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A write-protect switch on the case, and both leads in the box

ICY BOX IB-1807MT-C31, NVMe enclosure up to 2 TB, USB 3.2 Gen 2, write-protect switch, combined cable

The only enclosure in this hub with a write-protect switch on the outside, and one of two that names the lead in the box — a combined cable covering both socket types.

ICY BOX aluminium NVMe SSD enclosure with a write-protect switch and a USB-C socket

ICY BOX IB-1807MT-C31, NVMe enclosure up to 2 TB, USB 3.2 Gen 2, write-protect switch, combined cable

The only enclosure in this hub with a write-protect switch on the outside, and one of two that names the lead in the box — a combined cable covering both socket types.

Supported drive protocols
NVMe SSDs — stated in the title and in the first bullet. M.2 SATA drives are neither named as supported nor named as excluded anywhere on the page
Supported drive lengths
Common sizes up to 2280 — stated in the first bullet, which gives the capacity ceiling as 2 TB. The individual lengths below 2280 are not listed
Interface standard
USB 3.2 Gen 2 — stated in the title and in the third bullet
Stated link rate
Up to 10 Gbit/s — stated in the third bullet, which gives copying large volumes of data as the case for it. No condition on the cable or the host port is published
Connector type
Type-C — the fourth bullet describes the supplied combined cable as Type-C to Type-C and Type-C to Type-A, which makes the socket on the enclosure a Type-C one
Case material
Aluminium — stated in the title. No wall thickness and no finish is published
Thermal arrangement
Not published on the listing — no thermal pad, no heatsink and no fin pattern is named in any of the five bullets. The aluminium in the title is the only thermal statement on the page, and it is a material rather than an arrangement
Tool-free assembly
Tool-free — the second bullet says the drive is installed without tools and without small screws, which it credits with saving the nerves
Cables supplied
A combined cable, Type-C to Type-C and Type-C to Type-A — stated in the fourth bullet, which says the right connection is always immediately to hand. It is one of two enclosures on this shelf to name its lead
Amazon reference
B0B4DQNVCX (same reference on 5 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
4250078172925
  • A hardware write-protect switch, which nothing else in this hub offers
  • Both leads in one combined cable, so no adapter is needed for an older machine
  • Two terabytes, the lowest ceiling on this shelf against eight elsewhere

Best for: A drive that has to be read from a machine without any risk of being written to — a disc image, an archive, evidence of any kind.

≈ £20 / 22 €
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Specifications

Supported drive protocols
NVMe SSDs — stated in the title and in the first bullet. M.2 SATA drives are neither named as supported nor named as excluded anywhere on the page
Supported drive lengths
Common sizes up to 2280 — stated in the first bullet, which gives the capacity ceiling as 2 TB. The individual lengths below 2280 are not listed
Interface standard
USB 3.2 Gen 2 — stated in the title and in the third bullet
Stated link rate
Up to 10 Gbit/s — stated in the third bullet, which gives copying large volumes of data as the case for it. No condition on the cable or the host port is published
Connector type
Type-C — the fourth bullet describes the supplied combined cable as Type-C to Type-C and Type-C to Type-A, which makes the socket on the enclosure a Type-C one
Case material
Aluminium — stated in the title. No wall thickness and no finish is published
Thermal arrangement
Not published on the listing — no thermal pad, no heatsink and no fin pattern is named in any of the five bullets. The aluminium in the title is the only thermal statement on the page, and it is a material rather than an arrangement
Tool-free assembly
Tool-free — the second bullet says the drive is installed without tools and without small screws, which it credits with saving the nerves
Cables supplied
A combined cable, Type-C to Type-C and Type-C to Type-A — stated in the fourth bullet, which says the right connection is always immediately to hand. It is one of two enclosures on this shelf to name its lead
Amazon reference
B0B4DQNVCX (same reference on 5 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
4250078172925

On the listing

An external M.2 NVMe enclosure in aluminium with a USB 3.2 Gen 2 interface, compatible with NVMe SSDs up to 2 TB in common sizes up to 2280; a tool-free installation with no small screws; data transfer rates of up to 10 Gbit/s; a supplied combined cable from USB Type-C to Type-C and Type-C to Type-A; and an integrated write protection that keeps data from unintentional loss and can be switched on and off.

The switch on the case

Nineteen listings sit in this lot, across three shelves. One of them can be made read-only with a switch.

The fifth bullet describes an integrated write protection, activated and deactivated by a switch on the enclosure.

It sounds like a small thing and it changes what the object is for. A drive that cannot be written to is a drive that survives being plugged into a machine that decides to index it, reorganise it, or quietly write a hidden folder to it. It is what you want when the contents are an archive, a disc image, a set of files somebody else needs to read, or anything where the copy on the drive is the copy that matters.

It is also protection in the other direction. Plugging a drive into a computer you do not know is a risk taken every time, and a hardware switch is the one form of protection that no software on the far side can talk its way past.

One cable, two ends

The fourth bullet names the lead, which is more than four of the six enclosures on this shelf do: a combined cable, Type-C to Type-C and Type-C to Type-A.

That covers both kinds of computer in one object, which is the practical version of the adapter another listing here supplies. One lead rather than a lead and a small part to lose.

What it cannot do is change the rate of an old socket. Ten gigabits is what the enclosure offers; a Type-A port on an older machine will produce what that port produces, and the chain runs at the speed of its slowest link.

Two terabytes

Here is the limit, and it is the sharpest one on this shelf.

The first bullet gives the ceiling as 2 TB. Two enclosures here state 8 TB and two state 4 TB. Drives above 2 TB are ordinary now, and anybody moving a large one into an external case should read this line before anything else on the page.

The lengths are handled loosely too: common sizes up to 2280, without the individual designations that four other listings on this shelf print out.

The aluminium, and what is not said about it

The title says aluminium. No bullet says thermal pad, heatsink or fin.

Aluminium is a material and a thermal arrangement is a path — from the controller, across whatever fills the gap, into the metal, out to the air. Without the middle part named, the case is a good conductor that may or may not be touching the thing it is meant to cool.

For a drive used in short bursts this rarely shows. For a long sustained copy it is the difference between the rate holding and the drive slowing itself down.

Before ordering

Check the drive is 2 TB or under, because that is the ceiling and it is the lowest here. Ask whether a thermal pad is fitted. And if the write-protect switch is the reason you are buying, that is a good reason — nothing else in this hub has one.

Availability

Priced from 22 € to 31 € across the German, French and Spanish Amazon stores the day this page was checked.

It is stocked on the British Amazon store as well, in that country’s own currency. The range above leaves those out: it counts euro stores and no others.

The Italian Amazon price runs past 1.6× the cheapest store. A gap that size normally marks a reshipper and not a seller in the country, so that listing stays out of the range above.

The American Amazon store returned nothing at all, so the buy button there opens a search in that country rather than a page that would not load.

Every figure in this section is what Keepa held on the day this page was last updated. Stock and prices move without warning.

Prices quoted in this text were read on 10 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.

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  • SABRENT NVMe SSD enclosure with an aluminium heatsink and a USB Type-C socket

    SABRENT NVMe-only enclosure, 2230 to 2280 up to 8 TB, USB 3.2 Gen 2, aluminium heatsink, Type-A adapter

    The enclosure that puts its own exclusion in the title — NVMe only, no SATA — and ships an adapter so that an older machine with no Type-C socket is not left out.

    Supported drive protocols
    M.2 PCIe NVMe only — stated in the title as no SATA, and again in the first bullet, which says M.2 SATA SSDs are not supported and asks the buyer to check the interface before use
    Supported drive lengths
    2230, 2242, 2260 and 2280 — all four listed in the first bullet, up to 8 TB. It is one of two enclosures on this shelf to state an 8 TB ceiling
    Interface standard
    USB 3.2 Gen 2 — stated in the title and in the second bullet
    Stated link rate
    10 Gbps — stated in the title and in the second bullet as a high data transfer rate over USB-C. No condition on the cable or the host port is published
    Connector type
    Type-C, with a Type-A adapter included for older systems — both stated in the title and in the second bullet
    Case material
    An aluminium heatsink combined with an ABS body — stated in the title and in the fourth bullet, which gives better heat dissipation, reliability and long service life as the reasons
    Thermal arrangement
    An aluminium heatsink — named in the title and in the fourth bullet. No thermal pad is named, which is the part that carries heat from the controller into the metal
    Tool-free assembly
    Tool-free — the third bullet describes installing or replacing the drive without screws, and calls it suited to travel and to portable upgrades
    Cables supplied
    A Type-A adapter is included, stated in the title and in the second bullet. No data cable is named anywhere on the listing, and the fifth bullet says no drivers and no external power supply are needed
    Amazon reference
    B0F933F1G8 (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
    EAN
    0840025274563
    • Puts the SATA exclusion in the title rather than in a bullet
    • A Type-A adapter in the box, so an older machine is not a second purchase
    • A heatsink is named and no thermal pad, which is what connects a drive to it

    Best for: An NVMe drive that has to work on two machines of different ages, one of them with no Type-C socket at all.

    ≈ £12 / 20 €
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  • DIGITUS compact M.2 SATA SSD enclosure with a USB Type-C socket

    DIGITUS M.2 SATA B-key enclosure, 2230 to 2280, USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C, 101 × 32 × 10 mm

    The cheapest enclosure on this shelf and the only one that will not read an NVMe drive at all: a B-key M.2 SATA housing whose chipset is named and whose dimensions are printed to the millimetre.

    Supported drive protocols
    M.2 SATA in the B-key format only — stated in the title and in the second bullet. No NVMe drive will work in it, and the key notch of an M.2 SATA drive and an NVMe drive look much the same, which is why the title says B-Key and why this line says it first
    Supported drive lengths
    2230, 2242, 2260 and 2280 — all four listed in the second bullet, with a capacity of up to 8 TB given in the third
    Interface standard
    USB 3.1 Gen2 — stated in the title and in the first bullet, which adds backward compatibility with USB 3.0, 2.0 and 1.1
    Stated link rate
    6 Gbps — the first bullet says the USB 3.1 Gen2 interface supports transfer rates of up to 6 Gbps. Six gigabits per second is the rate of the SATA III standard rather than of a USB 3.1 Gen2 port, and the listing prints the two figures against each other without reconciling them
    Connector type
    Type-C — stated in the title. The socket on the enclosure is what is described; the cable in the box is not published on the listing
    Case material
    Not published on the listing — no metal and no plastic is named. The fourth bullet gives the dimensions as 101 × 32 × 10 mm and calls the enclosure a suitable companion for travel, the office or university
    Thermal arrangement
    Not published on the listing — no thermal pad, no heatsink and no fin pattern is named. The third bullet credits the JMS576B chipset with reliable and efficient performance and says nothing about heat
    Tool-free assembly
    Tool-free — the second bullet says the M.2 module is inserted without tools, which it gives as the reason the installation is easier
    Cables supplied
    Not published on the listing — no lead is named in any bullet. The fourth says the power comes over USB with no separate mains adapter, which describes the supply rather than the cable
    Amazon reference
    B0DC6S54ZR (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
    EAN
    4016032497554
    • The only enclosure here for M.2 SATA drives, which the other five will not read at all
    • Names its chipset, the JMS576B, which two of the six listings here never do
    • A 6 Gbps figure quoted against a USB 3.1 Gen2 interface, and the two are not the same thing

    Best for: An M.2 SATA drive pulled out of an old laptop, which none of the other enclosures on this shelf will read.

    ≈ 8 €
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  • Xiaobi aluminium M.2 NVMe SSD enclosure with a tool-free latch and a USB-C socket

    xiaobi M.2 NVMe enclosure, USB 3.2 Gen 2, 10 Gbps stated, UASP and TRIM, aluminium with a pad

    The only enclosure in this hub that prints the condition attached to its own headline figure: ten gigabits, and a note saying which cable is needed to see them.

    Supported drive protocols
    NVMe PCIe M-key and B+M key only — stated in the second bullet, which adds in a marked note that the enclosure is not compatible with SATA (NGFF) or mSATA SSDs and is not a card reader
    Supported drive lengths
    2230, 2242, 2260 and 2280 — all four named in the second bullet, up to 4 TB, with Samsung 970 EVO and PRO and Crucial P1 and P2 given as examples
    Interface standard
    USB 3.2 Gen 2 — stated in the title and in the first bullet, with backward compatibility to USB 3.1, 3.0 and 2.0
    Stated link rate
    10 Gbps, given as up to about 1000 MB/s in the first bullet, followed by a marked note that a USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 data cable is required for 10 G speeds. It is the only listing on this shelf that attaches a written condition to its own rate figure
    Connector type
    Type-C — stated in the title as a USB-C interface, and named again in the note about the cable required
    Case material
    Aluminium — stated in the fourth bullet, which describes a high-grade aluminium housing dissipating heat in combination with the thermal pad
    Thermal arrangement
    A silicone thermal pad working with the aluminium case — stated in the fourth bullet, which calls the arrangement active cooling and gives sustained load as the case it is for
    Tool-free assembly
    Tool-free — the third bullet describes a latch mechanism into which the drive clicks, with a marked tip that both OPEN buttons must be pressed at the same time to open the case
    Cables supplied
    Not published on the listing — no lead is listed in any bullet. The first bullet states that a USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 data cable is required for the full rate without saying whether one is in the box
    Amazon reference
    B0FCRZ5Z5W (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
    EAN
    0635393178632
    • States the cable its own 10 Gbps figure depends on, which no other listing here does
    • Says in a marked note that SATA and mSATA drives will not work, rather than leaving it implied
    • The cable is stated as a requirement and never listed as an inclusion

    Best for: An NVMe drive being carried between machines whose USB-C ports are known to be 3.2 Gen 2, with a suitable cable already to hand.

    ≈ $15 / £12 / 14 €
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Others worth having spare

  • DDMALL flat white 10 m Cat 8 patch cable with shielded snagless RJ45 plugs

    DDMALL 10 m flat Cat 8 cord, 2000 MHz stated, 50-micron gold plating

    The only Cat 8 cord here and the only one to put a thickness against its gold plating, sold flat for the same reason the cheap cords on this shelf are — and quoting a bandwidth figure that nothing in a home network asks for.

    Category
    Cat 8 — stated in the title and the first bullet, with a bandwidth of up to 2000 MHz and a data transfer figure of up to 40 Gbps. It is the only cord on this shelf above Cat 7
    Conductor material
    100 per cent bare pure copper — stated in the third bullet as a highly conductive core, and again in the fourth as four pairs of pure thick copper wires
    Conductor construction
    Not published on the listing — the fourth bullet counts four pairs of copper wires and describes them as thick, which is a section rather than a construction. Neither solid nor stranded appears on the page
    Shielding code
    STP — stated in the fourth bullet, with shielded RJ45 plugs at both ends and crosstalk, noise and interference named as what the screen is there for. No letter code separates the overall screen from the per-pair one
    Length
    10 m — stated in the title, in a flat ribbon profile the second bullet describes as sitting flatter on a floor or a desk
    Sheath material
    Not published on the listing — the second bullet calls the cord flexible, thin and durable, and names no material for the jacket
    Boot type
    Snagless — stated in the fourth bullet, which names hook-free RJ45 plugs and credits them with durability and a secure connection
    Connector plating
    50-micron gold plating — stated in the third bullet on the RJ45 plugs. It is the only plating thickness published on this shelf
    Amazon reference
    B08G4K6KHC (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
    EAN
    0677222570125
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    • Names its conductor as pure copper twice, in two different bullets
    • The 40 Gbps and 2000 MHz figures describe the class, not anything a household link produces

    Best for: A run that has to lie flat and stay flat, bought by someone who wants copper named and does not mind paying for a category the ports will never use.

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  • HB-DIGITAL orange 10 m Cat 7 installation cable with an unterminated end

    HB-DIGITAL 10 m Cat 7 installation cable, AWG23/1 solid, S/FTP, LSZH, Eca

    Not a patch cord at all but a length of installation cable, and the only listing on this shelf that publishes a conductor gauge — AWG23/1, a solid core, in a halogen-reduced sheath with a fire class printed beside it.

    Category
    Cat 7 — stated in the title and the first bullet, with an operating frequency of up to 600 MHz and support for 10 Gbit/s Ethernet. PoE compatibility is named separately, to IEEE 802.3af and 802.3at
    Conductor material
    A copper mix — stated in the first bullet, which names the conductors as a copper compound rather than as pure copper. It is the only listing on this shelf to describe the metal as a mixture, and no proportion is given
    Conductor construction
    Solid — stated as AWG23/1 in the first bullet, where the figure after the stroke is the conductor count per core. It is the only conductor construction published on this shelf
    Shielding code
    S/FTP — stated in the first bullet as an overall screen with foil around each pair
    Length
    10 m — stated in the title. The cable is sold as a simplex run rather than as a made-up cord
    Sheath material
    LSZH — stated in the fourth bullet as a halogen-reduced outer sheath with reduced smoke and gas emission in a fire, and given a construction-products class of Eca
    Boot type
    Not published on the listing — there are no plugs on this cable and therefore no boots. The fifth bullet names what the ends are meant to meet instead: punch-down terminals, keystone modules, patch panels and network outlets
    Connector plating
    Not published on the listing — nothing is fitted to either end. Whatever plating the link ends up with comes from the modules or plugs an installer terminates it into
    Amazon reference
    B0G5YNNQKT (same reference on 5 Amazon marketplaces)
    EAN
    4063328066871
    • The only listing on this shelf that publishes a conductor gauge, and it publishes the construction with it
    • Names a sheath material and a fire class, which nothing else here does
    • It is not a patch cord: nothing is fitted to either end, and the buyer supplies the termination

    Best for: A fixed run being pulled through a wall or a trunking and terminated into keystone modules or a panel at both ends.

    ≈ 13 €
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  • KabelDirekt black 10 m Cat 7 patch cable with RJ45 plugs and kink protection

    KabelDirekt 10 m Cat 7 cord, SF/FTP triple screened, 36-month warranty

    The only cord on this shelf described as triple screened, with the shielding code spelled out and a three-year warranty behind it — and four of the eight lines on this page left for the buyer to ask about.

    Category
    Cat 7 — stated in the title and in three bullets, with a data rate of up to 10 Gigabit per second and 10GBASE-T named. The maker offers it for cable modems, DSL modems and fibre connections
    Conductor material
    Not published on the listing — no metal is named anywhere in the title or the five bullets. What appears instead is a category, a shielding code and a warranty term
    Conductor construction
    Not published on the listing — the third bullet names the cable as twisted pair of category 7 and stops there. Neither solid nor stranded appears
    Shielding code
    SF/FTP, triple screened — stated in the third bullet, which credits the arrangement with immunity to interference and noise. It is the only cord on this shelf described as carrying three screening layers
    Length
    10 m — stated in the title
    Sheath material
    Not published on the listing — the cord is given a colour, black, and no jacket material
    Boot type
    Kink protection — stated in the third bullet as a reliable kink guard on the Ethernet cable. The type is not named, and no latch guard or snagless design is described
    Connector plating
    Not published on the listing — the plugs appear as RJ45 in the title and are never described further
    Amazon reference
    B0843WLW6S (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
    EAN
    4260414846465
    • The only triple-screened construction on this shelf, and the code is printed rather than implied
    • A warranty term is published as a number of months, which four cords here never do
    • No conductor metal and no construction, which are the two lines that separate cords at this price

    Best for: A run through a space with real interference, bought by someone who values the screening arrangement and the warranty over the missing material lines.

    ≈ £17 / 16 €
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