UGREEN 2.5" Hard Drive Enclosure USB 3.0 to SATA III Adapter,5Gbps

This enclosure is amazing! faster than other i’ve tried and it was only $10. it’s working great for repurposing an old ps4 drive or really any 2.5” drive you may have. i would recommend this product to anyone wanting a cheap but good and fast external hdd. Ugreen never disappoints.

If you're like I was, and had harvested a hard drive from a dead computer which had important files which couldn't be retrieved through conventional means (like the document browser in your OS) or the os can't be accessed at all, then this device will make things a lot easier. The device will accept any of those standard external drive chords, which has a USB end on it and will plug into anything with a standard USB input. Two separate medium-high end laptops were able to recognize this with no problem and I was able to access the drive as a spare drive in my computer. Haven't tested with a desktop yet but I suspect the performance is just as good. I then transferred 16,000 music files from a drive through serato to my other laptop and it only took about 30 minutes. Transfer speed is no issue, it's certainly faster than my 500gb Seagate external drive which usually takes over an hour to do such tasks. It has a convenient blue indicator light which isn't intrusive and will blink when it's connecting, sometimes reading tasks, and turn solid blue when it's running the drive at full speed, full efficiency. I've been using it for about two days now, have used two separate 2.5 inch drives and initialized one through disk manager, the other I'm still repeatedly connecting and disconnecting to my computer to analyze files until I'm ready to wipe it and initialize as well. Overall for this price you cannot go wrong, I love this already and it's everything I needed. No need to mess with those cheaper versions which certainly look alot worse, some can snap/bend your pins on your drives and don't even encase your entire drive or SSD into the enclosure safely like this will do. This is much better, much more stable, much more convenient. I would suggest a dedicated version of this for your bigger 3.5 inch drives, as this simply doesn't take that size. Unless you're willing to just spend more on a different device entirely which reads both, this is an amazing device for any smaller drive. It will give easy plug and play access to any 2.5" drive, any standard size SSD, or turn them into a reliable external drive entirely. I've even tossed it around with my 500gb WD blue drive inside it, and the drive is still perfectly safe and reads with no issues. Definitely one of those things I'll keep finding uses for, and Im very happy to have this as a convenient little tool for data retrieval and many other things I can't even think of at the moment. Thanks for reading and I hope you'll enjoy this too.

Test box: Lenovo Ideapad 3, 20GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx, 2100 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s). OS Runs from a SK Hynix 512GB, M.2 2280 SSD. The USB Port used was USB 3.1. OS: Windows 11 Home Drive installed: KINGSTON SA400S37480G 480GB SCSI Disk Device, 2.5" SATA Enclosure: (this item) UGREEN 2.5" Hard Drive Enclosure USB 3.0 to SATA III for 2.5 Inch SSD & HDD 9.5mm 7mm Review: it arrived on time, packaged well, installed quickly, the hard disk installation was plug and play. No tools required. I ran CrystalDiskMark 8.0 with all the defaults except I selected NVMe SSD profile. This old school SATA SSD was pulling harder than another device I reviewed that was using a competitors enclosure and a NVMe M.2 2280 SSD. The results were basically But they were close enough to convince me the only real bottleneck is in my USB 3.1 interface. I think these babies can go faster if I had a laptop that wasn't 3 years old. The controller supports S.M.A.R.T. and most of the usual things you would expect. I'm curious to see what they can really do, but for my purposes they are fast, quiet, cool, easy to install and use, and they look nice. It copied the 3.0 GB Ubuntu install ISO in 11.8 seconds at a speed of 257MB/sec. it copied 64.5 Gigs of various 'videos' in 4.5 minutes, a speed of 238.8 MB/sec. OS Name Microsoft Windows 11 Home Version 10.0.22000 Build 22000 System Name ******* System Manufacturer Lenovo System Model 81W0 Processor AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx, 2100 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date LENOVO E8CN30WW, 7/28/2021 SMBIOS Version 3.1 Embedded Controller Version 1.30 BIOS Mode UEFI BaseBoard Manufacturer LENOVO BaseBoard Product LNVNB161216 BaseBoard Version SDK0J40700WIN Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 20.0 GB Total Physical Memory 17.9 GB Available Physical Memory 8.66 GB Total Virtual Memory 21.5 GB Available Virtual Memory 3.66 GB Page File Space 3.63 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys Drive D: Description Local Fixed Disk Compressed No File System NTFS Size 447.11 GB (480,085,274,624 bytes) Free Space 170.36 GB (182,917,894,144 bytes) Description Disk drive Manufacturer (Standard disk drives) Model KINGSTON SA400S37480G SCSI Disk Device Bytes/Sector 512 Media Loaded Yes Media Type External hard disk media Partitions 1 SCSI Bus 0 SCSI Logical Unit 0 SCSI Port 1 SCSI Target ID 0 Sectors/Track 63 Size 447.13 GB (480,101,368,320 bytes) Total Cylinders 58,369 Total Sectors 937,697,985 Total Tracks 14,884,095 Tracks/Cylinder 255 Partition Disk #1, Partition #0 Partition Size 447.11 GB (480,085,278,720 bytes) Partition Starting Offset 16,777,216 bytes DETAILED INFOS Feature support: SMART supported: Yes SMART enabled: Yes SMART self-test supported: No SMART error log supported: No LBA supported: Yes IORDY supported: Yes CFast supported: No DMA supported: Yes Maximum Multiword DMA mode supported: 2 Multiword DMA selected: None Maximum UltraDMA mode supported: 6 UltraDMA selected: 6 Maximum PIO mode supported: 4 SATA Compliance: Yes NCQ priority information supported: No Unload while NCQ commands are outstanding supported: No Phy Event Counters supported: Yes Receipt of power management requests supported: No NCQ feature set supported: Yes Software Settings Preservation: Supported, Enabled In-order data delivery: Not supported Initiating power management: Supported, Disabled DMA Setup auto-activation: Supported, Disabled Non-zero buffer offsets: Not supported Trusted Computing supported: No Host Protected Area (HPA) supported: Yes Read look-ahead supported: Yes Read look-ahead enabled: Yes Write cache supported: Yes Write cache enabled: Yes Power management supported: Yes Security mode supported: Yes Security mode enabled: No Device Configuration Overlay (DCO) supported: No 48bit Addressing supported: Yes Auto Acoustic Managment (AAM) supported: No Power-up in Standby (PUIS) supported: No Advanced Power Management (APM) supported: Yes Advanced Power Management (APM) enabled: No CompactFlash Association (CFA) supported: No General Purpose Logging (GPL) supported: Yes Streaming supported: No Media card pass through supported: No Extended power conditions supported: No Extended status reporting supported: No Write-read-verify supported: No Free-fall control supported: No TRIM command supported: Yes SCT command transport supported: No NV Cache enabled: No NV Cache Power Management supported: No

This seems to work, my only issue is that I was not paying attention, I was replacing a very old 2.5" enclosure that had micro usb to usb a...and I got this one thinking it was just usb a...its a cable that has what looks like micro usb and micro hdmi next to each other and one cable with that end to usb 3. Its ok because this is going to be a in a drawer..but if I lose this cable, I'll just toss this enclosure.

Works well with my samsung 2.5" SSD

Get good read/write speeds (I only have a cheap old PNY SSD in it, but it seems similar to what you would get over SATA 3.)

I was pleasantly surprised at the build quality of this reasonably-priced product. The case is easy to open and holds the drive securely between two foam pads. No rattling around even though the drive is not secured with screws. The case has a nice sleek style too. As for performance, the data transfer rates seem very good. I haven't measured them, but my impression is that the transfer is very fast, certainly fast enough for my needs. Would definitely recommend.

I specifically purchased this to replace the USB drive on my Tesla Model 3. The left over SSD drive I put in it has a FAR longer lifespan and far more durability than just about any USB drive. It works exactly like I thought it would. A great bargain at $10.

Lo compre para mi ps5 y funciona de maravilla, 100% recomendado

Review at the time of delivery: Build Quality: Looks sturdy and durable, and the padding on the sides is great for providing support to the drive from shocks. Connectivity: USB C would have been a better interface to replace many cables, but the provided A to B cable does justice. Speeds: I am using an 8 year old HDD in the encasing and I am getting close to 140 MB/s sequential read and write. Check the image for testing done using Crystal Disk Mark. Speed in my case is limited by my HDD which is supposed to deliver 140MB/s, so the interfacing electronics aren't the limiting factor. Heating: Did not heat much beyond 33 degrees in my short term use. Long term checks needed. Ease of Use: direct plug and play, no software or explicit driver installation required. In my little time using this casing, it seems to be working good. Since the limiting factor here is my drive, I can't test the full speeds of the case. But I think at this price range, it is a good value for money. Great protection from shocks, sturdy and drable material and great speeds. Recommended over other cheaper versions that could potentially damage disks.

perfect

I recently decommissioned a few old laptop computers that had reached the end of their practical usefulness. Two of them had fairly large SSD drives (750GB and 1TB) that, as far as I could tell, were still perfectly good, and would make excellent external backup drives. All I needed was an enclosure for them so I could use them as USB drives. This UGREEN case is exactly what I needed. It is super easy to use. Just slide off the back cover, insert the old laptop SSD (the connecting pins were precisely placed), return the cover and plug it into your computer. It was instantly recognized as a USB drive and ready to go. For under ¥1000, this is a great way to extend the life of your old storage drives.

Great quality at affordable price. You install the drive without any tools. Just slide the too lid and connect the drive. All in 1 minute.