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

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.

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

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! 🔄💾

Worked great to put the old MacBook Pro 2012 HDD in to use as a backup drive!

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.

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.

I purchased this product because it supports the trim function for SSD SATA drives. Very reliable. Supports full 3.1 USB function. Very lightweight, it's a sturdy case. Works as advertised. Works equally as well in Windows and Linux.