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Simple to use, lots of options available for drive transfers

I was a little leery about buying this, having been burned in times past, but I'm happy to report it does exactly what it says: Makes a true SAS hard drive visible via USB. I tested it under Linux (Kubuntu 24.04 LTS), with an old HP 146GB 2.5" drive, and experimented with both wxHexEditor and the standard Linux partition editor. I was able to, with the hex editor, literally step through every sector/byte on the drive and easily alter or search. This is a Great Thing for file recovery and similar disk forensics. As far as the partition editor goes, I was able to create a standard FAT32 partition on the SAS disk and write/read files on it. Was it the fastest thing on the planet? Of course not. You're going through the overhead of a USB port plus the USB-to-SAS bridge circuitry. But it WORKED!

+ Price / Value + Cool Faux-Retro Aesthetic + Great for Stacking / Easy Storage * They may not be designed to stack per se but they do a good enough job (much better than an enclosure with rounded edges) and that is such a huge bonus as it helps me to keep all of my drives organized and less prone to becoming a cluttered mess.