SABRENT SATA to USB Cable - USB 3.0 to 2.5” SATA I/II/III Hard Drive Adapter - External Converter for SSD/HDD Data Transfer (EC-SSHD)

Disclaimer, this product didn't actually work for me, but I am rating it 5 stars anyway due to the after sales support from Sabrent. I purchased this product to read 4 sn200 u.2 drives I purchased to verify functionality before being placed in a server. If you know about older u.2 tech like the sn200, you will know that these things are insanely power hungry for a drive, consuming over 25watta on startup/run. This product did not work for me because of that, the included adapter can do a max of 24 watts. I contacted Sabrent who immediately opened a case and investigated, we are actually still working back and forth but the experience has been nothing short of incredible... Their techs worked with me and still are months later, they agreed with the issue and are in the process of creating a new product to solve this VERY specific issue even going as far as to purchase drives of their own for internal testing as they did not want to possibly damage mine when I offered them for testing. Sabrent has earned a lifelong customer out of me with this one interaction. Absolutely and seriously impressed..I did confirm functionality with data drives which was nice and the adapter itself is streamlines and smaller than others I've owned. The fast USB connection is nice too. As I said, I'd highly recommend this product even though it technically didn't work for me because of how great Sabrent has been. If you drive draws more than 24w on boot, I would also recommend to wait for the updated version to show up on the market.

Good new is the product works. Bad news is it took me an hour to figure out why it wasn't working. It technically explains in the manual to "Only install the drive when the power is off and the USB cable is disconnected" but doesn't make it clear how to get windows to see the drive (especially for larger drives). I was able to get it to work by connecting the HDD to the adapter first, connect the external power to the adapter, and only then connecting the USB to the computer once the drive had spun up and been running for a minute, and windows finally saw the drive. The issue is that windows doesn't see the device as a USB "device" it sees it as a hard drive. So in order for the adapter to have the hard drive's information it needs time for the drive to spin up connected to the adapter before being plugged into windows. Clearer directions in the manual would be nice but for anyone thinking their drive or adapter is broken, specifically for 3.5" drives.

Needed to speed up my wife’s computer that was taking 15 minutes to boot and become usable every time she worked from home. Purchased a 1 terabyte SSD SATA drive and this SATA cable. Used a free disk utility to mirror the old drive worked great, took 3.5 hours to copy old disk to the new SSD. Used a USB port this process is very easy.

Back in my computer technician days at a big box store, one of the most requested services was transferring or backing up data from one form of storage (IDE/PATA Hard Disk Drive to SATA Hard Disk Drive / SSDs). We would use a device like this in order to do that work.I recently upgraded my computer's storage devices and needed a way to get the data off. I have another device adapter made by a different manufacturer which for whatever reason I could not get any of my SSDs to be recognized when plugged. I saw this and ordered one. When it came it the next day I plugged up each of my SSDs - instantly recognized - I was able to grab all of my data.Pros:Inexpensive - under 10.00Free Acronis True Image software (do a search for acronis true image software for sabrent)Cons:NoneNote: This will not connect to PATA / IDE or M2 SSDs (again it is not designed nor advertised to do so)

Arrived fast but can't try it out until the drives get here

Works great. Easy to clone existing hard drive by plugging new one in using this adapter connected to a USB port. Then, after removing original failing drive, I took it out of PC, then used this adapter, which plugs into the USB port, to sanitize/wipe the old hard drive. Very pleased. Works with SATA port hard drives.

Liked it so much, bought another. Works seemlessly, long enough cable that I do not have to keep the drive 2 inches from my laptop. Excellent quality and price is perfect.

This cable has worked very well for me, and is compatible with every version of Windows I have tested, which has been XP up to 11. The read/write speeds are very fast, especially on USB 3 and it seems pretty solid as far as build quality goes.