Sabrent USB 3.0 to 2.5" SSD/SATA External Hard Drive Aluminum Enclosure, Black (EC-UK30)

Pros: USB 3.0 5Gbps speed. Firmware upgradeable. No power supply needed. USB powered! Works with mechanical and SSDs drives. Nice case. UASP support. Seems to work with Linux (Parted Magic sees it).

Cons: Not really a con but more colors than black or silver would be nice.

Overall Review: I've read reviews complaining about this drive having issues but I bet the users don't know to upgrade the firmware to at least version 1.0.0.6 before using. I get it, the average user wants to plug and go. But being firmware upgradeable means future drives will be supported and bugs get fixed. The vast majority of cases like this cannot do that. And for the price, you can't complain. Sweet little USB powered case for using as a back-up or external storage and speedy USB 3.0 5Gbps is a major plus. Although the manual doesn't say Linux is supported, Parted Magic (Linux) didn't have any issue seeing a 500GB SATA drive attached to it. I'd buy this again in a heartbeat.

Pros: - Bought one of these over a year ago, works and holds up well. Comes with a leatherette style cover to protect the aluminium case, though it will get chewed up easy depending on how you handle your portable drives - Works at full 3.0 USB speeds quite well. No bottlenecking - Windows 7, 8.1, 10, Linux Mint 19.1, Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 tested and working just fine straight out of the box

Cons: - None

Overall Review: - Uses phillips head screws only, but they're small. The phillips head screw drivers in glasses repair kits are great for this - BitLocker full drive encryption works just fine - SMART status comes through without issue - It's a simple SATA to USB 3.0 enclosure. The interposer doesn't do anything funky or reduce the performance in any way. It just works - Used this enclosure with a WD Blue 1TB SSD EDIT: Got another one for a 256g Silicon Power SSD to use as a USB flash drive replacement for installers. Love these enclosures

Pros: Sturdy aluminum construction. Cable is longer than other external drive enclosure I have. Fast.

Cons: Didn't work initially.

Overall Review: The device wouldn't work when I tried it with my desktop computer. It did work in several laptop computers though. After a good bit of trial and error with the desktop computer, without any success, I finally went to Sabrent's web site and found that there was a firmware update available for it. After updating the firmware, it works fine.

Pros: Nice brushed high-grade aluminum with blue activity light. Comes with miniature Phillips screwdriver and high-quality 30-inch long white USB-3 cable. I had my 2.5 inch WD Black 1TB hard drive installed in 3 minutes. Best external case I've ever purchased.

Cons: Absolutely none. Case screws and miniature Phillips screwdriver were thoughtfully shipped in a small ziploc bag.

Pros: Great price, simple design, I had it set up in less than a minute. Smart looking design and it comes with a leatherette pouch for protection. I may be getting more of these.

Cons: There’s nothing really wrong with this, except for the USB “a” style Jack on the box. This box requires a USB cable that has the “A“ connection on both sides, which may be difficult to find A replacement for. It would be a better design to use a micro USB cable with the attached power. But this works and it works well.

Overall Review: The device and the attached cable has the ability to transfer USB 3.x, sometimes enclosures like this will only do USB 2.0. Which makes this enclosure all the more useful.

Pros: - good Quality feel from. Aluminum Case - works well - worms as advertised - Linda was amazing with the shipping

Cons: None.

Overall Review: Would definitely buy here again. Mine was shipped from Bailink Dream

Pros: good product

Cons: .

Pros: I bought 2 of these, awesome performance, USB 3.0 is super fast!

Cons: Wish it had more felt/padding so the hard drive wouldn't rattle around in the enclosure.

Overall Review: I would still recommend this enclosure despite the one con it has in my opinion. You can't beat the performance for the price.