SABRENT USB 3.0 mSATA Enclosure

FAST, CHEAP, RELIABLE, What more could you want? REVIEW: Sabrent mSATA to 2.5-Inch SATA III Aluminum Enclosure Adapter (EC-MSSA) SUMMARY: Arrived perfect condition, well packaged, easy to use without instructions, performance was on par with what I expected from my MSATA drive. One note is that the picture show the case screws going into the wrong set of holes. (the screws go on the inside set of holes, not the outside as shown in the picture). It even came with a screwdriver. UNBOXING: (see picture) INITIAL IMPRESSIONS: Perfectly met my expectations for the price. I wanted something cheap and quick and that is what I got. I saw a few horror stories in other reviews, but I’m glad I ignored them. Aluminum case to diffuse any heat (not that I found there was any). PERFORMANCE / EASE OF USE: INITIAL SETUP: My “old” laptop died and I wanted to reuse the 512GB MSATA card that I installed in it a few years ago. Once I had the card out of my laptop, I transferred it to this case. Screwed it down with included screws. Then I added the side screws to the case, and dropped the whole thing into an external USB enclosure I had left over from some drives I shucked for my NAS. Anyway, I plugged it all in, the drive was instantly recognized and I was able to quickly backup any leftover files from my old laptop. My MSATA card by the way is a Samsung EVO 840 MSATA 500GB PERFORMANCE: I was worried about heat, but there was none at all. Performance was close to SATA II speeds over USB 3.1 chassis that I had. I don’t expect any issues long term. Next, I will likely install the drive as a new boot drive in a spare laptop I have. SUMMARY: I would recommend this to anyone who needs a quick way to rescue / reuse and old MSATA card. Especially if they are going to put this into another device. I’m not sure it would hold up on its own as an external drive (without a full case around it).

I bought this because of how pleased I was with a previous Sabrent purchase, the external USB SATA drive housing. The cleverness of the mechanical design was just great - it snapped together trivially with no tools - and electrically it worked seamlessly. This device was the same. I bought this because I had purchased another mSATA to SATA adapter, and it worked fine electrically, but it gave me problems mechanically. It would work loose from time to time and my system would say "no drive present". So I had high expectations for this purchase, and Sabrent did not disappoint. What a thoughtful design. A cloth strap to help pull the clamshells apart. Screws to firmly hold the mSATA drive inside the housing, and a quality, dimensionally correct housing, and more screws to secure the housing shut. No fighting required to get it together, or to get it to mate with my machine. It's exactly the size and shape of a hard drive, and the housing appears to be good quality powder-coated metal. The screws all mate easily with the screw holes. My only slight sadness is that I wish they had included the four screws that affix the drive to its bracket in my machine. Fortunately I had both saved my old screws and was able to find them. Lastly, I turned the machine back on and it just worked. No surprise - it's Sabrent. Keep up the good work, guys!

This little mSATA to USB reader worked well, is built well and shows the finishing touches of a class product. Sabrent included a tiny Phillips screwdriver for disassembling the shell, and included a spring loaded retainer to hold down the opposite end of the mSATA drive from the data/power connector. Extra case screws were also in the package. We have other Sabrent readers for drives and SD cards, all work very well and are very affordable. The only tiny quibble we have is a bit of wiggle room where the USB port attaches to the motherboard where the case has two metal pieces folded over to hold the case on. Some tiny dabs of RTV silicon fixed this problem.

I ordered this device to get access to data on a laptop's disk before e-cycling the laptop. The adapter worked perfectly. The instructions for installing the mSATA card were not correct (they never mentioned that you have to unscrew the end cap on the case), but it did not take long to figure out what you needed to do to install the drive. My computer identified the drive without any problems right after the drive was attached to a USB port. I was able to easily access files on the drive and ultimately format the drive. A nice metal case protects the adapter, but other aspects of the design are not so good. The adapter card is loose within the case and can be heard jiggling around inside when you shake the case.

I had an unbootable SSD in an old laptop. I wanted to format the drive and start over. When I plugged the Sabrent into a functioning desktop computer, I didn't find anything in File Explorer. I tried a few times then searched online to find out what to do if you can't see a drive in File Explorer. I found advice to go to 'Create and Format Hard Disk Partitions.' Once there, I could see an unknown drive the correct size, but couldn't find any menu choices in the Partitions menu which were not greyed-out (unavailable). Right before giving up I found one active menu choice allowing me to delete the main partition on the old SSD in the Sabrent. I deleted it, and then chose 'format'. Then I chose to assign a drive letter. Once these steps were completed, I could see that ssd in File explorer with the drive letter I gave it. I re-installed the SSD into the old laptop and then installed Windows on the ssd. Success. The old Desktop PC never treated the drive in the Sabrent as a USB; it was displayed as a SCSI. I don't care because it worked. The laptop works well now.

Él adaptador es de muy buena calidad, en mí opinión: Ventajas: El case es de metal. Soporta protocolo UASP. Funciona en Distros GNU/Linux. Cable de buena calidad. Tiene manual y desarmador. Desventajas: Solo he notado que se calienta mucho la case al formatear la SSD.

Wie auch für die neueren M.2 SATA SSDs bietet der Hersteller auch für die älteren mSATA SSDs einen guten Adapter. Ebenfalls gut verarbeitet, stabil, tut was es soll und man kann im Bedarfsfall (wenn man sie da hat) Wärmeleitpads zur Wärmeableitung ans Gehäuse auf der SSD platzieren. PS: ja die Gehäuse sind aus Metall und das finde ich sehr gut.

Helps you recover data from the internal SSD of Laptop, whose Motherboard got damaged. Remove SSD from the Old Laptop, insert SSD carefully inside the SSD Enclosure and attach it to a functioning Laptop. Copy data from the SSD to the functioning Laptop.

Good product .Does the job . Bit expensive.

Met die adapter kun je je msata nog ergens anders (dan laptop) voor gebruiken.