off-line" (No PC needed!) drive duplicator in hopes that I can make my puny 250GB drive grow to a 1TB drive. Well, this product made the entire copy in 5 minutes 30 seconds (yes, I timed it). I then, hands shaking, put the new drive into my PC, reconnected it up, and presto-change-o! It actually came on, back to my log-in screen! I was so pleased! However, it wasn't so simple to expand my old C drive into the new space, there were a bunch of "recovery partitions" preventing me from extending my drive into that new space. I had to use the CMD prompt and the diskpart program environment, delete those annoying recovery partitions, and then, when they were all gone and the "unallocated space" was right next to my C: drive I was able to fully expand it into the new space with no difficulty! My drive is 1TB in size now! Yaay! However, I did immediately go back to Windows Recovery and created a new recovery point, just to be safe. Good luck! Any questions about the diskpart function can easily be answered by going on-line and looking up this procedure. It's not that hard. U CAN DO EET MANG!

Missing the pegs to hold down the SSDs but customer service took care if it. Fyi, Offline cloning for my unit, once started the left and right lights flashed red and blue the entire time. The 25% flashed until it was solid, which i assume means it was 25% complete and then the next one flashed and so on. Once complete the lights all went solid blue. When going from 250 -> 1 tb i had to install a free partition program to move the recovery partition to the end of the volume and then i could extend the partition and gain access to all the storage

(Review of SOKIWI NVMe M.2 Duplicator Dual-Bay Offline Clone Tool-Free, 10Gbps NVMe Docking Station with Cooling Fan,NVMe M.2 SSD Enclosure for NVMe PCIe Size 2230/2242/2260/2280(up to 8TB)) I purchased this to clone the original 250GB SDD in my Dell laptop - full to the brim mostly with Win11 bloatware - to a new 1TB drive. The process, start-to-finish took about 90 minutes, including using it as an external enclosure for the new drive while I used Gparted on a Linux box to rearrange partitions so I could make full use of the new space as a contiguous drive. The offline cloning took perhaps 10 minutes. If I have to scratch for nits, the labelling of indicators, switches, etc. could be more readable, and the rubber NVME retainers are a bit fiddly to insert. While the included documentation is best described as "spartan," it was sufficient to my needs: While the procedure it describes for using Windows to extend a cloned partition to make all space on a larger target drive available didn't work for me under Win10 -- I didn't waste a lot of time on it, just used Linux. I would love to say that I'd buy it again, but I've already bought it and don't expect to need an extra. (If I lost this one, yes I'd buy another!)