SABRENT USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drive Lay-Flat Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD [Support UASP] (EC-DFLT)

Works great. Good for hot-swapping drives. Not hard to setup, and straight forward ease of use.This is a more stable replacement than my old HDD transfer that has multiple connections on a PCB, including a connection for SCSI HDD's, but I no longer have that anymore. This is good if in a pinch and data transfer is not bad.Also good for stress-testing drives, ran I/O to a drive i'll be using for main system, ran a stress test through this no problem using IOmeter, however doing any large file compares the drive will spin down or go idle, because power to the SATA may not be as efficient as being in a rig. Other than that, no biggie, it is a good enclosure for the job :)

I was skeptical about this when I bought it but it seemed worth a try. I was even more skeptical when I opened the box to this “tool-free” item and saw a small screwdriver and bag of screws. However, I placed my drive in the case as directed, plugged it in and turned it on and it worked beautifully. I still don’t know what the screwdriver was for, but I didn’t need it. I don’t know that I will keep this connected to my computer, but it allowed me to copy anything I hadn’t backed up from my old computer when it died.

In the old days I owned a device that you could plug a SATA drive into and connect through a USB connection. With all of the improvements in storage tech since then I was hoping to find just the device built by Sabrent. I works like a charm and the instuctions were super easy. It even includes a spare lock for your digital drive in case you ever lose the existing one. I like this one because it's all self-contained and not subject dust or environmental accidents. High marks for this product and it was one of least expensive of it's type which means it's value exceeded it's cost.

Pros: Easy to put everything together, seems to work well.Cons: Difficult to know if the drive is properly inserted onto the power/data connectors. Has both a power switch AND a power button, must use both in sequence to turn it on. The power button also has a bright white LED that indicates both powered-on and disk-access, so it flashes constantly when in use. The bright flashing light is thoroughly annoying in a dark bedroom when trying to sleep and the only way around it is to put something opaque on top of the enclosure to completely block the LED.

Very easy to use. Straight forward process. Plug and play. Well worth the investment. My Dell desk top completely died and after 1 month of various attempts to reboot the system, I pulled the hard drive and ordered the Sabent in hopes of retrieving photos and documents. (videos online show how to pull a hard drive from a pc very easy) The hard drive slides easily into the dock, I attached the usb cable to my HP desk top, plugged in the power adapter and there it is. As hoped, the drive came up in "This PC" on my HP desk top. I was able to access my albums, photos and docs from the Dell hard drive. Then copy and paste to "new albums" in docs and photos on my HP. Painless. Do not be afraid to try this. If you have created new folders, copied and pasted photos or docs into folders, you can do this. You do not have to be a computer wiz.

This drive is a SATA drive I use apple computers so my 2008 tower became obsolete , no software updates but my logic pro data was still on the SATA drives with the Sabrent USB drives I am able to retrieve the data thru the USB port on my M2pro Mac mini it works like an external drive great price and buy I highly recommend

This thing is awesome! It works like a dream, and for $26 bucks, I have as many Terabytes of storage as I have hard drives lying around. Why would I pay Big Data several thousand $ for storage over a decade when all I have to do is slide a drive into this and I'm off and running? It's literally plug & play. It's fast, and so far, very reliable. I use a third-party piece of software to partition my drives instead of Windows 11 or Mac Sequoia, just because I like the interface better. But, I took 1 TB and 2 TB drives out of retired computers, formatted them to exFAT, and I instantly have 3 TB of external storage I can access from my Windows and Mac machines locally. A friend asked what do I do if the drive fails. With a product like this, make a few of them. A good old 7200 RPM 2TB drive is about $65. So for about $90 bucks you can have storage that will last about 20 years sitting in a desk drawer.