Icy Dock ICYNano MB861U31-1M2B, USB-C 3.1

Schnell installiert und hohe Performance! Von Icy Dock sehen wir uns heute auf OCinside.de ein externes USB 3.2 Gen 2 10 GBit/s Gehäuse für PCIe SSDs an. Das neue Icy Dock MB861U31-1M2B kann eine M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD im Format von 2230 bis 22110 aufnehmen und mit bis zu 10Gb/s über den USB 3.2 Gen 2 an USB Typ-C oder USB Typ-A anschließen. Ganz gleich, ob am Notebook, Tablet, Smartphone oder am PC, das neue ICYNano Gehäuse kann vielseitig eingesetzt werden. Wie hoch die Performance wirklich ist, zeigen wir im folgenden Test.

In my review of the ROG Strix Arion I mentioned that I had no option other than mostly Silverstone and the Arion. Back in those times, I didn’t realize I would need to actually switch in between M.2 SSDs and it was quite an inconvenience to actually swap out M.2 SSDs but the more pressing issue was one day, I would possibly need to to use a lengthy M.2 22110. While its not a popular size, companies like Synology and a few others still offer M.2 22110 length SSDs. Of course, my use case is quite niche but if you do encounter these use cases, the solution are quite rare for M.2 enclosures that actually support M.2 22110. Thankfully, ICY DOCK reached out to me to share their newly relased ICYNano enclosure.

The Icy Dock ICYNano MB861U31-1M2B USB 3.2 Gen2 enclosure reaches the USB port limit during testing with the Crucial P1 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD! Icy Dock has once again managed to give the user a case that can be populated very quickly and achieves high performance. Only the price could be a bit lower and the size of the external case could be a bit smaller, but this would also reduce the aluminum surface, which is used to cool the PCIe SSD. In this respect, Icy Dock has done everything right with the external MB861U31-1M2B case and it thus earns our first buy recommendation in the new year. The Icy Dock ICYNano MB861U31-1M2B enclosure receives the ocinside.de Purchase Tip Award!

Well, there is not much to be said of the data transfer speed of the ICY DOCK ICYNano MB861U31-1M2B other than that it is on par with what we would expect with the embedded JMicron controller. That is good as the IC pairs quite well with NVMe drives and the USB-C 10 Gbps interface. On top of that, assembly is completely tool-less from opening the enclosure to installing an NVMe drive securely.