SABRENT USB 3.0 Enclosure for 2.5” & 3.5” SATA HDD/SSD – Tool-Free, UASP, LED Indicator, Plug & Play, Power Adapter & Cable Included – External Hard Drive Case for Windows/macOS/Linux (EC-KSL3)

These are great for shucked external HDDs (the plastic exterior is removed and the USB/Power adapter taken out) or for regular internal HDDs. I get 250-270 MB/sec reading and writing from other internal HDD's or from other USB drives that aren't sharing the same USB lanes. If you're getting poor transfer speeds, use a different USB port or a different source drive.They don't heat up more than a couple degrees over background even with long sustained read/writes. The case is made of a pretty sturdy metal that conducts heat well. That said, I don't chance it and have a small desk fan blowing on all of my external drives to ensure good airflow.There are two power buttons, one in the back and a second on the front (the blue dot in the photo).Overall 5/5, I've already bought a second one and will likely buy more as my 8 disk DAS cannot run HDDs larger than 20TB above USB 2.0 speeds (presumably due to lack of power provided to each drive). These ones fly no problem even with 24TB Ironwolf Pros.

I reluctantly had to retire my 11 year old desktop computer because I could not upgrade it to Windows 11 specs. I decided to try this device for my current hard drive. It works exactly as described. Easy to mount the drive. Only one button and a drive activity light on top in the back. Piece of cake. Now, when I went to file explorer, it took probably 20 minutes to build the file structure for about 250 gig of programs and data. Copying the files I wanted on the new computer seemed pretty fast to me. I could not be happier with this purchase. So now I can use it to back up new files.

A must-have for working with drives outside of machines. I've worked with several external hard-drive interfaces, some better than others. Having its own power supply, this one doesn't suffer from insufficient voltage drops like ones that use two USB cables do. Unlike some other external cases, this one completely encloses the drive. The presence of a power button is convenient, as it lets someone swap drives without having to unplug the cable. It works with both 3.5 inch drives and 2.5 in drives.

The drive enclosure works great. There is no assembly required and it's plug and play. The price is great.The cons are:-It doesn't hold the drive secure. It's basically an open box with a SATA connector. There's nothing holding the hard drive in place. I wouldn't throw it in a bag with a drive still plugged in.-It's surprisingly difficult to pull hard drives out. I've only used it with 2.5" drives thus far. They sit flush against the right side and there's nothing to grab. This basically forces you to lift it slightly upward so you can get a grip and pull it out. I'm concerned that will prematurely wear out the SATA connector.Overall, a great solution for the price.

Used this enclosure with a Samsung Spinpoint that’s been sitting in my closet since I bought the PS5, originally used it for PS4. At first it didn’t work when I plugged it in so had to hook it up to my laptop and format it to ‘exfat’ in the disk manager, which is annoying as hell to get there. Anyway, when I finally found it there were a whole bunch of partitions and clicked on the one that said 186gb as it’s a 2tb drive and had to erase the og data and was able to reformat. Am a happy customer with a new 2tb external drive for my PS5 Pro and can now gift my 2tb external hard drive I was using to my bro for his birthday.

Works great. Good for hot-swapping drives. Not hard to setup, and straight forward ease of use.This is a more stable replacement than my old HDD transfer that has multiple connections on a PCB, including a connection for SCSI HDD's, but I no longer have that anymore. This is good if in a pinch and data transfer is not bad.Also good for stress-testing drives, ran I/O to a drive i'll be using for main system, ran a stress test through this no problem using IOmeter, however doing any large file compares the drive will spin down or go idle, because power to the SATA may not be as efficient as being in a rig. Other than that, no biggie, it is a good enclosure for the job :)