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    StarTech.com USB 3.0 to 2.5” SATA III Hard Drive Adapter Cable w/ UASP – SATA to USB 3.0 Converter for SSD/HDD - Hard Drive Adapter Cable

    • This was a simple solution to easily create a USB3 external hard drive (without the need of an additional power supply.)While there should have been files on the drive, I had to create a partition and format it to use it (so data was lost), not a big deal but beware it might happen to you!
    • Had replaced a MacBooks drive, but needed data from the original drive, and this worked without issue.
    • and I lost zero data
    • Perfect for transferring laptop hard drive data
    • so it took me multiple time to transfer more data and till now it still work
    • This worked perfectly so I could plug it into my current laptop and erase the old data.
    • Was hopeful to recover old data from old hard drives...
    • Cloning drives has never been easier, and grabbing old data is a breeze
    • I bought this for an easy hard drive data swap before installing a new hard drive
    • I was able to recover data from hard drive with a corrupt operating system.
    • Afterwards I left with an exposed SSD card, not the best thing to do with valuable data
    • If you're going to transfer data to another H/D like from a laptop to another SSD this is a must
    • Was able to recover data from bad hard drive.
    • The hard drive was then powered up and the new laptop had no difficulty accessing the data on it.
    • Fast connection, fast data transfer
    • Worked perfectly for transferring all my data and programs from my tired old SATA drive to my new Samsung SSD drive.
    • Very nice for copying a Hard Drive and / or recovering data.
    • The StarTech USB 3.0 to Sata cable arrived on time and worked very well transferring data from a laptop hard drive where the laptop suffered catastrophic failure from a glass of wine.
    • regard a device like this as cheap insurance, since you never know when you'll need to recover some data.
    • I was able to mount and recover data from five different drives and copy to my mac.
    • This came so quickly, and worked like a charm to help me recover data from a hard drive
    • By removing the drive from the laptop and using the USB to Sata cable with another laptop, I was able to recover the important data for a neighbor in a very short period of time.
    • Good quality, fast data transfer to
    • I bought this cable to recover data
    • I bought this product from Amazon because one of my laptops broke, amd I needed to recover the data
    • This was a simple solution to easily create a USB3 external hard drive (without the need of an additional power supply.)While there should have been files on the drive, I had to create a partition and format it to use it (so data was lost), not a big deal but beware it might happen to you!
    • Was able to transfer several SSDs with ease, as well as remove data from my PC and my MacBook Pro.
    • Recently my laptop died and I needed to get the important data off my hard drive
    • Worked great to recover data from a bad hard drive.
    • I constantly use this product to recover data from customer's hard drives when their PC's or laptops have crashed
    • It works as it was expected, allowed an easy and fast data migration and preparation of my SSDs.
    • Worked like a charm to recover data from a soaked laptop.
    • Works great to take an internal hard drive and either recover data from it or convert it to a portable backup drive.
    • This cable has the added benefit over an older USB-SATA cable setup I had, in that it has 2 little led's to indicate data access (like on your computer).I bought this cable at the same time I purchased a new Samsung 500Gb 860 EVO SSD
    • If that happens, the drive that is connected could get corrupted to the point where it may become unusable or at least make it very hard to recover data from it
    • Was able to recover all data from my old laptop
    • This means no SMART data and less-than-optimal transfer speeds.
    • Needed to recover data from a from and this did the trick.
    • Works as it should work...
    • and it had a surge and fried itself and ruined my external hard drive as
    • Works as it is supposed to.
    • Works as it should.
    • Drive adapter works as it should.
    • It worked as it said it would
    • I use this a lot on brand new hard drives to get initial driver files on there as well as on busted up old hard drives to get info off of them.
    • Works as you'd expect
    • The cable works as it should
    • before I bought it I gave the drive to bestbuy to recover as much as they can even 1gb for 100dollar but they fail to recover anything