SABRENT 2.5-Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Clear External Hard Drive Enclosure

Cool looking, works perfectly, plug & play. If I was TRYING to be picky, I would add a tiny bit of padding somewhere on the inside, because I can be clumsy, and can see myself accidentally knocking this off my desk. (This is a “me” problem) - Super easy to setup. Well worth the price.

This was exactly what I was looking for. Easy access to swap a drive if I need to and best part of all IT HAS A POWER SWITCH ON IT! Now for those of you that wonder why I say that. First of all I work on computers and I also edit audio and video files for various companies for commercials, demos, theatrical events and that's my side business and hobby. So I move around a lot of large raw and wav and assorted video files and backup applications and then there's Windows 10. If you live and breath in windoze land and by their rules like an ostrich with your head in the sand or a sheep then you may as well stop reading this and move on. But if you run multiple operating systems like I do then golden rule #1. Windows watches and monitors EVERYTHING you do constantly. All my documents pictures and private things are kept on external drives specifically for this reason and also because I want to be able to use them in various flavors of linux or on mac as well. so ALL of it stays on externals nicely out of windows prying eyes. I can plug this drive the way I have it set up into any pc, and use the on and off switch when I want something from it. This completely stops all this "you need to scan and fix this drive before you can use it" crap. Now anyone that uses other operating systems knows no matter what you do, even if you use the little eject usb options in windows, if you run the drive on a different operating system first time you use it on windows again its going to do this and also it may ask you or tell you to reformat the drive. There is nothing wrong with anything except its just windows getting prissy cause you used another operating system besides theirs. this is the only reason this happens. I say prissy cause amazon wont let me say B----y in a review but this is the bare facts. Windows thinks its the only thing in the world worth using and they want you to think that too. Anyway I dropped a Crucial BX500 1tb sold state drive in this and its perfect, and does everything I want it to and I'm getting great read and write speeds and a lot faster than any of the seagate or WD external drives and it does exactly what I want. The only thing that would make it any better was if it was externally powered so windows couldn't put it to sleep. If you use external drives and are tired of drives sleeping and windows constantly nagging you about what you do with it then try doing it thsi way. Its faster, its solid state so you don't have to worry about shock speeds or heat and its fast. Extremely fast depending on the drive you choose to put in it and best of all its actually lower in priceand you get better performance than the other "ready-to-go" off the shelf pre made externals. Read a little, learn a little and try it yourself and save yourself some money time and frustration. and dont let the odd usb cable fool you, they are easy to find and the connector is a lot less trouble free than a mini usb or type c and the best part of it, you can use this setup with a common cable they way I have it set up with any android or apple phone that allows external storage so its versatile as well. Just buy it. You wont regret it. I have mine setup with 2 partitions. one set up as storage and I have a 40gb partition with Linux Mint 64 bootable on it all set up as a service toolbox for other PC's as well and it just flies in anything I attach it to. A lot faster than a flash drive and 900gb of space to do or save anything else you want. You cant make a seagate or WD prefab external do that like this and have it run this well. There's absolutely no cons here, just possibly the perfect external drive case.

Simple installation and works as expected. Quality construction.

Plugged in my HP 1TB SATA SSD and it all works fine. Reduced rating by 1 star because of fitment issue. These cases brag about being "tool less" and that is a great design feature. This one did indeed come apart per the directions. Now, just drop the SSD in, connect it up and we're off and running. Not so fast. The Sabrent case was perhaps 1 - 1.5mm short. This made for some fussing around to figure out I needed to load the drive into the connector at an angle, then as the drive moved into the connector it dropped into the case just fine. Didn't find any guidance about this in the packaging, but it's not a deal breaker.

The laptop Clear External Hard Drive Enclosure was nominally priced & arrived within the allotted time. It was easy to setup & connected directly to my Win 11 PC using the included USB Cord. It was immediately recognized & transferred data at the advertised rate, without error(s). I recommend this product & the e-Tailer who provided it.

Love it! Easy to use and works great!

I picked this up to replace an older enclosure that was constantly giving me connectivity issues, and honestly, this was a no-brainer. The tool-free design made installation effortless — it took me less than two minutes to pop in the drive and have it up and running. I have it connected to my ASUS BE88U router as storage for my Merlin add-on scripts. Plugged it in and boom — everything worked instantly. No configuration headaches, no weird formatting issues, just smooth plug-and-play functionality. Since then, it’s been rock solid. No random disconnects, fast transfer speeds, and it just works every time. If you're looking for a simple, reliable enclosure, this one delivers.

I've ordered 3 of these over the years and I'm very happy with them. Just retired our old laptop and wanted to save the hard drive as a back up drive. This enclosure is very easy to install the drive into and very affordable. It comes with the USB cable. I've never had a problem with them.

I originally bought this as a quick way to connect my old laptop drives so that I could make sure that everything was backed up before wiping them. Connecting the drives way easy, as they just slide in while the power's off. The lid just slides forward from the back when you want to put a drive in. Browsing and copying the files was fast and smooth, and there were none of the usual slowdowns you get when transferring files over USB. Where the enclosure came into its own though, was when holding an SSD. Copying files to and from the enclosed drive is very fast. I haven't noticed much of a difference between having the drive connected inside the computer. I've even used it as a boot drive to run Linux, and there are no slowdowns when running an operating system from an SSD in the enclosure. I'm writing the review now because I'm buying a second enclosure for my wife to use, as I've found it so much faster than a regular USB pen drive. Obviously it's bigger than a pen drive, but in my opinion, the massive increase in speed is worth it. The only downside is the cable. It's great and works excellently, but it's USB A on both sides, which tends to be unusual. It's not a major issue, but it does mean that if you break the cable, you're not likely to have a spare to hand. That's literally the only downside i've found to this enclosure though. I highly recommend it :)

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Produto atende bem minhas necessidades, gostei muito.

Muy fácil de utilizar y funciona muy bien.

Molto comodo per riutilizzare, ad es., dischi S-ATA da 2,5" espiantati da notebook (per avvenuta sostituzione con altri più capienti e/o veloci), ma ancora utili per piccoli backup, o per portabilità di file che non richiedano le velocità permesse dai dispositivi più recenti. Rapporto qualità costruttiva-prezzo decisamente ottimo, facile da aprire e richiudere (non richiede attrezzi), alloggia i dischi con precisione e con la giusta rigidità. In dotazione c'è anche un cavo di buona fattura. Infine, aspetto gradito, dispone anche di un pratico interruttore on/off per non tenere acceso il disco quando ciò non sia necessario. Funziona bene e, in questo, è in linea con altri prodotti della medesima marca, che in genere ho trovato piuttosto ben fatti, anche più di un gradino sopra la media.