Published May 14, 2026, 7:00 PM EDT Hamlin has been in the tech field for over seven years. Since 2017, his work has appeared on MakeUseOf , OSXDaily, Beebom, MashTips, and more. He served as the Senior Editor for MUO for two years before joining XDA. He uses a Windows PC for desktop use and a MacBook for traveling, but dislikes some of the quirks of macOS. You're more likely to catch him at the gym or on a flight than anywhere else. When I upgraded to Gen 5 SSDs, I let my old PCIe 3.0 NVMe drives sit around for quite a while because I didn't know if I should give them away or keep them as spare storage. After all, my Crucial T700's 12,000MB/s sequential speeds made them feel outdated, so it didn't make much sense to have them in my build, especially since I already had a Corsair MP600 Gen 4 as secondary storage. Then, when I came across NVMe enclosures on Amazon while shopping for external SSDs, I realized what I'd been missing out on.…