3.5 Hard Drive Enclosure, USB 3.0 Internal/External Hard Drive Case Lay-Flat Dock Station for 3.5/2.5 inch SATA HDD Up to 20TB Data Recovery Kit Support UASP with 12V 24W Power Adapter

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!)

Best value external drive container I've ever had. This is lightweight, but durable. Though it lacks a fan, which would make it best overall for both HD types, it does well enough. I have a HD disk in it now. It's been there sitting on top of my tower for over a year. No disk heat stress detected, and I use it primarily for graphic heavy games. Overall: It is compatible with both hard drive types, but best for SSD. The installation is plug-and-play, which is hard to mess up, but I'm positive someone will. The design is mediocre, but the power light may be disturbing for some, so I would suggest covering that with a cloth (just the button), or placing the enclosure out of sight, but with decent ventilation.

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.

I bought this enclosure to erase two NAS drives that I am retiring and preparing to sell. I could do the erasure inside my NAS unit, but for $18 or so, why risk it? It took minutes to set up, with the hardest part being figuring out how to open the plastic case. Popped my drive in and it worked immediately with my Mac. The unit came with 2 foam strips that were not explained in the included instruction sheet. I'm guessing they are for the hard drive. The bottom of the enclosure has 4 rubber feet. The included USB cable is nice, but they should consider throwing in a USB-C adapter. The power adapter works fine as well just note it's a wider wall wart so I had to make some room on my power strip for it.

Timely delivery. Item as described. Performs properly.

This is a nice enclosure, feels really solid getting the cover off and on can be tricky if you are near sighted or have big sausage fingers like me It's speed seems correct for drive using can be used for sata 2.5inch drives if you have a 2.5 to 3.5 adapter or are careful about moving it. I like the extra feature added to power too it to use installed hard drive into enclosure connect usb cord to computer and enclosure connect power to enclosure press button to turn on (it lights up and blinks when being used)

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

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.