StarTech SATA to USB Cable, USB 5Gbps to 2.5in SATA I II III Hard Drive Adapt...

This wire is really good for my Crucial BX500 SATA SSD 2TB, 2.5" Internal SSD. (yes I know, it says internal), but because I like to "go on the move" with storage, this wire helps me a lot with that. The wire has been through so many travels and not a single issue with it. I do have it in a case. The wire is really easy to "use". What I mean by that is - you just connect your drive and then plug the other end into a laptop or PC (or phone/tablet) and works perfectly. It fit's pefectly in bags, just be carful to not bend the connector if you keep it connected to your storage drive. It might look "long" and flexible but that is the wire, not the connector pins which you can bend pretty easily if you are careless. Easy to connect to any storage drive so long as you are not forceful with it.

I have about 5 of these - they work for booting Raspberry Pis from SSDs.

Update Nov 2018 I've been using a couple of these at home, and found them very useful and versatile. Perfect for connecting SSDs to a PC for formatting, etc., and work extremely well in combination with cheap 32Gb SATA SSDs with Raspberry Pi 3B and 3B+ computers. They will also power 2.5 SATA hard drives, should you wish to use them. I'm a teacher, and recently acquired for my classroom a complete set of Raspberry Pi 3Bs. I use 20+ of these cables with 32Gb SSDs to provide the working environment for my pupils. These cables *just work*, and make the task of getting the pupils up and running at the start of each lesson really easy. Top recommendation. Great piece of kit. There may be cheaper alternatives on Amazon, but I'm sticking with these for the next classroom I fit out. ---- Purchased to allow the connection of a cheap 30Gb SSD to a Raspberry Pi 3B, to act as the OS drive for an experimental server. Worked flawlessly, and even can work with a 500Gb 2.5" SATA drive I had kicking around -- powered from the Pi, which in turn was powered by a USB to microUSB cable from a monitor! This, plus a cheap SSD make the Pi an excellent and reliable tool -- I cannot rely on microSD cards for longevity, and USB flash drives, though an acceptable substitute, are not as good as an SSD and one of these cables. Highly recommended.

In and of itself, it's a fine cable adapter. But be careful with what you want to connect - spec says 0.9A, but USB3 data ports are spec'ed for 500mA only. Basically, this won't work on its own to power a typical 1A SATA HDD and most SDD SATA drives need even more amps.

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I bought the Startech USB to SATA cable to clone my Samsung 700Z laptop gard drive to a Sandisk Ultra II 960GB SSD. I connected the cable to the SSD and to the USB on my laptop any although I had the 'new hardware sound' but no drive appeared under 'my computer'. At first I thought like some reviewers that this cable wouldn't work with my laptop as the USB didn't provide enough power. So I tried it in a desktop and the same. Both with windows 10. I then tried a Dell tablet and again no joy. I did the standard google search and there were two things I needed to do. 1) Initialise the new SSD and 2) Format the new SSD. After doing both (google it to see how) the drive was now visible. I downloaded Macrium cloning software (the free version) and set in off while I went to plan tennis. Two hours later all cloned and no errors. It took about 10 minutes to remove the back of the laptop and replace the HDD with the SDD. WOW... what a difference. The laptop boots in less than 5 seconds and works so quickly. No errors, no problems, perfect. The lead and SSD are both fab, I had no problems with an old laptop running Windows 10. No drivers to download, it just worked (though remember to initialise and format the SSD. Not a full format, just a quick format. Good luck!

It's a pretty simple product so I can't go into that much depth with this review. The first thing to say is that it functions perfectly well. It fits nicely and the hard drive connects as well as it did with my old eSATA (now redundant thanks to new motherboard). Here come speed tests: 465mb exe file from HDD using this cable to internal SSD: min = 4.42s (how is this even possible?) max = 15.00s average = 12.404s average transfer rate = 37.49mb/s 465mb exe file from internal SSD to HDD using this cable: min = 17.10s (how is this even possible?) max = 17.22s average = 17.17s average transfer rate = 27.08mb/s It feels reasonable well made although obviously they haven't made any effort to make it aesthetically pleasing, but that doesn't really matter. It feels like it won't break when left behind my computer for years.

This is a very useful connector with a suitable cable length for using with an external 2.5inch HDD or SSD. It allows the fast USB 3 transfer speed, so its good to back up a laptop or games console to an external drive. If you have a smart tv like some Samsung's which allow recording, you can attach an external drive to a usb 3 or 2 socket on the tv and record to it. With 2.5" drives now being up to 2 terrabytes, this little cable connector becomes even more useful for simple plug and play with many modern devices. You could for example store your entire music collection on 1 or more external drives, easily put one in your pocket and just plug it into any usb media player, tv, av amp or even car cd player with usb and you will always have your choice of entertainment with you wherever you are. Obviously it won't work with 3.5" drives as there is not enough juice to power them but for the now ever cheaper 2.5" variety this can be an often used, inexpensive and versatile bit of kit. Everyone who likes modern home entertainment or who backs up their pc's and laptops should have one of these.

Funciona perfeitamente

Prima kabel voor het extern aansluiten van SSD drives. Werkt prima.

同じ様なSATA USB 3.0のやっすい変換ケーブルを買って使った所一か月持たずSSDを認識しなくなったのでこちらを購入し三か月ほど使っていますが特に問題なく使えているので助かっています。 やはり安い物は安いなりの理由があるんですね・・・

Good quality and as described.

Ayant acheté avant ce câble StarTech une panoplie de câbles venant d'Aliexpress à, certes, beaucoup moins cher, je peux dire qu'y mettre une certaine somme en plus n'est pas juste symbolique : le saut est remarquable, immense. Ca change tout. Pour le contexte, j'ai utilisé ce câble pour brancher un ssd bootable sur RasPi. Le gainage de ce câble très robuste, sa section de câble épaisse, sa puce ASM1153E supportant VRAIMENT l'UASP et le TRIM (c'est-à-dire qu'en lourde charge, l'UASP ne va pas décrocher, aucune perte de tension, et le TRIM sauve votre disque sur la durée), vous en aurez pour votre argent. Mon RasPi et son OS crashaient régulièrement avec les câbles chinois, ici aucun problème. L'USB 3.0 est réel (40 MB/s Ali vs 250 MB/s StarTech), pas de mise en veille automatique de la puce car elle chauffe beaucoup moins, ... bref, foncez.