SABRENT SATA to USB, SATA Cable Hard Drive Reader, Super fast Data transfer, 2.5" Hard drive Universal Compatibly (EC-SSHD)

I purchased this so I could essentially backup/restore 2.5" SATA hard disks. It was especially useful for upgrading one of the harddisks on my laptop which fortunately had a USB 3 port to gain the massive performance benefits to be had. When the product arrived I was quite pleased at the overall look of of the packaging and the product itself. I've not seen many products where the cable is coiled up into a foam insert but they have done that here and it actually looks quite cool. It's a nice touch and clearly more expensive to manufacture than just shipping it coiled up and thrown in a brown box or stuffed in a clear plastic bag, The USB to SATA adapter itself seems quite well made and will hopefully last a while. It's not something that I will use every day - more likely once every so often so it will live in my PC spares box until it services are required again! Some users may be quite happy permanently attaching it to their PC or laptop with an SSD attached, especially if they haven't got the physical space in their system. The device was completely plug and play in Windows 10 and no additional driver software was required. It really was as simple as plugging in a USB memory stick and the partitions on the drive were detected straight away. I performed a couple of benchmarks with this adapter and was incredibly impressed with the results. A 7200K RPM HGST hard disk was nearly as quick as it is when connected to the SATA port in the laptop, reaching 134 MB/s read which is less than 10 MB/s less than direct SATA (the 4K values were roughly the same, although marginally less). When connecting up a Samsung EVO 860 1TB I was pretty much blown away by the adapter's performance for a USB device. Admittedly it's about 100 MB/s slower than when connected directly to a SATA port but at up to 448 MB/s it is nearing the bandwidth limit of USB 3 and is very impressive indeed. I also tested the Samsung EVO 860 1TB using a USB 2.0 port and it's clear that this USB adapter is maxing out that type of port. For the price this is an absolute bargain and offers incredible performance on both USB 2 and USB 3. If you're the sort of person that ever upgrades laptops then you definitely need this product in your arsenal. PC users will probably just plug a new drive into their PC to clone it but if you have no SATA ports left then this is the perfect solution. Very impressed with the product. I hope it does me proud again the next time I get it out the spares box!

Excellent, works perfectly

I tried this with a 2.5" SSD and it works just fine. The box and manual also says that it can be used with 2.5" hard disk drives, these are the small form-factor hard drives that one finds commonly fitted in laptops. I don't have such a drive so can't comment but the instructions are very clear that it can manage such 2.5" hard disk drives. However, the manual that comes with the kit slightly confuses the issue with its wording. The instructions say the following regarding drives (I have quoted and retained the way the wording is presented in the manual): 'Note: This adapter cable will only work with 2.5" hard drives, and solid state drives. 3.5" Hard drives and optical drives require a high power load than can be provided via the USB bus.' The problem with that information is in part to do with the way it is printed in the manual and also with the way it is worded (which strictly speaking is in lousy grammar), which doesn't guarantee that the important point will get across to the user. It should be printed and worded as follows: 'Note: This adapter cable will only work with 2.5" hard drives and solid state drives. 3.5" hard drives and optical drives require a higher power load than can be provided via the USB bus. If you attempt to use this adapter cable with 3.5" drives you risk doing real damage to your computer and/or your 3.5" drive.' Look for the Amazon review of this adapter cable by 'g m.' titled 'THIS BLEW UP MY USB PORTS!!!' I can't know for sure but my guess is that 'g m.' tried to use the cable to attach a 3.5" drive to his USB port and blew the whole USB system on his laptop. If I'm right about that it would prove the manual needs rewording a bit. It also proves that this cable shouldn't be left in the reach of kids with a 3.5" drive they want to attach to the computer. You have now been warned! In all, good simple piece of kit that does the job it says, I would recommend it. Actually I would give it 5 stars but the deficit in the manual loses Sabrent one star. Sort out the manual Sabrent!

This data transfer cable works very well, and the free Acronis True Image software for Sabrent produced a perfect Drive C clone. Using the free software, and a larger drive, I was able to extend the clone’s capacity.

Worked well, was able to transfer data from 256GB SSD in laptop to new 1TB SDD connection to cable. Free software was not clear on how to download or use, ended up using a different free software.

WOW, I was very surprised with this item, My older cable I used was going to take 3+ Hours to copy a 93.6 GB file to another drive but using this cable it took just less that 5 minutes to copy the same file to the other drive. It works a treat I only have one word for it.... BRILLIANT.

I have a mini-pc, it only has room for one M3 SSD inside. I have an external SSD as an extension drive for data storage, downloads and photographs. Acronis True Image, which is what I use for backing up in order to restore my system, took an hour to write a 19gb file to it, so I partitioned the o/s drive and used that. But I still needed to store the image off the PC, and not on the D drive which works hard. This connector was the answer. Attached to a 64gb Kingston SSD, beautifully neat and tidy connection it is too, it simply plugs and plays (once the SSD was initialised and partitioned of course). It has a blue LED which continuously flashes regardless of an SSD being connected or not, which is odd, but it took just 2 minutes to copy the True Image image to it, and now it is a safe restore option. Windows shows it as a Sabrent connection as opposed to the Kingston drive it is connected to, but that constantly flashing LED made me decide not to leave it attached unless it's being used. But it works for me, does what I want, full USB 3 speeds and neatly coils away in a beautifully crafted foam storage box when not being used. For £10 - an absolute bargain.

Item as described. Works well. Very pleased. .