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, but not great.
Summary: 3 Stars
after my Laptop physically broke in half I decided to switch to a desktop for price and power reasons, the only way to retrieve data was to use an adapter because my laptop was completely broken. after about 5 minutes of fiddling I decided that the hard drive would never fit inside the case and so I am forced to use it just as a plug on the end of the hard drive, this might help with cooling issues but is definitely more susceptible to damage. if only the case was slightly wider or had square sides instead of round it would have been perfect.Customer Review: I love it!
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently bought a 40gb PS3 and replaced the hard drive with a 250gb one. I bought this to use the 40gb hard drive as an external hard drive. Works great. Setup is easy, just insert the hard drive and snap on the top. I even used it to transfer 10gb worth of music over to the PS3 in the time it would have taken to rip one CD. Best part is you don't need an external power supply so it's really portable. Fits in the palm of your hand. I use it for storing raw tracks when recording now. Definitely worth the price.Customer Review: Good product at a reasonable price
Summary: 5 Stars
I had a Toshiba laptop that died from a fried motherboard and I needed to recover the content on the hard drive. I popped the drive into this enclosure in about 5 minutes with the enclosed tool and screws. It doesn't even need external power since it draws from a single usb port. I plugged it into my other laptop and it reads the disk no problem. This product saved 100's of photos and other important documents for me and has enabled me to have a portable hard drive for backup purposes. I'm very happy with it.Customer Review: fast but small
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this external case to use it with a 200GB laptop disk, the problem? the enclosure is small (thin) and I can not insert the disk in it, I can still use the disk connecting only the electronic piece to it (the top cover with the USB connection) So, if you have a big capacity laptop hard drive and it is a little "FAT" DO NOT buy this enclosure.
On the other hand the disk performs very well with this unit. I transfered to it 10.5GB in like 7 minutes.
Hope it helps, Carlos.
Customer Review: Quick, simple and it works
Summary: 4 Stars
I installed my 160GB 7200RPM laptop drive into the case.
Very easy to install the SATA drive into the enclosure. Only challenging part was the TINY screws you have to use to seal the case. Luckily, they give you a small screwdriver that is magnetized.
It definitely runs hot if you use it for more than 30 minutes. Requires two USB ports to attach it to your computer.
On Windows 7, there were no problems.
No regrets.