Sabrent Hard Drive Enclosure, Lightning Fast Transfer Speeds, SATA to USB Ha...

This is an enclosure to take a 3.5" HDD and allow it to be connected via USB. The drive has a 12V DC centre-positive barrel jack to power it, and connects via a USB Type-B connector. Whilst Type-B is pretty uncommon, a Sabrent-branded USB-B male to USB-A male cable is included, and it feels like an extremely high-quality cable. The enclosure itself is made of metal, and it's pretty thick too - the entire thing feels very strong and sturdy. There are holes in the back of the device, however there is so little room around a 3.5" HDD that airflow is going to be basically non-existent anyway. The metal design does make the device better for heat dissipation than other enclosures I have used though. Getting a HDD in might look difficult as there's not too much room, however I found it very easy to get my drive in, and I didn't feel like I was doing anything that could damage my drive at all. The enclosure also has four four screw holes in its sides so that you can screw in the HDD to keep it fixed in place, and screws and a small screwdriver are included with the drive - Note that the enclosure includes four screws of both 6-32 UNC and M3. This is fantastic, as I really dislike enclosures where the drive can rattle around inside the enclosure, as that can weaken or break the SATA connectors - that can't happen here, the Sabrent enclosure holds the drive perfectly. There is also a dedicated power switch on the end of the device next to the power input, which is fantastic. I really like this, as you can push it into somewhere such that only the end is accessible, or stack several enclosures on top of each other, and still have full control. There is a button on the top of the device that has what looks to be a power symbol on it, but it isn't a power button. Instead pushing that is what allows you to slide the top cover off and open the enclosure. I feel a better symbol could have been chosen, but once you know what it does it's fine, and since the drive inside is screwed in it's not like it can fall out when you take the cover off or anything. Since I was using a mechanical hard drive, I wasn't able to max out the USB 3.0 connection, but the enclosure was able to keep up with HDD doing 200MB/s for the 43 hours it took me to do a full write+read cycle on the drive I had inside. The enclosure did get very hot during this time, hotter than my other enclosures, but that's obviously good - it's better the enclosure gets hot because it's actually dissipating heat from the drive inside and keeping it cool, rather than the enclosure staying cool because the drive inside it can't dissipate heat and thus the drive gets extremely hot. The enclosure does have an LED activity light, which will blink constantly if the drive is active. I personally found this to be quite annoying, and would prefer a constant light rather than a blinking one. I would like to see versions of this with a USB-A and USB-C connector rather than the uncommon USB-B, but other than the blinking activity LED and the poor choice of symbol on the enclosure opening button, I really can't find any faults with it. Overall, I paid £31 for this enclosure, which is a lot for a HDD enclosure, but as far as enclosures go it's basically perfect.

I am very pleased with the purchase. The 3.5" HDD fits easily into the small, metal enclosure. It looks good and is smaller than my other HDD enclosure. It is nice to know that it would also be suitable for a 2.5" SSD (at a later date). I wanted a HDD for my new PC which only had a SSD drive. I did not want to open up the PC to add the drive internally (yet) as this could invalidate the warranty.

My only bugbear with it is that the AC adapter obscures a parallel socket on my multiway.

Great item, works well. Had problems with other 3.5” HDD cases which fail after a couple of weeks. The installation of the drive is fairly straight forward, my only gripes with it are the LED indicator is a button which secures the drive carriage in the metal housing still leaves the drive carriage loose, also it doesn’t have any feet to stop it sliding off the table / desk, I ended up getting a pack from Amazon. The speed of the drive is fairly good (max=196Gb/s). Only time will tell how it performs and how reliable the case is.

I bought this to house a Seagate BarraCuda 8TB HDD for use as an external backup for a dual-boot tower PC running Kubuntu 24.04 and Windows 11. It works flawlessly in both OSes with the drive formatted to NTFS. The case does get warm, but I'm taking this as a good sign that the aluminium casing is "sucking" heat away from the HDD to be dissipated externally. I'll report back if I have any problems, but so far I'm very happy with it.

Used to house an old 1TB drive for backups. Simple to install the drive and set up. Simple to use. Goes to sleep when not used to save power and reduce noise. Seems well made and not plastic but metal.

This is a very neat and cost-effective way to access an old laptop hard disk. Very nicely put together and good value.

Works perfectly, fast enough for what I use it for (backing up documents and other such files) just remember you actually need to by a HDD cause this is an external casing, my HDD fit perfectly in it, its a size which you probably wouldnt carry about with you on a trip but you could.

Mi experiencia de uso He instalado un disco duro en esta carcasa de Sabrent y el resultado es excelente. Lo primero que destacaría es que está fabricada en aluminio, lo cual no es solo por estética; se nota que ayuda a transmitir y disipar mucho mejor el calor del disco cuando llevas un rato transfiriendo archivos grandes. La instalación es muy cómoda. El disco encaja perfectamente sin necesidad de herramientas, aunque el paquete incluye un kit de fijación por si quieres dejar el disco totalmente inmóvil dentro, lo cual me parece un detalle de calidad. La conexión con el ordenador es inmediata y las velocidades de transferencia son muy buenas, aprovechando bien el puerto USB 3.0. Un punto que agradezco mucho es la función de "auto-sleep". Cuando dejas de usar el disco por un rato, la carcasa entra en modo reposo automáticamente. Esto es genial para no tener el disco girando y desgastándose sin necesidad si te olvidas de desconectarlo. Pros: Cuerpo de aluminio que mantiene el disco fresco. Montaje muy sencillo pero seguro. Función de reposo automático para alargar la vida del disco. Buena velocidad de transferencia. Contras: El cable que incluye es algo rígido, lo que puede hacer que la carcasa se mueva un poco en el escritorio si no tienes mucho espacio. Veredicto: Una compra totalmente recomendada si buscas una carcasa resistente y fiable. Por el precio que tiene, la calidad del aluminio y el buen funcionamiento de la conexión la hacen destacar sobre las de plástico barato.

Agréablement surpris par la qualité de l'article. Ayant tester plusieurs boitiers hhd externe, celui-ci est vraiment de qualité supérieure et est très bien conçu. Possibilité de visser son disque dur au boitier et bien sûr le bouton de fermeture du boitier qui a fait que j'ai acheté cet article. Chargeur de qualité, idem pour les cables, support plastique dans un boitier aluminium (excellent contre l'électricté statique et le refroidissement). Reçu 2 jours après ma commande. Que du bon pour cet article, merci.

The product works very well & is easy to use. I had a problem using one particular drive on my Windows system & sent a query to Sabrent's technical support. I got an answer within a few hours that told me what the issue was (the drive had been formatted under Linux) and how to fix it. I thoroughly recommend this device!

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Excellent hard drive enclosure. I used this to house a WD Green 3T hard disk that I rescued from a failed WD My Book. The drive was easy to install and works perfectly. This was the perfect solution to save a good disk trapped in a failed backup device. Highly recommended. Definitely recommend to a friend.