This discounted Ugreen SSD enclosure is one of the best purchases you can make before Black Friday

One of my most useful tech purchases in recent times has a tiny Ugreen M.2 SSD enclosure. I know that might seem a little ridiculous to say, with monitors, headphones and keyboards flying around my office, but allow me to explain.

In short, this little box can take any NVMe SSD you have lying around and, in a matter of moments, repurpose it as a fast and capacious USB drive. I've been using mine with a 2TB Crucial P310, and it's worked a charm for storing everything from hi-res video to benchmarking software.

This enclosure is down to £14 from Amazon thanks to a tick-box voucher that takes nearly a further £3 off, giving you the chance to make use of some old tech for cheap, and get something rather useful at the end of it at a handy discount.

Ugreen M.2 SSD to USB-C enclosure Now £14.25 (was £16.96, with tick-box discount) See at Amazon UK

Of course, this enclosure isn't magic - it's a small metal box with a M.2 slot inside that fits virtually any size of NVMe drive, from the smaller 2230 drives used in Steam Decks to the longer 2280 drives used in desktops and laptops. You don't even need to screw anything in, as this enclosure features toolless installation. On the top side of the enclosure is a thermal pad for better heat dissipation to keep your drive cooler, which is always welcome.

This is a USB-C enclosure, so it'll fit well with modern systems that feature the connector, such as MacBooks from the last 5+ years and a lot of Windows laptops and desktops. To be specific, it supports USB 3.2 Gen 2 with the UASP acceleration protocol to offer theoretical speeds of up to 10Gbps - that's especially brisk, and works out to read and write speeds on your SSD of up to 1000MB/s. It may not maximise the true read and write speeds of even older PCIe 3.0 drives, but is still several orders of magnitude faster and more responsive than standard flash drives.

You get a USB-C to USB-C cable included in the box for the sake of convenience, while there is also support for older SATA drives if you don't have any NVMe drives knocking around. There is also no need to install extra drivers, either. Simply slot the drive in, and plug the enclosure in, and you should be good to go. Build quality here is solid too, with an aluminium enclosure and silicone padding to help with protection in case you drop it - it happens. I use mine to store Final Cut Pro editing libraries, plus associated video and photo files, and it's worked well.

If you want to repurpose an old SSD as a speedy flash drive, this Ugreen M.2 SSD to USB-C enclosure offers you the chance for a bargain price from Amazon.