Turn your PCIe M.2 NVMe or SATA AHCI M.2 SSD into a highly portable, USB (Universal Serial Bus)-based external storage solution. This enclosure features USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.1 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) with UASP support & PCIe 3.0 delivering real read/write data transfer speeds up to 1GB per second. Working with both PCIe & SATA based drives, this enclosure ensures compatibility with many M.2 drives, supporting both M-Key (PCIe) & B+M-Key (SATA) drives sized 2230/2242/2260/2280. The enclosure is also forward compatible with PCIe 4.0 based drives, at reduced PCIe 3.0 performance. USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.1 Gen 2 10 Gbps (also known as USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.2 Gen 2x 1) is backward compatible with USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.1 Gen 1 5 Gbps (also known as USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0), USB (Universal Serial Bus) 2.0, & USB (Universal Serial Bus) 1.1.