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

Just received it yesterday and put it to use with our 2011 MacBook Pro. It is well built, and came packaged nicely. It operates as advertised. It can be a little difficult to get the cover, but the 2.5 hard disk installed easily. The USB 3.0 (type A) connector is backward compatible to the USB 2.0 on our MacBook Pro, but the connection is slow because the USB 2.0 is slow. The Ugreen hard disk enclosure appears to be a good value for its price. I will likely buy another one if needed.

I have bought a handful of these over the years and they all work flawlessly. The tool less design is simple and the enclosure feels sturdy when closed. Has recognized all the drives I have tried inside both SSD and HDD, and the transfer speeds seem stable. I have since tried some other UGREEN products too and they have all been solid choices as well.

This adapter is amazing! It's made of plastic but feels really strong and closes securely. The USB 3.0 is fast and works perfectly. I'm very happy with it; I revived the 2.5" HDD from my old laptop. I was torn between the aluminum ones and this one, but for $7, this is definitely worth it. If you're going to spend $25 on the aluminum one, just buy a new HDD.

Bought this UGREEN 2.5" Hard Drive Enclosure to repurpose a 1TB SSD from an old laptop, and it works exactly as expected. Setup was easy, and it runs smoothly as a backup drive. Pros: ✅ Easy to Use: Just pop in the drive and plug it in. ✅ Good Performance: USB 3.0 speeds work well with SSDs. ✅ Great for Repurposing Old Drives: Turned my laptop SSD into a backup drive with no issues. Cons: ❌ Plastic Housing Feels Flimsy: It’s lightweight, but I wouldn’t want to drop it. Final Thoughts: If you need a simple and affordable enclosure for an SSD or HDD, this gets the job done. Just don’t expect a super sturdy case. Great for backups or repurposing old drives! 🔄💾

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

Great Item. I have purchased two of these and they work flawlessly with some old spare 2.5" HDD I have.

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.

Works great. I have installed my PNY c900 ssd 500gb to my Xbox.