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.

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Funciona excelente y funcional!

Worked with my internal hdd from a damaged laptop like a charm and read at good speeds too. Great product.

I bought the Sabrent EC-SS31 1.5" SATA hard drive/SSD to USB 3.1 adapter to clone the internal 128GB SATA SSDs on three Dell 9020M Optiplexes to new Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSDs at work. The cable came with a USB-C adapter, which I did not use. The end of the year is always busy for our company. We find out if we can buy new toys, how much we get to spend, and push to get it all in before year-end for taxes. This year forced us from Windows 7 to Windows 10, but did not scream, "new computers". Instead the orders were "make what we have better and longer-lived". Wow. We put these boxes in service in December 2012. I had expected to replace them in 2017 but they've performed flawlessly. We maxed out the onboard RAM at the end of 2018. Now increasing storage was key to make this all work — unfortunately I had zero experience cloning drives. Oh, goody. After extensive research I decided to go with the Samsung 860 EVO 1-TB drives to replace the strained 128GB SSDs in the boxes. Reviews, spec tests, etc., all showed the 860 EVO to be superior in all respects regardless of size and 1-TB should give us ample head room for the next 5-7 years as actual data storage is served by a NAS. The userbenchmark.com site was invaluable for this. Having nailed that down the next step was how to connect the drive. The reviews I read here and elsewhere (including the site above) all indicated there were many makers of cabling, but Sabrent kept popping up over-and-over again as successful, no issues, well made, solid, dependable, etc. Shopping sowed pries all over the map, but the only maker that consistently performed well was Sabrent, regardless of price. That's why I elected Sabrent even though it was definitely not the cheapest. The last piece of the puzzle was the software. This was a real challenge, it seems everyone has their own favorite but they all had horror stories and "fixes" that mostly work — usually by hobbyists and gamers. Accronis was well thought of and available from Sabrent. Samsung also makes software specifically for this purpose that is free for use on their drives. That limits the reviews about Samsung's software, but what reviews existed were rock solid. Once I was done I had budgeted for the drives, the cable, the software as a purchase and three days of project time. I figured each machine would be down for anywhere from 3-8 hours. I was so wrong! The Dell's had 128GB Samsung SATA SSDs in them. The Sabrent cable hooked up perfectly. The free Samsung software was sophisticated, polished, easy, flawless, smooth, and fast. I mean really fast. The first box, which I expected to take 4-5 hours including unattended down time just doing the transfer, took 30-minutes including physically swapping the drives after the transfer was done. The transfer itself took under 10-minutes. The only reason that worked was because the Sabrent cable performed flawlessly.

This is a great little kit, especially because it comes with the USB-A to USB-C adapter, perfect for my laptop and other newer devices that don't have the larger USB-A ports. The cable and adapter worked perfectly with a full 10gbit link established for fast data transfer to my MacBook Pro.