SinLoon 2.5'' Hard Disk Drive SATA 22Pin to eSATA Data USB Powered Cable Adapter for Optimized for SSD, Support UASP SATA IIIEC-SSHD(Black)

Works perfectly!! I needed to transfer the contents of my 7 year old Sony VPCF112 laptop's 500GB 7200 rpm hard drive to a new Amazon-purchased Samsung EVO 850 2.5" form factor solid state disk drive (SSD) with a SATA connector. The laptop happened to have an eSATA port that I had never once used in 7 years. Doing the math eSATA should be up to 180 MBytes/sec vs. 60 MB/s theoretical for USB 2.0 or (from experience) more like 25MB/sec actual for sustained transfer. The hard drive is rated for 60MB/sec reads.I bought an Amazon Basics USB 2.0 extender cable 1m long to extend the USB power cable in this adapter. Good thing I did! I needed every bit of it. I used a USB powered hub with 1A per port, but for teh SSD highly likely just a regular USB 2.0 port would do for power. The USB cable on this thing is short. Unless you happen to have a USB port right next to your eSATA port you better get the extender cable. It is Amazon #B00NH11R3I .So I plugged the eSATA end into the laptop eSATA port, the USB end into the extender cable and into the USB hub, then the SSD drive into this adapter. Then brought up disk manager in windows and sure enough, there is my new SSD drive! Initialized it and assigned a drive letter in disk manager, then started Samsung's migration software. Worked perfectly. The software reported a 56MB/sec transfer rate, nearly equalling that published disk drive read rate of 60MB/sec. This cable works!!!

I wanted it for cloning drives for updating laptops to SSD. It worked immediately & was immediately 3x faster than usb2 on my old laptop. Some complaints are about the cable ends being too short. That's only a problem if you arent crafty. So, the way the cable is constructed, it's clearly 2 cables stuck together at that "block", and you could easily split that block with a razor blade if you wanted to. That "issue" wouldnt slow me down for a minute, if it were a problem for me (it wasnt, and I havent needed to split it). No drivers needed or anything like that, it just worked. If you want to do faster HDD transfers, this cheap cable is a great deal. I wish I had it sooner, no lie.

I purchased this cable along with a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E500B/AM) and connected it to my Verizon DVR. The power from the USB was enough to operate the SSD so I did not have to buy a separate drive enclosure with power supply. I just left the drive open behind the DVR and it works perfectly (no heat-related issues).To add the drive do the following:1. Access the DVR menu.2. Select Enable More Storage.3. Then select "Activate External Hard Drive (eSATA)."4. Plug this cable into the SATA Drive and USB ports at the back of the DVR.5. Press OK to activate.I highly recommend this cable!BTW - the DVR is lightning fast because of the SSD drive, which is perfect for FF and REW!

Works great with SSD drives & 2.5" HDD only

It is an elegant solution when you need to do something very specific: connect a bare SATA drive to an eSATA port that doesn't have power but have available a convenient USB port from which to draw power. Obviously, only a temporary solution for bare magnetic HDDs, but bare SSDs often have a casing which makes them work equally externally, without the hassle and extra cost of putting them in an external case.Why use eSATA (and occupy a USB port) instead of just using an eSATA to USB cable? A couple of possibilities:- Speed - for high-end drives, eSATA is faster than USB 3.- Speed - for pretty much any drive, eSATA is faster than USB 2 (or USB 1, assuming it provides enough power).- Speed - if the eSATA port is on a different bus than USB, and you already use USB for another drive, they don't have to share the same bus.- Functionality - In my setup, I cannot boot off a USB 3 drive but can boot from eSATA. (Short explanation: iMac with USB 2 and Thunderbolt 1 connected to a Thunderbolt dock with two USB 3 ports and one eSATA port. An SSD can be connected with good speed to any port on the dock, but the iMac will only boot from the eSATA.)So, it works, it is lightweight and slim yet solidly-built. If you need this solution, you are in luck.

Doesn't work straight out of the package. SSD is not detected at all when using this adapter but works correctly with other sata cables. Tried multiple times on different machines. Brand new and defective.

The usb side on this cable WILL NOT power a 3.5inch hdd even tho the pictures indicate it will. 3.5inch requires 12v and apparently usb will only handle 5v. Pretty disappointed. Will be returning it.

Finally decided to replace the hard drive on my old laptop to squeeze a bit more out of it with a new SSD (Samsung 870 EVO 1T). I was wondering if my old USB ports would support the drive cloning when I noticed the eSATA on my laptop that I had never used. This cable worked perfectly to connect the eSATA and USB ports on my laptop to the new SSD SATA connection during the cloning process. Even for a one time use, this was a cost effective solution.