ORICO USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure for 3.5/2.5 Inch SATA Hard Drives/SSD Up to 20 TB, 3.5'' Tool-Free HDD Enclosure with 12V/2A Power Supply and UASP Acceleration (3588US3)

Used this when I moved from a 2TB HDD to a 2TB SSD and it worked great. Plan to keep using the old drive for backup with this device. No issues worked great right out of the box.

Llegó exactamente el día que decía, me parece robusto y MUY fácil de usar

The WD Purple 3tb HHD fit easily into the enclosure. It turned on with no issue. Windows 11 recognized it right away, initialized and assigned drivers. However, the quick format did not work. I am attempting a full format. There are some technical set up operations that I am not familiar with as a novice. I don't know how to go into the bios and make setting changes, etc. I was hoping this was just plug and play and that Windows could do all the work. I've had to reach out to Orico support to get help formatting my disk. Windows has assigned a drive "D" and says the drive is okay, but I think I need to change something in Windows settings to get it to format. I am not a computer technician, so I wasn't wanting some technical issue right off the bat. I see the pdf instructions, but they are not clear enough for me to follow.The full formatting worked. It took over six hours. My computer has UEFI as default, so that was not needed as a setting change. My USB is 3.0 and it defaults to RAID in the SATA settings. The 3tb must have been too large for the quick format. Every time I buy a new tech device, it's a learning adventure, even something as simple as this device. I am using this with Blue Iris camera security.Update: I'm taking away a star, because support for this product never responded and their phone number is an international number. So, not too sure the product support is dependable.Update: They finally responded to my email 7 days later. Still 4 stars for such a late response.

If you own hdds and ssds this caddy does great job!I use 3.5 in and 2.5 lower power in it.Runs great with both! I own hdd and ssd toaster model which 2 drives at once can be used...I run both giving me 3 slots for drives. They both get along fine but I use usb4 to connect them in harmony haha.

I had a 4TB WD Red Pro placed into this which was then connected to my Pi5 and used to read from a plex server. I had it up for about 4-5 months straight with 0 issues. Only reason I stopped the server was because I was having issues with the sd card corrupted my PiOS installation. Otherwise it served its purpose well.

I purchased this product in hopes of being able to access files off of my five-year-old desktop that died nearly two years ago. Initially, I was hesitant to try this because I thought that the hard drive in the PC had failed and I’d just be wasting money. I was pleasantly surprised by the Orico 3.5” Hard Drive Enclosure.The package comes with a few items inside. You get the enclosure, a power cable, a USB 3.0 cable, an instruction manual in both Chinese and English, and two foam strips. I believe these require external power because of the 3.5” drive. A 2.5” drive in an enclosure does not need external power. The instruction manual is accurate and helpful, but it is for new drives. You do not have to follow this manual if you’re using an old drive from a PC as I was.The build quality of this enclosure is good. The material is a very sturdy plastic and the top of the case is metal, or at least feels like it’s metal. The bottom slides off and clicks into place with ease, but not easy enough that you should fear it sliding off unexpectedly. There is an LED power indicator on the front beside the power button.I took off the side of my old PC and blew out the immense amount of dust it had gathered. I pulled out the 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM drive, blew off the dust that was remaining on it, and slid it into the enclosure. There is extra space on the bottom and left side of the enclosure once the 3.5 drive is in. This worried me because it may become loose; however, Orico provides two foam or foam-like strips with adhesive on the back. I just used one of the two on the bottom and the hard drive did not move inside when I tried to move it.Using the provided cables, I plugged the drive into a socket and one of my USB 3.1 (my PC doesn’t have any 3.0) type A ports. I pressed the power button and the LED indicator came on. I pulled up Windows Explorer and I was shocked. All of my files from my five-year-old desktop were there.I’ve only had this running for 6 hours as of my typing of this review so I cannot speak for long-term use, but if anything changes I will update this.Performance wise I’ve not done any true testing, but I do have some figures to look at. Please keep in mind I am using a five-year-old hard drive that has been sitting for two years. I was transferring all the documents, pictures, music, etc. from the Seagate in the enclosure to the Toshiba HDD in my desktop. During 5-10 GB transfers, I saw transfer speeds of up to 220 MB/s. There was some fluctuation, but I never saw the speed go below 130 MB/s. (Attached is an image of the result from CrystalDiskMark after format completed).Here’s a bit of advice for anyone who may not be too tech savvy and is hoping to do what I did. My drive had both a system partition and data partition since it was the only drive in an old PC. This annoyed me. Also, many folders and files could not be accessed whatsoever because of the security used by Windows. For me, this was fine. I didn’t lose anything that I didn’t already have backed up elsewhere. I could still access my documents, pictures, music, downloads, and could even see what programs I had installed and all their files. I’m currently formatting the drive because of the partitions and the inaccessible/unable to delete files. It isn’t hard and anyone can do it. Lifewire has great guides on how to remove the partitions and format the drive if you don’t already know how to on Windows machines. Make sure you back up all of the files you can/want to keep before you begin the process. Deleting the partitions and formatting the drive permanently deletes all the files on the drive. It takes a while (I’m currently at hour 3 and it’s at 95%), but it is worth it. It deletes the system files you may not be able to delete and frees up that space.I would recommend this product. It was one of the cheaper choices that I saw here on Amazon and it does its job well. I'm happy with it and hope to be happy with it for at least a year.

Good product!!

I bought this for a 3.5" 7200rpm 10tb NAS hard drive and its lack of cooling nearly cooked the drive. After an 18 hour SMART extended self-test the temperature had hit the maximum operating temperature of 65c. This is completely unacceptable and will kill a drive. The design lacks any type of ventilation whatsoever and the thin metal plate mentioned in the description does absolutely nothing but get hot along with the rest of the plastic enclosure as all the heat generated is trapped inside. Even if it worked as a heat sink it's on the side of the drive with the circuit board and will not cool the other side at all.