StarTech.com 2.5-Inch Silver USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure for SATA HDD (SAT2510U2) - Silver
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Customer Review: Works very well, but...
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased this to back up my Dell Inspiron laptop hard drive after Windows crashed. Set-up was easy and everything was provided, making back-up to my desktop a breeze. I had it running for a couple hours and it never got hot, nor did I run into any glitches. It worked perfectly. Only problem was with the case, it wasn't long enough to fit over the laptop hard drive. I could slide it over almost all the way, but just not far enough to screw it to the head. For the use I needed, it didn't matter. However, if you are wanting to use it as an extra external drive that could be an issue.Customer Review: Absolutely Useless
Summary: 1 Stars
I hate this product. The harddisk doesnt fit in the enclosure and it's taking me forever to push it in and I am scared that I might damage my harddisk in the process. I checked the connection which work perfectly, which means that this enclosure is meant for my laptop harddrive and I didn't purchase a wrong enclosure but the enclosure is useless if it can't hold my harddrive. I could have connected the Harddrive in many ways through USB if I wanted to but what I wanted was an enclosure that would protect my harddrive and this one fails to provide that. DONT BUY THIS PIECE OF JUNKCustomer Review: Doesn't like my Macbook Pro's USB ports
Summary: 2 Stars
After using it for a few hours, the drive icon disappeared from my desktop. After some testing, I found that my left-side USB port was not working for the drive or any other device. I moved the drive to my right-side USB port, and the same pattern occurred - the USB port ceased working. Reboot did not solve the issue. Running Apple Hardware Test showed no problems, but after running it, the ports began working again. I am now afraid to plug this directly into my computer again, and it needs more power than my USB hub can deliver - it's essentially of no use to me at this time.Customer Review: Good for price but not the best
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this enclosure so I could clone my hard drive on my laptop to the 250gb WD 2.5 inch sata hard drive I bought. This enclosure is good for such things and now it holds my old hard drive which I use as a backup. Sometimes the enclosure wont work, I would have to unplug it and plug it in back onto my laptop until the hard drive was picked up. other than that its an ok product, transfer speeds aren't that bad and this is a good item so it can store your hard drive as a back-up and I wouldn't recommend traveling around with it since it doesn't look very road durable.Customer Review: Very thin and light
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this for a spare SATA 2.5" drive I had laying around. Putting the drive in was a breeze though I did have some problems putting the securing screws in. I don't know if the drive was not lined-up properly but I had to force the screws in (they went in of course). It DOES come with the world's tiniest screwdriver...haha.
Also, most compact external drives I've used require you to plug into 2 USB ports (one for data transmission and one for power) but I only plugged this into one USB port....I formatted the drive and copied data onto it.