ORICO 2.5 Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool-free External Hard Drive Enclosure for 2.5" SATA III HDD and SSD with UASP Compatible for Windows Mac OS (Black)

Just needed a chassis for a 2.5" SATA drive which I had taken from an old netbook and wanted to use as a Time Machine back up disc for a Macbook Air.Ordered yesterday evening and it arrived, as promised, the following morning (Prime delivery).Installing the drive was simple: top cover slides off, sata drive slides in, top cover slides back on. Bingo.Comes with two pieces of self adhesive foam which I applied - one on the case under the drive and the other on the top surface of the drive. Once the cover is replaced, these cushion the drive nicely and help hold it securely in place.The case is plastic but substantial, not flimsy. Simple design but pleasant enough.USB cable is supplied with the chassis. Once installed, I plugged it in and all worked perfectly.All in all, very happy with this item and great value too at the asking price. Would happily recommend.

I needed a portable enclosure for a 1tb 2.5 inch hdd that I had extra so installed it in there and turned it into a portable hard drive. I can now use it with either my laptop or desktop computer and it works automatically very well via USB 3.0. Only downside is that the other end of the cable is proprietary so if you lose it then you are stuck. However it works with basically any 2.5 inch drive such as an ssd or hdd. The case is quite solid and tool-less as well so no screw driver is required. Simply slide the lid off, slot in the hard drive and slide the lid back closed and it clicks in place and is very secure and does not fall out. I have carried this in my backpack or suitcase multiple times and it is quite safe and portable. It does not take up tons of room either which is great and only has a blue activity LED so not too intrusive.

Had an existing external usb hard drive that was causing the Xbox to freeze and was unreadable.Decided to try this so as to determine if it was my old hdd or enclosure at fault.Dismantled my old external drive and put the hdd in this enclosure and it went together very easily.The hdd has been working flawlessly in this enclosure for weeks now, so all positive from me :)

ordered this on the 20th march arrived 22and was pleased with it is that easy to use slide the top off slide in the hdd it will click into the connections slide the top back on plug it in and there it is as simple as that. Build quality is adequate don't know how long it will last but will update later.UPDATEHi i was not expecting to do this, just after submitting the review for this one did it not just stop working. And i have actually just gone and bought another one that will arrive today, i would send the other one back, but no longer have the box and besides that have used the wee bits of foam. I am disappointed with this as it is quite a nice little unit. i will wait and see how long the new one will last, so i will keep the box this time.

I have bought several of these over the years. Never a problem. Good value.

Review for ORICO 2.5 Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool-free External Hard Drive Enclosure for 2.5"Great enclosure and exactly what I wanted. I have a bunch of old 2.5" HDD that i swap in and out of this unit as required. Very easy and seems to work fine. With an old SSD installed, and plugged into a usb 3.1 port I get read speeds up to 380MB/s and write speeds of 260MB/s which is fine.Lid is removable so you can easily sway drives our without any tools, although be warned that I keep mine on my desk, if you travel with it you might want to secure the lid to avoid accidental separation.Cannot comment on reliability as I have only owned for a week, but I will update review if I have any issues.

Just bought a second one of these cases (09/22) and it's soooo much faster than the 1st one I bought so upped review to 5 stars. Not tried it on a RasPi yet as it was for a laptop & desktop. I suspect the 1st chipset was an early try at USB3 while this version is fully USB3 compliant.==============Works well on laptops and desktops, but won't work on Raspberry Pi's (1B or 3B) (or a tablet) with either a normal laptop hard disk, a SSHD, or a SSD, (120Gb, 240Gb, 480Gb and 1Tb) which is what I ordered it for. The case probably uses too much power.However my older / different 2 cases work well with the same disks so I've swapped them over and now use this one for the Laptop, and an older different one with a 512Gb SSHD on the Raspberry Pi 3.Buy if you are not using it on a RasPi.

Compared to other enclosures I've purchased, several since too - this thing is FAST