SABRENTUltra Slim USB 3.0 to 2.5-Inch SATA External Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure [Black] (EC-UK30)

works well. the one i received came with insulating foam over the diodes that were an issue for some reviewers. a few notes if i was being nitpicky:nothing holds my 7mm drive in place vertically save the sata ports. a 9mm spacer also did not fit snugly and would rattle around. horizontally there's thick foam that fits the drive snug.no rubber feet so the enclosure slides around too easily.the drive is inserted from the front/back and not the top/bottom. the latter would have allowed for thermal pads for better heat transfer.

Good looking build quality.based on experience this must have been a one off..... I assume.. Would detach itself randomly.. Installed 2 X Seagate 500Gb (HDD (were perfectly fine before hand and Seagate drives are generally bomb proof). Started noticing a slow and ran a surface test and bad sectors had sectors had developed (same for each drive), access times deteriorated and led flashed randomly.Took both drives out and put back into pc, tested and they were both screwed. Even my BIOS was telling me in one of them drive to fail immenently. Tried low level diskpart, chkdsk on windows PE. That was it both drives had to thrown. Would have more chance if keeping data secure if would have run over the drives with a steam roller.. The claimed free sabrent/ acronis software locks you to using the sabrent drive connected although download the same software direct from acronis and works with anything, (not much of a selling point).. Firmaware link to sabrent web site points to a 0 byte file (although it claims to have thousands of downloads)?!?!?!In a nut shell, I sent it back after trying for a couple of weeks and ruining 2 good hhd's.Very disappointed and cost me!!!Don't need to add anymore you get the gist .... Hence the score.Alex Another really a noying problem I had was the drive in the enclosure COULF NIT BE RECOGISED BY WINDOWS 10, the only way around this is to use a partition manage such as AOMEI and assign drive letters to your external drives because for some reason this caddy makes all your drive letter invisible to the OS (*.) And you need to set to for example (d:) then windows can see your drive, it also caused the same problem to the other drives attached. I had to do this every time I cannected it!!!!!

Once in a while you get hold of a product that surpasses expectations and this device is one of them from my perspective.I had some spare SSDs laying around doing nothing from other upgrades and I decided to take a punt on a Sarbrent USB3 black external device to mount my SSDs externally.Having read other reviews on amazon I realised that quite a lot of the negative reviews were non-tech savvy folks who were either expecting too much from old SSDs or are not getting the performance they expected because of USB3 implementations that don't support UASP (USB attached SCSI protocol).UASP succeeds USB mass storage bulk-only transport (BOT) protocol and has a number of requirements such as:1. OS is at least Windows 82. a motherboard that supports the Intel Platform Controller Hub (PCH) with UASP support (that to complicate matters is a licenced feature so not all motherboard manufacturers implement / enable the feature!).3. not all usb ports are equal as their paths go to hubs on the motherboard that are not all the same technology, some may be labled SS (super speed) for example and others not so. The simplest method is to plug the usb device into a couple of ports until you see the device appear in device manager as a JMicron SCSI Disk Device. If you really want to see if UASP is in use you can then open the properties dialog and click the Details tab. From there select Property -> Device stack and see that '\Driver\UASPStor' is listed. This will show that UASP is in use for this device. Generally if you can see this then you are good to get the maximum speed you can. For me I'm getting a little over 350MB/s sequential I/O reading from an older OCZ Vertex 3 SSD in the Serbrent to a newer Samsung device on the SATA 3 bus. Obviously the OCZ is the limiting factor for me and the device is 100% busy whereas the newer Samsung is only ~40% busy writing the data.Other things to note:* now you're not going to get close to native sata3 (6GB/s speeds) for random I/O although USB3 at full bandwidth will get close for sequential I/O like copying a large movie for example.* I quote windows and Intel above as these are what I have tried myself however I'm sure Linux may have a kernel that supports the feature by now and I'd be surprised if AMD don't have a similar supported implementation on their motherboards. so you'd need to check.Quality aspects:I feel the company has done very well for the price point for the physical quality of this enclosure. It comes in good packaging that's not too wasteful, you get a cloth bag (I guess this could be useful to avoid scratches while travelling) and I really like the compact design - this device is not much more bulky than the SSD itself!Some people complain that the alloy is thin but to me that's the point of having alloy vs plastic isn't it? You get a nice thin compact surround that is plenty strong enough once the SSD is mounted inside. Yes the screws are small and the ends are plastic, and this is a cheap external device so in my opinion the quality good enough for most uses unless you're planning to throw this off a cliff...The device itself is a good quality aluminium (mine is black) and all the cables are good quality. Its also worth noting that the device is bus powered so older laptop spinning disks may draw more power so you want to be careful if you are planning to add a whole bunch of these on an external hub that's not powered.My only gripe is the sticky label that's stuck to the aluminium on the outside of the body. This takes a bit of work to remove and clean. It would be a nicer finish if the company solved this issue or avoided including the small paper coded label entirely (I expect this is for a robotic manufacturing / tracking process but this just spoils the aesthetic for me when the company obviously went through pains getting the look and feel right just to spoil it with a minor detail, anyway I'm nit picking).So that wraps up my review. Hope this is of use to someone. I use an Intel Nuc btw and this is great for adding external silent, quick storage to the Nuc.

I've now bought three or four of these and they work great for that old laptop hard disk that you've got lying around. Stick it into one of these and you've got extra external storage for backups.I have used these for both conventional older 'spinning' hard disk technology and more up to date solid state disks, and both work fine. I've two that I use on my pc, and have also used on a Mac, another that I use on an Xbox. No issues with any of them, and I like that with moderate persuasion, you can slide open the lid without using any tools and swap out the hard disk (unplug from pc first of course).Of equal worth in mentioning is the connecting lead supplied. This is a robust thick data lead and not a cheap flimsy thing that will fail you. In all, I've found these to be excellent value for money and prove to be fast at data transfer between the external disk and pc.

This is a small, strong and classy aluminium enclosure which looks very discrete sitting under the screen.The stand out feature is the usb type A connection socket; I've had many issues with dodgy micro usb plugs that don't make reliable connections so being able to use a USB A to USB A cable is a much more reassuring and it's supplied with the cable which makes the whole package very good value.Also worth a mention is that the activity light is at the back of the housing so you're not faced with Blackpool Illuminations when it's being accessed.I have 4 of them in 2 banks with a small circle to distinguish the drives, I'm not a fan of brightly coloured plastic drives; though they have their uses, I find they're too bright for permanent desktop use.If you'll be swapping drives regularly I'd recommend the Sabrent plastic housing which slides open and is a synch to swap, this housing is more involved to setup, needing a screwdriver to open the case.

I liked the build quality, but if I needed to moan about anything its the fact you have to undo two little screws every time you open the enclosure, they provide you with a little blue mini screwdriver so it's only a minor niggle, you're better off with a tool-free one if you are in a hurry or using it constantly. However it works fine, I have transferred files over to another PC and cloned another drive so far and it's done it perfectly. No issues here whatsoever. Thank you. In the box you get an enclosure, a mini screwdriver, and a nice pouch to put it in. You also get the cable to put into the drive then into a USB port on the PC.