UGREEN 2.5" Hard Drive Enclosure USB 3.0 to SATA III Adapter Supports 2.5 Inch SSD & HDD 9.5mm 7mm External Hard Drive Enclosure with UASP Compatible with WD Seagate Toshiba Samsung Hitachi - Black

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 HomeDrive installed: KINGSTON SA400S37480G 480GB SCSI Disk Device, 2.5" SATAEnclosure: (this item) UGREEN 2.5" Hard Drive Enclosure USB 3.0 to SATA III for 2.5 Inch SSD & HDD 9.5mm 7mmReview: 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 HomeVersion 10.0.22000 Build 22000System Name *******System Manufacturer LenovoSystem Model 81W0Processor AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx, 2100 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)BIOS Version/Date LENOVO E8CN30WW, 7/28/2021SMBIOS Version 3.1Embedded Controller Version 1.30BIOS Mode UEFIBaseBoard Manufacturer LENOVOBaseBoard Product LNVNB161216BaseBoard Version SDK0J40700WINInstalled Physical Memory (RAM) 20.0 GBTotal Physical Memory 17.9 GBAvailable Physical Memory 8.66 GBTotal Virtual Memory 21.5 GBAvailable Virtual Memory 3.66 GBPage File Space 3.63 GBPage File C:\pagefile.sysDrive D:Description Local Fixed DiskCompressed NoFile System NTFSSize 447.11 GB (480,085,274,624 bytes)Free Space 170.36 GB (182,917,894,144 bytes)Description Disk driveManufacturer (Standard disk drives)Model KINGSTON SA400S37480G SCSI Disk DeviceBytes/Sector 512Media Loaded YesMedia Type External hard disk mediaPartitions 1SCSI Bus 0SCSI Logical Unit 0SCSI Port 1SCSI Target ID 0Sectors/Track 63Size 447.13 GB (480,101,368,320 bytes)Total Cylinders 58,369Total Sectors 937,697,985Total Tracks 14,884,095Tracks/Cylinder 255Partition Disk #1, Partition #0Partition Size 447.11 GB (480,085,278,720 bytes)Partition Starting Offset 16,777,216 bytesDETAILED INFOSFeature support:SMART supported: YesSMART enabled: YesSMART self-test supported: NoSMART error log supported: NoLBA supported: YesIORDY supported: YesCFast supported: NoDMA supported: YesMaximum Multiword DMA mode supported: 2Multiword DMA selected: NoneMaximum UltraDMA mode supported: 6UltraDMA selected: 6Maximum PIO mode supported: 4SATA Compliance: YesNCQ priority information supported: NoUnload while NCQ commands are outstanding supported: NoPhy Event Counters supported: YesReceipt of power management requests supported: NoNCQ feature set supported: YesSoftware Settings Preservation: Supported, EnabledIn-order data delivery: Not supportedInitiating power management: Supported, DisabledDMA Setup auto-activation: Supported, DisabledNon-zero buffer offsets: Not supportedTrusted Computing supported: NoHost Protected Area (HPA) supported: YesRead look-ahead supported: YesRead look-ahead enabled: YesWrite cache supported: YesWrite cache enabled: YesPower management supported: YesSecurity mode supported: YesSecurity mode enabled: NoDevice Configuration Overlay (DCO) supported: No48bit Addressing supported: YesAuto Acoustic Managment (AAM) supported: NoPower-up in Standby (PUIS) supported: NoAdvanced Power Management (APM) supported: YesAdvanced Power Management (APM) enabled: NoCompactFlash Association (CFA) supported: NoGeneral Purpose Logging (GPL) supported: YesStreaming supported: NoMedia card pass through supported: NoExtended power conditions supported: NoExtended status reporting supported: NoWrite-read-verify supported: NoFree-fall control supported: NoTRIM command supported: YesSCT command transport supported: NoNV Cache enabled: NoNV Cache Power Management supported: No

Worked flawlessly. So far anyway. My last one also worked great for about 5 months. I will update in a few months as to the longevity. That said, this one is much sturdier and has decent foam to prevent the drive from moving around. Very happy that my files were saved and accessible. It was plug and play, I am running WIN 11 and no drivers were needed. Just plugged it in and my files came right up.

I swapped out a 2 1/2" Hard Drive and replaced it with a solid state drive on a mac mini not too long ago. The hard drive was just sitting on a shelf and i got sick and tired of looking at it. I purchased this, followed the easy step by step instructions offered by reputable designer, plugged the USB 3.0 cable into the back of the macmini (late 2014 model) and set up the time machine feature in the system i use from time to time. It's mostly the computer my mother uses but it's the only current apple os device i have and it's nice to learn how to use different programs and troubleshoot things on it as I hope to someday use some of my learned PC Tech skills to make a few bucks on the side. Also, the blue LED light on the device is not very bright so it does not disturb normal everyday mac computing and surfing. I would like to see an option of some switch or button on devices like this and other parts of computers that gives the end user an option to turn off the light. But that's just my opinion. I have seen one that's software-based on wireless router firmware where a user can shut off the led lights on the router and on an old Seagate GoFlex ToGo 1TB USB 3.0 external hard drive (again, software based). But from everyday use and the benefit of being able to backup data locally rather that over the cloud is a nice option. Everybody does not like to use cloud services, but I do from time to time. I have an old BackBerry Q10 cell phone that used to be able to run the Microsoft OneDrive / SkyDrive app and it was very handy! It simply gave me an option to backup my photos and videos i took on my phone to the cloud and even incorporated itself into the blackberry 10 file manager - which, in my opinion, is an awesome and perfect basic set of things for the app to do.Anyway, if you are like me and have swapped out a 2 1/2" Hard drive and replaced it with a solid state drive to benefit from the responsiveness and boot up / shut down of a computer and want an option for external storage on the go that's thin, this is one of the many I'd choose to buy again. It's rugged too. With any portable hard drive enclosure, be careful not to be rough and throw the device around or the hard drive may get ruined. The side pocked that's kinda tight is a good spot to put these things in on those laptop carry totes because they sorta grip the enclosure and while you walk around it's pretty much stationary and does not slide all over like it would in a briefcase. A solid state drive would also work well in these enclosures, but I like to use the older parts I remove from computers from time to time and make use for them.I'm not one of those people whom take photos much to show on my reviews, but I have taken a cupule from time to time so i hope you consider the LED brightness a critical part of any purchase you make. Consider buying a 24" HD Display for your everyday computing or for your employees at your small business and the LED indicator is almost blinding or a nuisance or bothersome while creating a Microsoft office document. Not very good. That being said, if you see yourself in that situation, a small piece of black electrical tape will solve the problem - or perhaps that painters masking tape that comes in a few different colors depending on what brand you buy because painters tape is designed to NOT LEAVE THAT STICKY RESIDU behind - I've used it over the winter to seal the crack in a storm door in my basement from a door that needs some better weather-stripping and once the weather warmed up, there was no sticky residue on the door frame nor the storm door and the tape comes in a couple different wideness varieties.

It's plastic and perhaps I wouldn't use except for back up now and then which is exactly what I'm doing. Long term storage. Speed seems fast so this case does what I need and affordable

Thank you SO much! The computer repair shop wanted $165 to transfer my data to a $199 new external hard drive. I bought this enclosure on Amazon for $9.99. Less than 4 minutes and my Seagate 2Tb hard drive is working PERFECTLY in its new enclosure.

Great product.Look simple, nice.Work perfectly.Good price.Will buy again.Will buy nas raid if getting lower price.

Was able to retrieve data from my old XP laptop. Very easy to use. Product serves its purpose well, so a 5 star from me

Pulled the hard drive from my recently-deceased laptop, and this worked great. Drive installation was so simple, popped right in, and my new computer recognized the device immediately. Great value, cheaper than buying a new external HD