3.5 Hard Drive Enclosure, USB 3.0 Internal/External Hard Drive Case

on my old computer, I have a hard drive with just over 200GB of various saved youtube videos/movies/etc. I removed the Hard drive bay on my new PC, to make more room for cable management/burying. while I could find the thing and put it back in there, I'd also need to run another SATA cable, as my current one is used up via my new PCs built in fan hub, and two SATA SSDs. so, after a little bit of searching, I found this, and I am very pleased. I got this for about 14$ after a coupon + amazon delay delivery coupon. right now, its writing to my sata ssd at about the peak of 160-170MB per second, or just over one gigabit. while the product mentions 5 gigabit speeds, hitting those on a hard drive are basically impossible, so I don't fault the brand for the discrepancy. I am completely pleased with the speeds as it's producing, as I had to take some stuff off this drive before via flash drive. it was not fun. the process to pop out the hard drive bay was a bit finicky at first. it feels like you're gonna break it with how you have to pop open the top latch thing, but it does pop out. installing the drive is as simple as lining up the drive right, pushing it with a little force, then clamping the top over it. by the by, the USB plug is a type b to type A, if you're curious, or ever lose it. all in all, 5 stars. if you ever need to move stuff from an old drive & don't have the extra space/don't care, this is 15$ and it'll save you tons of headache

Works great! I really wish I could get my hands on more. Super easy to set up and use. Cables are nice and long. I haven’t had any durability issues at all, it’s just plug and play and leave in a place. I haven’t had any compatibility issues. It connects once drive loads. I love having a power switch on it so it just doesn’t leave the hard drive running when not needed. I recommend this product!

my 15 yr old laptop finally became unusable, i don't remember why. i loved everything about that old hp. but my great grandson was able to remove the hard drive and save it for me. he put my documents on a thumb drive, but later i realized i had a lot of music and photos that he didn't save for me on a thumb drive. i knew nothing about hard drive enclosures at the time, so i just held on to that drive, figuring i would go later to some computer wizard to access those files. but then i learned about these enclosures, so i decided to take a chance. i wasn't sure whether i should get a 2-1/2" or a 3-1/2" enclosure. this drive was a reasonable price, and it turns out the size is great. it didn't seem to work the first time i plugged it in, but i waited too long to try to return it. tried it again recently, did something right this time that i had not done the first time, and YAY! - I'm able to access all those files again. now that i've figured it out, it works well, it's not noisy, and it's almost like using my old hp. i am very happy with this. (it ain't easy gettin' old with the way technology is advancing these days!)

This item was shipped in a paper envelop. The product box was badly banged up, presumably in shipping, so I did not have high hopes for it working well (if at all). Fortunately, the only issue I had was that I found it extremely hard to open the case to put a hard drive in it. It slides off, but it was difficult to put enough lateral pressure on it to make this happen. So, this is not something I would recommend if you are going to be regularly swapping the drive out. That said, this product worked surprisingly well. It was extremely easy to set up, the button worked like a charm and the USB cable seemed to be of premium qualtiy (though I wished it was a little longer.

This is just dialed, an excellent device to stick in my cabinet plugged into my router to act as network storage.

My drive inserted easily into the case. Plugged it into the computer and was recognized and still works well.

Great product, works as expected, so far working great.

At first this looked like a nice component to save my HDD that had years of data on it and let me access the data while I considered getting a new desktop computer and use my laptop for a while. The transmission rate was reasonable and it was easy to figure out how to place my ard drive inside the case. After putting the assembly together with my hard drive inside I plugged in the supplied cables (usb 3.0 cable) and (DC5.5 mm plug with cable) into the case. Then I connected the cable to the laptop port and plugged in the power adapter to a 110V outlet. Lastly I turned on the device with the Power Switch on the case. Everything seemed to work well. Then a few days later I got a screen message of hard drive failure. I removed the powere adapter and unplugged the usb cable and tried it on another laptop. I got the same message. So after diconnecting power again I opened the case. It seems like the design of the case can allow the hard drive to slide away from the connector partially. In my opinion this caused a power interuption. I DO NOT RECOMMEND using this case. A case that is vertical so that by at least gravity the connection is maintained would be better, such as a StarTech or Inland docking station would be better. Alternatively if the case could be made so that the HDD could be secured from sliding in the case, that might solve the problem. I think I have lost the data - do not use this.