Cooler Master Oracle Air NVME M.2 SSD Enclosure Review

How Much Does it Cost?

The Cooler Master Oracle Air is launching today with an MSRP of just £59.99 but can be bought for just £49.99 if you’re purchasing the WD Blue 1TB drive along with it. This means you can get both the drive and the enclosure for just £104.99, which I think is a pretty fantastic deal given the overall performance and build quality on offer.

It’s currently available on OCUK with a range of prices from £59.99 to £204.94 with a choice of 250GB, 500GB, 1TB and 2TB NVMe SSDs. However, there’s also a small discount on the bundles too, so well worth checking out!

Overview

Cooler Master may be a new player in the portable storage enclosure market, but if this is what they can do on their first attempt, then sign me up for their future products. Even before the release of this enclosure today, Cooler Master furnished me with an impressive array of documentation and presentations about how this enclosure will be supported. There are going to be open-sourced 3D printable components, and replacement parts available from their store, they’re already testing a USB4 version of it to push the performance even higher, and they’ve already put in place a deal with Western Digital to provide customers with a great starting point too.

When it comes to the build quality, it’s a 10/10 product all day long. There’s something very tactile about it too, it has a really nice weight that you can play with. I suspect you could comfortably juggle a few of them, as they just move right and feel good in your hand. Maybe that’s a silly detail, but it does just feel like a nice product. Even the release clip and the way the drive mount sort of reloads into the external shell, it’s all very satisfying, and shows a lot of care went into the user experience.

As for performance, I really can’t fault it. Cooler Master said it’ll deliver 1000 MB/s read and write, and I got 1048.48 MB/s read and 1006.42 MB/s write, which is obviously superb. I ran the benchmarks over and over again, trying to get it to throttle, but it was having none of it, the benchmarks were exceptionally consistent.

Should I Buy One?

This is one of the best-looking, most durable, stylish, well-supported and versatile NVMe enclosers on the market, it’s just that good. The price, design, and practicality of it are absolutely spot on. Highly recommended.