It's a Newer Technology Voyager S3 SATA HDD dock. You put a bare drive in it like a cartridge, it has an edge connector in the dock itself. USB3.0 compatible.
Nice. I should figure out how to bust out my old hard drives from their cases and get one of those. Hard drives, even solid state, are just junky pieces of shit that are purposefully designed to break.
None of the hard drives I've ever bought have failed to date. (Western Digital)
Just be aware that some pre-packed hard drives can have the USB controller built into the disk itself, and/or rely on the controller to provide encryption or other services. Western Digital is bad about this.
I've had a bunch of those in different brands. My old ones do not support m.2 though
I had an older one as well, I think it was a Hornetek or something. Supported 0-2TB, the Newer Tech unit supports >2TB drives.
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