OImaster Tool Free Hard Drive Enclosure USB 3.0 Interface for 2.5 inch HDD SSD 7mm 9.5mm 12.5mm UASP Supported

Look im gonna be blunt with you, if you want a very think, flimsy NOT SNUG AT ALL piece of plastic to protect you TB's of precious archived data, then open your cabinet and get some scissors then carve up a tupperware container because THIS isnt worth $8....$4... OR EVEN $.99 . 1st its advertised to hold 12.5mm drives (basically if you have a new fancy 4tb HDD, even with force and duct tape this thing wont fit. And you KNOW DUCT TAPE CAN SOLVE ANY PROBLEM... EXCEPT THIS. and even if you put a smaller HDD inside, it will bang around in all the extra unguarded air like the 1st time you... well you get my drift. #2. The USB 3.0 interface it uses IS NOT a SATA converter. It will make your device identify as a SCSI (outdated back to when the Govt actually functioned ... some time in the 80's i think). And im not biased. I tested this on 2 Macbook Pro's, A Windows 10 Desktop, and a Linux/Windows Alienware (2019) ... FAIL FAIL FAIL... reading and writing was so slow i literally left a surface scan running all night and woke up 9hrs later and it was at 75%... now in comparison, i connected the same drive up to an external NON POWERED converter usb 3.0 and completed the same surface scan in under 45 min. Final eval , PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFLT!!!....... G- ... and yes that is a "G -" because an F shouldnt have to be associated with this crap.! If you have an infant or a friend with a baby, wait til the child has had some healthy portions of Fruit, Applesauce, and Sweet potatoes, and maybe some of those greens for good measure... then at the next VERY AWFUL diaper change, dont throw it away... go get your HDD, and just sit it inside the diaper then wrap the straps tightly around your hdd.... THAT WILL BE A MUCH BETTER PROTECTOR AND 20X MORE EFFICIENT than this styrofoam takeout material enclosure that i feel violated for even testing it when i knew it was garbage on sight. Buy some gum and a vita water.. while chewing and drinking, use that time to look at other enclosures. Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Xmas to you all!

After almost having a disaster when I had a hard drive go bad on my NAS device, I decided it was time to stop putting off doing regular backups. I don't trust the cloud, yes even the Amazon cloud...sorry Amazon, so I have my own NAS device to store my files which has two mirrored hard drives. Still, even though when one HD failed I still had the mirrored copy, I was sweating it for a little while. I have been meaning to setup a backup system for some time and the "almost disaster" finally convinced me it was time. It just makes good sense to backup at least the most important files.I purchase this just for that reason. I did not need anything special and I already had a 500 GB hard drive so this fit the bill perfectly and at a good price. I had it up and running in about ten minutes. After downloading some backup software I am now backing up my files on a regular basis.All that said, this is a nice enclosure for under $10. I would not recommend it if you are a road warrior or plan to move it around a lot. It's just not that solid of an enclosure and I would not expect that for the price. If you intend to use it in a similar fashion as I described here, it will work well and I can recommend it. If you need something that can get banged around a lot, I would plan to spend some more money and purchase one a little more durable.

I can't really review this product because it didn't come with the transfer cable like it should have! I hope the company contacts me and sends me the transfer cable, otherwise I will have to return this product.***UPDATED REVIEW***HYmaster, the marketer for the Olmaster Hard Drive Enclosure was very respponsive to my problem and shipped me a new enclosure and cable shortly after I made them aware of my issue. It arrived the day before Christmas and today I used the enclosure and cable to clone my hard drive onto an SSD drive. Everything worked wonderfully and I have installed the SSD in my Toshiba laptop. I changed the rating from 1 starto 5 stars due to the EXCELLENT customer service from HYmaster and the performance of the Olmaster enclosure. I would recommend this product and company to everyone.

::update::After buying a new external drive for my PC gaming needs, I moved this unit to my PS4 instead of doing the whole replacement hdd thing aunt makes you go through. Anyway, works better than when it was connected to my PC. Connects on power up for the PS4 everytime.::Original::Great value, with one major caveat. I have to unplug and plug it back in every time I start up my PC. For whatever reason, it's never recognized upon startup. Setting as I use it to store the over flow of my games (2tb internal filled up fast) this kind of sucks. Sometimes I forget this step, especially since the lights come on the second power hits it. Starting up a game launcher then seeing no games and having to close, run the external gambit, restart launcher and add the directories again is getting old.On the plus side installing the drive into the case was crazy easy. Even sometime that has zero tech skills could do it.

Picked up one of these enclosures to replace an older Sabrent unit I gave to a friend...so far so good. No complaints at all; two different machines read and write without any problems. In fact worked well enough I picked up a second one to replace another Sabrent unit (those two enclosures use a USB A Female so if you lose the male-to-male cable you're kinda screwed until you get a replacement). Lightweight with an SSD in it and solid feeling with a platter drive, I've got nary an issue. If I did, I'd say my only desire is a more secure locking system. Since this is a tool-less enclosure, it uses only a slide lock which could be nudged accidentally. I didn't make this a true demerit since even if the lock is disengaged, it stays intact unless you actually try to disassemble it. Overall a good buy in my book and I would definitely come back for another if need be.

nice bright light to show its on and red when i writingthe lock unlock feature is way better than most slide featurethe drive enclosure stays closeplugged and worked perfect

Item is reasonably priced and is exactly as advertised. Works great and is perfect for my needs.

Appears to be decent quality for the price, was easy to install and use, worked as suspected. No complaints so far.

Put those hard drives you have to use, I replaced the mechanical hard drives in my laptops to replace them with ssd's. Then I put the mech drives into these enclosures for extra portable storage space.

Très facile à utiliser.