SABRENT SATA to USB, SATA Cable Hard Drive Reader, Super fast Data transfer, Universal Compatibly (EC-SSHD)

I purchased this so I could essentially backup/restore 2.5" SATA hard disks. It was especially useful for upgrading one of the harddisks on my laptop which fortunately had a USB 3 port to gain the massive performance benefits to be had.When the product arrived I was quite pleased at the overall look of of the packaging and the product itself. I've not seen many products where the cable is coiled up into a foam insert but they have done that here and it actually looks quite cool. It's a nice touch and clearly more expensive to manufacture than just shipping it coiled up and thrown in a brown box or stuffed in a clear plastic bag,The USB to SATA adapter itself seems quite well made and will hopefully last a while. It's not something that I will use every day - more likely once every so often so it will live in my PC spares box until it services are required again! Some users may be quite happy permanently attaching it to their PC or laptop with an SSD attached, especially if they haven't got the physical space in their system.The device was completely plug and play in Windows 10 and no additional driver software was required. It really was as simple as plugging in a USB memory stick and the partitions on the drive were detected straight away.I performed a couple of benchmarks with this adapter and was incredibly impressed with the results. A 7200K RPM HGST hard disk was nearly as quick as it is when connected to the SATA port in the laptop, reaching 134 MB/s read which is less than 10 MB/s less than direct SATA (the 4K values were roughly the same, although marginally less). When connecting up a Samsung EVO 860 1TB I was pretty much blown away by the adapter's performance for a USB device. Admittedly it's about 100 MB/s slower than when connected directly to a SATA port but at up to 448 MB/s it is nearing the bandwidth limit of USB 3 and is very impressive indeed. I also tested the Samsung EVO 860 1TB using a USB 2.0 port and it's clear that this USB adapter is maxing out that type of port.For the price this is an absolute bargain and offers incredible performance on both USB 2 and USB 3. If you're the sort of person that ever upgrades laptops then you definitely need this product in your arsenal. PC users will probably just plug a new drive into their PC to clone it but if you have no SATA ports left then this is the perfect solution.Very impressed with the product. I hope it does me proud again the next time I get it out the spares box!

I have a mini-pc, it only has room for one M3 SSD inside. I have an external SSD as an extension drive for data storage, downloads and photographs. Acronis True Image, which is what I use for backing up in order to restore my system, took an hour to write a 19gb file to it, so I partitioned the o/s drive and used that. But I still needed to store the image off the PC, and not on the D drive which works hard. This connector was the answer.Attached to a 64gb Kingston SSD, beautifully neat and tidy connection it is too, it simply plugs and plays (once the SSD was initialised and partitioned of course). It has a blue LED which continuously flashes regardless of an SSD being connected or not, which is odd, but it took just 2 minutes to copy the True Image image to it, and now it is a safe restore option.Windows shows it as a Sabrent connection as opposed to the Kingston drive it is connected to, but that constantly flashing LED made me decide not to leave it attached unless it's being used.But it works for me, does what I want, full USB 3 speeds and neatly coils away in a beautifully crafted foam storage box when not being used. For £10 - an absolute bargain.

Great little device and it works great

Well packaged, good price/value, quick delivery.Works well, though occasionally not detected when plugged into the USB port and needs to have tge PC rebooted with cable connected before it appears.Transfer speeds seem to be quite reasonable.

Works fine with 2.5" Solid State Drive as it says on the packaging.

Good quality cable to connect SATA drives ( SSD or HDD ) to a computer . I managed to clone the old fashioned HDD in my laptop to an SSD in 75 mins ( usb3.0 to SATA , 175 GB data in total , including Windows OS ) . The included free version of Acronis cloning software was a bit slow for my liking , so I used a different software , but that is just personal preference , so overall a very positive experience . I would highly recommend this cable .

In a manner of speaking, this does "come with Acronis" -- you simply have to go to Sabrent's site, download and install it. Having said that, I tried it but for some reason it didn't work for me. Could just be a mistake I made.So I went on Youtube and found two videos. The first was "How to Reset SSD, Hard drive, or USB Drive to factory settings" so I could do that for the SSD I'd bought and messed up with the Acronis software. The second was "How to clone a hard drive - EASY step by step walk-thru!" which includes a link to the free-for-personal use Macrium Reflect edition software. I found this software easier to use and the cloning process went smoothly -- I tested the clone and it worked fine.The device itself is easy to use, and at the price, a bit of a bargain. Maybe you can get Acronis to work, and if so, all well and good. But if you'd like simpler software, search Youtube for the video(s) I've mentioned and try Macrium instead.

Works well. No issues