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

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.

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!

This little adapter is an excellent addition to my IT toolkit and makes life so much simpler.Previous I would have to mess about getting my docking station out the draw, connecting it up to the PC then getting under the desk to plug it into the mains, I still have to do that with a handful of 3.5 drives but 99% of my storage is on 2.5 SSD/HDD.This is a really handy piece of kit to have for cloning drives if I am installing a new drive on someone's system or even my own I can just get this out and plug it straight into the Sata connector and USB port on the PC and I am ready to go in less than 30 seconds. The same goes for old drives I have kept as backups that I have previously used in a system, the days of using a docking station or enclosure have long gone, if I need to copy some old files across I am literally ready to go in seconds.I would strongly advise paying a little bit extra and going for something like this. Sabrent is a well known and established brand with quality products. I also use the Sabrent Sata cables and 3.5 to 2.5 adapter cradles in my systems to fit two SSD into a 3.5 slot. I've used this brand for years and never had any problems with any of their products and would highly recommend them if you are looking for some decent kit.