StarTech.com 2.5in USB 3.0 SSD SATA Hard Drive Enclosure - Storage enclosure with power indicator - 2.5" - SATA 3Gb/s - 3 Gbit/s - USB 3.0 - black (SAT2510BU32)

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Pros

Very easy to install drive. Comes with screws and a little screwdriver.

Usb 3 enclosure with uasp is great. Works well for mu 2. Good speed, no stutters, and no issues with connectivity or reliability. Great speeds on a rmbp and samsung evo 850.

There is no power switch and once plugged in, it powers on and connects in a plug and play protocol. One caveat. The special usb 3. Y-cable (usb 3. Is required to connect.

For $20 it offers great performance and portability. This is a kind of flimsy cheap plastic enclosure that works. One complaint is that it seems really cheap -- it's just a shiny black plastic tray.

I carry it around in my back pack, daily, nestled in a pocket, and it's fine. It gets hot but i think that's the nature of hard drives. My one gripe for this $20 or so enclosure is it is made of thin plastic.

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Quality

Specifically, i'm using it to stream audio samples into a software sampler, so it's a lot of files being accessed in concert qu... Read More

This is my fourth version from them and i have been quite impressed by the manufacturing quality of these products.

My real concern with this device is the quality of the plastic enclosure - i’m not sure it’s going to make it through the long haul.

Nothing crazy, but this is just an older 5400rpm hitachi laptop drive i removed from an old mac and formatted as ntfs and i'm h... Read More

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With no moving internal parts, it is less likely to mess up, and it is fast.

And with this enclosure, the wd hard drive is hitting read/write speeds that are almost as fast as the sandisk extreme.

It's not nearly sata iii fast (since it's not a sata iii drive), but fast.

Packaging/appearance

I haven't had any problems except for bad cables out of the box for a couple of the startech.

Installing the kingston ssd inside the startech enclosure was extremely easy and from there it was just plug and play.

Competitiveness

Great speeds on a rmbp and samsung evo 850.

You get much better speeds out of it than a regular usb 3 enclosure (close to, if not, sata ssds top speeds of 500ish mb/s).

I did a crystaldiskmark test and saw a sequential read speed of 117.

Update (-1 star):the usb cable connection, after much use, is always dropping due to a design issue on the connector inside the case.

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plastic, great, easy, good and fit.

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This product had a total of 225 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 17 2022.