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I have recently purchased a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x laptop and I am hoping it can replace both my old Thinkpad laptop and Dell XPS desktop, both of which are 13 years old.
So far, so good, so fast, so light, and excellent battery life.

I would like to remove the Samsung 850 SSD from the desktop, and use it as an external drive for the new laptop.

The new laptop has USB-C® Full-Function (40Gbps, PD 3.1, DP 1.4) ports, and only those.

Can anyone recommend a suitable, fast SSD enclosure to house the old SSD, please?
 
Although I use SSDs both for data storage (2Tb units at the momment) and for OS backups, I have found them fast enough to connect through USB, without putting them in cases. I use drop in HDD replacement SSDs and a simple interface adapter in many instancies...

SSD to USB Adapter FZ82 P1010709.jpg

The Benfei branded adapter shown above has a clever way of providing both USB standard and USB-C plugs, with the standard providing a USB-C socket and being on a sliding hinge, to allow the USB-C plug to be used when required. It cost about £10 from Amazon....

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Obviously, this won't work if the SSD you have lacks the standard HDD interface.
 
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This page says the Samsung 850 can only do about 540mb/s

semiconductor.samsung.com

Data Storage, SSD Cards & Internal Hard Drives | Samsung UK

Browse our range of data storage and memory products, including SSD Cards, and internal and external hard drives. Free Delivery at Samsung UK.
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Getting a 40gb/s enclosure would be a waste of money and useless.

This ugreen one will exceed it.

 
I've had a few Ugreen adapters including SSD enclosure, and I was thinking of that brand before Raymond posted.
 
ancient_mariner said:
I've had a few Ugreen adapters including SSD enclosure, and I was thinking of that brand before Raymond posted.
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Ugreen makes decent, mid-level to slightly above mid stuff. Good value but also decent quality. Usually the brand I go to before diving down to more niche brands. They are a bit like Anker in a lot of ways.

Sabrient is also good, so is OWC but they are more expensive. There are other chinese brands like Orico too which I have an enclosure of.
 
I have bought a few Ugreen enclosures and they have been fine apart from one for a NVMe SSD which kept disappearing from view on my Mac.
 
Raymond Lin said:
This page says the Samsung 850 can only do about 540mb/s

semiconductor.samsung.com

Data Storage, SSD Cards & Internal Hard Drives | Samsung UK

Browse our range of data storage and memory products, including SSD Cards, and internal and external hard drives. Free Delivery at Samsung UK.
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Getting a 40gb/s enclosure would be a waste of money and useless.

This ugreen one will exceed it.

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That is super helpful, thank you. I'd actually ordered that very item (got a used one from Amazon for £12)!
 
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