Could I "rescue" mis-bought Lacies?

[seggy]

So I got some Lacie Rugged 2Tb SSD drives seeing the "TB3/4 compatible" product listing. Since it was priced like a 3.2x2 drive, I automatically assumed it was at least 20Gb. However they turned out to be just regular 10Gb-C SSD's.

I'm not concerned about the rugged aspect since these will be desktop drives. If I wanted a bunch of 10Gb drives, instead of dropping 2K on these I could have just bought a bunch of $20 Orico enclosures, scrounged up some older gen 3 SSD's and done it for a fraction of the price.

Kinda mad... Both with the product listing (not unique to my distributor, the same product listing was up almost everywhere) and me for not reading past said listing. And since this was a purchase thru my commercial distributor, I can't return anything unless it's actually faulty.

Does anyone know what drives are in these, and whether they are non-destructibly re-homeable into a USB4/TB enclosure to get better performance (at least a current good 3.2x2 external drive equivalent)?

 

[PaulD-UK]

@seggy "The Rugged SSD comes in five varieties, three in the classic orange (now come fitted with an SSD, plus a USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 port), featuring a Barracuda NVMe Drive in the 500GB version, while the 1TB and 2TB come with a FireCuda NVMe inside. The ones encased in black have a Thunderbolt 3 port."
Link.

The NVMe should be removable to use in another enclosure.
But the PCB for the interface would have to be completely changed to the Thunderbolt 3 version to get the full NVMe speeds, and since it's likely unobtainable, the existing case is probably not 'non-destructibly' reusable.

 

[seggy]

This would also be my assumption and that I'm basically boned, but I was wondering if someone with more technical knowledge would be able to point me otherwise. While I did see reference to the Firecuda it doesn't say which Firecuda... but assuming the 530, I would imagine it could scale a lot higher. I wanted confirmation of that.

Either:
- I rip the cases apart and re-home them for another ~$1K in TB/USB4 enclosures voiding any warranty
- I read gud, spend another $2K and get the drives I actually wanted with a warranty.
I am wondering if there's an option C.