Before I destroy the drives I needed to validate the contents

Worked great just plugged my old hard drive into the cable and cable into the USB port and was able to recover most of my files.

This item does NOT work, Tried it on three hard drives.

you connect it to the hard drive then what.

Got an old hard drive(s) sitting around

The high transfer speed allowed me to transfer 100+GB of data from my old hard drive to my new solid state drive in about 2 hours

Awesome for cloning and transferring hard drives and SSDs rapidly.

I recently swapped out the hard drive in my MacBook Pro for an SSD drive.

so I'm not sure if it's the Xbox, hard drive

Very nice for copying a Hard Drive and / or recovering data.

Recovered data from hard drive taken from my dead laptop.

Had to replace a hard drive, and this worked perfectly!

This adapter, USB2SATAIDE, allowed me to hook my laptop's hard drive straight to a Win7 desktop PC's USB port and run checkdisc on it and fix the corruption.

Worked perfect was finally able to recover some files off of an old hard drive!!

I needed to extract files from a laptop hard drive that failed

Didn't work for completely dead drive but works on good drive so useless for my dead drive

Hard drives with SATA interfaces have not worked with this device, probably because this PC USB interfaces won't provide enough current for the drives

I have a backup hard drive

Desktop hard drives need an external power connection which is not supplied.

I bought this to connect my laptop to a new Samsung solid state drive

Plug and play, I was able to extract files from old hard drives with ease.

The product worked as promised with no effort at all - simply plug your hard drive into the cable, then the cable into a USB port, and it will show up as an external drive

but I just needed to use it to copy my hard drive to a new solid state

Was able to connect to my failing hard drive to retrieve my most of my data

The process went well and my new hard drive was in my laptop in under 3 hours

Work perfectly to allow me to clone the hard drive in a laptop to a solid state drive.

Exactly what I needed to retrieve data from a hard drive from a deceased computer!

Works well to connect a 2.5" hard drive to my Dell Latitude E6520; the drive always shows up each time.

Perfect tool for transferring files from an old hard drive to a new PC.

I use this to transfer data from two old HDD on two computers to each of their solid state drive. excellent!

Works great still cant see my faulty hard drive just need some info on how to

I put all 5 disk in the computer as a slave drive and they are all good drives.

Its simple and loaded my old macbook hard drive to my new drive in no time.

Some have said that 3.5 mm hard drives can only work with electric power and that the smaller 2.5mm drives can work strictly off of usb generated power.

Yes I can put the SSD into a caddy, but my 100% reliable SSD would only be as reliable as that cheap powered board in the external hard drive case

This worked flawlessly when transferring data to replace a laptop hard drive.

great for solid state drives.

Easy to use and already backed up 4 internal hard drives effortlessly

Do make sure to set to designate your primary (not sure if that's the right term) hard drive prior to attaching other drives to your computer.

Works great for laptop hard drives but not for desktop hard drives.

I wanted to sell it, but still had all my info on the hard drive

I didn't confirm the size of my hard drive.

My DV6 HP Laptop died and needed to be replaced, but if the hard drive was still good I needed to get all my files off of it and transfer to my new Laptop

Worked perfect for cloning my old hard drive to my new hard drive

The StarTech USB 3.0 to 2.5 SATA worked surperb when I cloned my old mechanical hard drive to my new solid state hard drive.

I had an old MacBook Pro that was broken and I remove the hard drive from it

Drive isn't readable on mac unless you format as exFat on windows first but works regardless

Allowed me to clone/transfer my hard drive from my MacBook Pro easily onto a new replacement SSD.

If it is for quick switching several hard drives, and protection is not an issue for you, then this is the product for you

Received a couple used laptops and forgot how much I disliked spindle drives

These lights are important especially if using the adapter for starting up computers from an external hard drive.

Able to download hard drives from otherwise dead computers

I certainly was pleased with the ease of using this to mirror a hard drive

But after I did sort it out, it worked for every hard drive I had.

I tried 4 separate known good platter style hard drives without success

Used to wipe my old Mac hard drive

This Worked great to get the files off my dead lap top hard drive.

Connected right up and allowed access to a hard drive recovered from a disabled laptop

Worked perfectly for connecting to my old hard drive

so I could load my games there instead of the slow internal drive of the system.

I ordered this so I could pull data from my dead laptop's hard drive

Not powerful enough to fully operate a hard drive but gets the job done with ssd's.

Doesn't work with traditional HDDs but does work great with solid state hard drives

Very useful product to transfer data from hard drive to hard drive

Works perfect for the external hard drive that the connector was worn out on.

you don't have to buy a case for the hard drive you just connect and go

Just a reminder for other buyers, this only works for laptop hard drives

I was able to get all of the images with sentimental value off, and decided to keep the hard drive itself as a backup just in case something like this happens again

StarTech USB 3.0 to 2.5" SATA III Hard Drive...

This product will not power up the hard drive

Had to cut off some molding to get it to work, but once that was done, the hard drive fit and worked.

After unplugging that piece from the hard drive, I was able to connect the StarTech cable to the hard drive and to my new laptop and was immediately gratified to find that I could retrieve all my data with no problems.

Installed games on a solid state hard drive with this

No protection to the hard drive being plugged toConclusion

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

Bought these to hook up spare hard drives to PS4’s

I bought this to clone a hard drive to an SSD in early 2017

Arrived on time and worked great to clone my Toshiba hard drive to my new Crucial MX300525GB SATA2.5 inch drive

The adapter I purchased came with a power supply to power the desktop hard drive.

This worked fine for migrating from a traditional hard drive to an SSD.

Once connected it took 20-25 minutes to transfer 260GB from hard drive to SSD

Was able to retrieve files off my old laptop hard drive that was failing before I replaced it

Needed to get my files off a good hard drive from a dead laptop

Ordered this connector, took out the hard drive from my Samsung laptop (and had to remove a special adapter that was on the hard drive itself

Just what I needed to get all that legacy data off of older hard drives

Tried a variety of USB ports, computers and some hard drives

It fits the hard drive but it has some

Replaced existing hard drive in less than ten minutes and completely back on line with "no problems whatsoever".

Very good cable for connecting hard drives to desktop

This is a great tool to have if you have a laptop or have a desktop you could use a regular sock a hard drive connected to your computer or your heart or your laptop with

Data transfer rate was great, plug and play my old hard drive into my new clean install

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.

Bought a Firecuda replacement drive for my Thinkpad, downloaded free Macrium Reflect software to clone my existing hard drive.

the 1st it wanted me to initialize the hard drive prior to access

Works great, just plug Sata connector to hard drive, then USB 3.0 into computer of choice

It works w/ Hard Disk and Solid State Drive,

After looking into a few professional services to recover my hard drive and deciding I didn't want to spend $

Fixed my issue with the hard drive

I was able to get all the files off my old laptop hard drive after the motherboard died.

Just connect to hard drive, plug in to any USB in PC or laptop, reboot computer to start from bootable re-image CD (or bootable USB) and just transfer image to new drive

This works perfectly and later on you can use it to connect you old hard drives to usb as a backup storage.

I purchased this as part of a last-ditch effort to extract files from a hard drive that was giving me trouble.

I was able to pass my hard drive files to another laptop.

This saved me on a hard drive replacement

Already used it to verify validity of several hard drives

I then looked and the instructions to see if there was any advice and found that this adaptor does not work with normal hard drives, only the micro sized ones.

So far I've used it with 2.5" and 3.5" IDE hard drives, SATA hard drives, and even IDE optical drives, all of which have worked without issues

Useful little tool for accessing an internal SATA hard drive by plugging it into any USB on your case

Makes it easy to replace the data from an old hard drive to a new one

I also didn't want to buy an external hard drive because you never know the quality of the drives they put in it

Plugged it into a USB3 port and a 960 GB SSD drive and it worked perfectly!

Worked great, I was replacing an old hard drive in my notebook pc and used this cable to copy the partition and all my data from the old one to the new hard drive.

Works with hard drives also

his cord made copying my hard drive to a solid state drive easier

This 2.5" SATA hard drive to USB adaptor was a lifesaver (OK datasaver) when my lap-top decided it had given enough, and died in a puff of smoke.

Worked for 3 months, then the hard drive it was connected to fried, no longer spins, smells of burnt electronics, and is no longer detected by the MacBook

Broken drive isn't broken now.

I only wish I had know about this unit prior to purchasing external hard drives.

This item worked perfectly for cloning my hard drive for my laptop

Bought this originally to tranfer from my old pc to my new pc, but found out it's for the hard drive from a laptop

I'm glad I bothered to order this before replacing my hard drive with a new one as this made it so incredibly easier to clone my existing drive to the new one before physically swapping them

super handy for connecting a hard drive to transfer files, I use mine for my ps3 and xbox 360 mainly

I used it to upgrade a traditional laptop hard drive to SSD.

It allowed me to get the stuff off my hard drives that are over 10 years

Did not work for either of my hard drives

I have not found anything bad to say yet, dang!Other thoughts Find a way to cool down your external hard drive if you are planning on using it continuously for many hours, it can get very hot.

I connected all of the necessary cables in a minute or two and the desk top hard drive appeared on my laptop.

Was able to recover data from bad hard drive.

It will make you think that you have a defective drive,when the cable or enclosure is the problem.

so we thought the either the hard drives were failing or the adapter was failing

Didn’t work with the hard drive

Was required for the hard drive.

The hard drive crashed on my work laptop and I needed to try to get the content off my hard drive before I returned the laptop

Very handy if you want to for example replaced one of hard drive in your computer for new one like SSD

Very useful tool, if you need files moved from a dead hard drive.

2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive - CT525MX300SSD1

This is great if you use a solid state drive and need to carry all that storage with you for mulitable computers thus making it an external hard drive without having to spend the money on an external hard drive.

Otherwise, if you have a 2.5" SATA hard drive, it's perfect!

Works great, allows for easy connection between hard drive and USB port

The one downside is, however, that it does not support the USB Attached SCSI Protocol that allows the external drive to be recognized by the system as a native hard drive

I used it to extract files from the crashed hard drive and then reformatted the pc

works to read hard drive out of computer that doesn't boot up

Enabled me to retrieve my document from my crashed laptops hard drive

Doesn't work, I tested with 4 known good working laptop and 4 known good desktop hard drives

Found my old hard drive and used this cable to find all my old pictures that I completely forgot that I had

I did not need the optional power supply, as this drive worked connected to the cable.

It will not power up my hard drive.

This came so quickly, and worked like a charm to help me recover data from a hard drive

I use them for lap top hard drives and this product works great

Works great on 2.5 Hard drives, just to expect it to power up a 3.5

Removed hard drive and used this to attach to another laptop and copy over the files

I opened the broken computer, took out the hard drive, and recovered all my files

Was able to save her failed external USB hard drive

However, they work fine on the laptop sized hard drives and all solid state drives

However, they work fine on the laptop sized hard drives and all solid state drives

I had to break into the lap to to recover the hard drive though...

Of course that hard drive is state of the line fastest hard drive out right now

The hard drive was then powered up and the new laptop had no difficulty accessing the data on it.

Spilled wine on my laptop and was able to rescue my hard drive thanks to this cord

Super fast transfer of data between 2.5" SATA hard drives.

I was so worried that I wouldn't be able to or something happened to the hard drive, but this worked perfectly

Recovered many old external hard drives that failed to run

The connector has a nice snug feel when connected to a hard drive, not loose at all.

So far it works for all 2.5" SSD or laptop hard drives.

The item was priced fairly, and it was used to backup my hard drive when installing a solid state drive

Used this cable to plug a laptop hard drive into my Xbox One

However, the hard drive was not damaged.

/clone my hard drive onto a new SSD I purchased

so I can see what kind of documents are hidden in this little hard drive in front of me"Well if that is a question you do ask, I recommend getting one of these, they are great to have in your backpack or at home, so if you do have a ton of hard drives laying around (like a videographer like me tend to collect) you can access it with a normal USB 3.0 connection

If you need to get to a hard drive with "ribbon-type" cables, this is what you want.

It connected to the hard drive, could see all of the windows partitions but would not open any of the files

Bought this to connect my new SSD to my laptop to create a clone copy of my hard drive, for emergencies, as I have lots of old licensed software that can no longer be purchased, and I have used up the amount of times I am allowed to reload this software

Didnt work for my sata hard drive which is of course not sata iii

Just opened it and plugged it in and already works much better than the last device i bough which was Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drive Lay-Flat Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD [Support UASP

I've used it a few times already to transfer data off of a couple of old hard drives and it works beautifully

to clone the old hard drive to the new one.

Does not read any of my hard drives, shows its plugged in, but cannot access the drive.

This worked without a problem when I cloned my hard drive to replace it with a Crucial MX300 525GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal..

It's handy to have around if you have hard drives laying around.

Be careful, your hard drive or ssd may not show up immediately so don't freak out

The only reason I purchased this product is because I often diagnose a PC tower with an annoying mounted Hard Drive.

All the hard drives work when plugged back into my SATA ports, but I no longer even see the red light on the cable that was present on the first connection

I have several old hard drives that I need to part with

I connected my 1TB SSD so I could make a copy of my existing hard drive

Works great with all of the hard drives I have used it on so far.

I figure if I do the same with the wife's computer, this cable will allow both removed mechanical hard drives to be used occasionally as a backup drive.

the it the best of usb 3.1 it work very drive that I

My Macbook Pro Hard Drive crashed after 6yrs, so I got this

Worked as needed to transfer hard drives

Could not get it to work on all hard drives and the hard drive connector is weak and cannot take alot of strain

Tried with 2x 2.5 in hard drives

Unless you are imaging the larger desktop hard drives that need the extra power this cable works perfectly with laptop drives and SSD's which are all that I use these days

It was able to attach a laptop hard drive to my router

Absolutely no problems with different hard drive manufactures or PC/MAC/Unix platforms.

It didnt read my 1tb external hard drive

This simple little adapter plus free Clonzilla disk cloner software were the only things that allowed me to truly clone my laptop's existing standard hard drive over to a new SSD drive.

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.

You just turn on your computer, plug the fat end into your old hard drive, plug the small end into a USB 3 port and after a few minutes you can treat this setup as a really big thumb drive

I ordered the Star Tech 2.5/3.5" SATA/IDE adapter to get data off a desktop 3.5" hard drive and it worked perfectly.

If you are cloning a 2.5" SATA hard drive then you only need the cable and not the power supply to save some money.

I've formatted and backed up both SSD's and spinning hard drives

Used this cable to connect the bare drive to another computer and recover the data files before reformatting and restoring the laptop operating system.

In short, there's no chance this will work to power up a hard drive

I pulled a drive out a computer that died and used this to transfer the files to another hard drive.

This was the only thing other than a Samsung SSD drive (with included software) that I needed to upgrade an old laptop computer's hard drive to an SSD.

Nothing fancy with lights or anything like that other than the cable is good quality and I am able to choose what hard drive I can to backup.

Perfect for cloning hard drives

3.0 to 2.5-Inch SATA External Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure [Silver Aluminum Finish] (EC-UM30)

All the hard drives work when plugged back into my SATA ports, but I no longer even see the red light on the cable that was present on the first connection

Bought this to access files on my old hard drive

worked perfect..great price.. replaced 2 ssd hard drives with it using ssd cloning software.

Worked great to unload data from a Laptop hard drive that died.

I could not use this with 4 different hard drives that i

Be careful, your hard drive or ssd may not show up immediately so don't freak out

Purchased to clone my hard drive for an upgrade.

Also works well to rescue hard drives that have issues booting up to windows ..great price

I can remove the hard drive from offending laptop, connect this adapter, plug into my computer's USB port and tada!

One problem I had was that I needed to use a bit of force to be able to connect the sata usb cable to my hard drive.

Worked PERFECTLY while upgrading my laptop to a solid state drive.

This read my old XP hard drive and let me copy everything to my main Win 7 computer.

No power so the hard drive wouldn't start.

a few hours later it broke my 4tb hard drive.

can be used on SSD or laptop hard drive

The item was priced fairly, and it was used to backup my hard drive when installing a solid state drive

I was able to access my broken laptop hard drive and retrieve all my information just like as if it were on a thumb drive.

I purchased this SATA-USB cable to help clone my laptop's former primary hard drive to a new SSD.

This cable allows me to purchase a good internal drive and use it as both external and internal

Used this to turn an internal Sata drive into an external hard drive that I use as a system backup

I personally use this to connect to my hard drive externally as opposed to purchasing a standalone external hard drive.

Spilled wine on my laptop and was able to rescue my hard drive thanks to this cord

I had to break into the lap to to recover the hard drive though...

So glad I found this to pull stuff off my old mac's hard drive that was removed from the computer

However, they work fine on the laptop sized hard drives and all solid state drives

The laptop was too old to repair, and I had already gotten a new laptop but wanted to get my data off the hard drive in my original laptop.

Purchase this cable to duplicate my old hard drive to a new ssd for my 2014 Mac Pro laptop

I opened the broken computer, took out the hard drive, and recovered all my files

I purchased this to use to clone hard drives to SSDs for two different PCs

This one works for every situation, and even helped a colleague who was having problems with his external drive enclosure that he uses for reading various hard drives.

This works good if you need to plug a sata hard drive into a usb port.

Needed a cord to transfer everything off my old hard drive from my old computer that fried

I use them for lap top hard drives and this product works great

Used to clone my new hard drive

I just "mounted" the old drive in the plastic shell the new SSD drive was packaged in as a cheap hard drive case.

I needed to get data off of an old SATA hard drive, and the computer that it was in died

It should be useful again in the future when I replace the rest of my hard drives.

Must have when upgrading a hard drive.

Doesn't work, I tested with 4 known good working laptop and 4 known good desktop hard drives

Worked great for copying my old hard drive onto my new SSD

If the computer you're trying to hook an old hard drive to

Great for transfering data from one hard drive to another.

Use this cable to provide external solid state drive storage to video game consoles.

Works great - had to take data off of a hard drive on a computer built 12 years ago to put on newly built computer

I had no issues using it to transfer to a larger hard drive in my laptop

I ordered the Startech USB 3.0 to SATA III adapter cable to clone the hard drive of my Dell Inspiron 5559 to a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD.It took about 45 minutes to clone around 60GB of used hard disk space onto SSD with Samsung’s cloning app

Works well with an external hard drive.

It made swapping my hard drive for a SSD simple and fast by cloning my hard drive before replacing it.

I needed this to clone the hard drive from my laptop to a new SSD I was installing.

Relatively inexpensive device that allowed me to access a hard drive from an old computer that was malfunctioning and transfer files to a new computer.

After I broke the only available port to my hard drive, I ripped open its case and located the SSD card

It basically turned the hard drive that I yanked out of my dead laptop into an external hard drive

Got to use my old internal hard drive as any other external hard drive.

Never could get external hard drive to connect or recognize on my computer.

This is great if you use a solid state drive and need to carry all that storage with you for mulitable computers thus making it an external hard drive without having to spend the money on an external hard drive.

But failed after changing the hard drive a couple times

Works great cloning drives!

I used this in the process of converting my Windows machine from a regular hard drive to a perky SSD.

If you need something to just transfer files from a hard drive without much switching around and would prefer to have some protection, get an enclosure

I connected all of the necessary cables in a minute or two and the desk top hard drive appeared on my laptop.

I have not found anything bad to say yet, dang!Other thoughts Find a way to cool down your external hard drive if you are planning on using it continuously for many hours, it can get very hot.

The hard drives connected snug to the adapter and then plugged it into my working computer via the USB, it popped up as an external drive mounting as the "F: Drive" in my case

Meets the requirements to clone the old HDD hard drive to update your computer (mainly a laptop).

Must have when swapping hard drives.

An invaluable tool for dealing with older hard drives and data recovery.

This adapter worked great for hooking my old laptop drive (2.5 in

This item worked perfectly for cloning my hard drive for my laptop

My intended purpose was to clone my existing hard drive to a SSHD on my laptop

I pulled the laptop hard drive, plugged in the Star Tech adapter and then attached the usb plug into an open port on my desktop

Used this to connect a SATA hard drive that came OEM on a late 2011 Macbook Pro after I replaced it with an SSD

Broken drive isn't broken now.

Worked for 3 months, then the hard drive it was connected to fried, no longer spins, smells of burnt electronics, and is no longer detected by the MacBook

Prices have come down on SSD drives and they are a great improvement over the old style hard drives.

I was able to retrieve old photos and videos from an older hard drive which are worth their weight in gold.

This 2.5" SATA hard drive to USB adaptor was a lifesaver (OK datasaver) when my lap-top decided it had given enough, and died in a puff of smoke.

Now you will be able to access all parts of your old hard drive without problems

his cord made copying my hard drive to a solid state drive easier

Was hopeful to recover old data from old hard drives...

Worked great, I was replacing an old hard drive in my notebook pc and used this cable to copy the partition and all my data from the old one to the new hard drive.

I was able to clone to a SSD using this to connect my laptop to the new SSD so that I could clone the old and dying hard drive

and I have "free" external drives

It has been the best external drive you can get for that price

StarTech USB 3.0 to 2.5" SATA III Hard Drive...

Simple, yet effective way to connect your Solid State drive to a computer for formatting or use

Worked awesome, cloned a hard drive with it.

if there's a shred of life left in your hard drive.

The only problem I seem to have faced was that the actual hard drive itself was a bit exposed with nothing to protect it

I bought it to clone my hard drive as I wanted to swap it out for a drive with more capacity.

Good quality cable for transferring data to external hard drive

The problem causes the hard drive to NOT be properly recognized by the operating system.

I used this to retrieve files from a laptop hard drive after the laptop system board died.

Helped with transferring my data from my old Macbook Pro hard drive to my new Macbook Air.

Worked great to make a clone copy of a laptop hard drive to a new SSD

Very convenient way to copy data over to a new hard drive

BIOS had no issues detecting the drive for boot although it doesn't seem to like my front panel USB

Just what I needed to clone my MacBook Pro hard drive

It's as simple as plugging into your SATA hard drive and plugging into your USB

After looking into a few professional services to recover my hard drive and deciding I didn't want to spend $

Plus, due to the Adapter, the old Hard Drive is now a 500 GB External Drive.

Would not power up 2 different hard drives that I needed to do file transfers with.

Here is an enclosure that I got for my 2.5" hard drive and it works just as well

The cable was exactly what I needed to connect a hard drive directly to a USB port.

does what it is suppose to but overheats the hard drive it's connected to, killing the life of the hard drive you're trying to get information from.i have used many other products like this in my 20 year IT history and have never run into a single one that overheated the drive like this.i wouldn't recommend this unless you really don't care about your storage devices.

I used this cable, in conjunction with my back up software to clone and replace my laptop hard drive

has worked great with my old laptop hard drives.

Needed to get my files off a good hard drive from a dead laptop

My PC crashed but I was able to connect and get my information from the hard drive with ease

Unfortunately my drive isn't recognized--too corrupted, so it didn't work for me.

This cable is perfect for any data transfers or repairs on hard drives both ssd and old style type hd

This one worked with my hard drive.

I was a little nervous about taking out the hard drive and hooking it up to my new laptop

Used it on the USB 3.0 port on my laptop to clone my hard drive to an SSD

Very useful for my 2.5 inch hard drive.

SATA External Hard Drive Docking Station for Windows & Mac Os Compatible

Worked well with a toshiba brand hard drive from an Asus laptop

Functional adapter with decent quality feel - make sure if the hard drive needs separate power to drive.

This laptop hard drive reader worked exactly as expected

After removing the hard drive from a broken laptop, it was extremely easy to connect it to the adapter and plug it into another laptop

worked great for coping data from a failing hard drive.

Works like advertised, use it for any SATA hard drives

I have successfully repaired many hard drives by low level formatting them using this cable.

I removed the hard drive from the dead computer and connected it to my new computer using this adapter.

The reason for this is that traditional hard drives require more power than what the USB provides

Installed games on a solid state hard drive with this

Had to cut off some molding to get it to work, but once that was done, the hard drive fit and worked.

great for turning my old laptop hard drives into backup drives on the go.

This is the best hard drive

I'm in IT and often need to access info on a hard drive that I've removed from a pc

Tried it several times on my hard drive, pc never detected my drive

I had that problem and replaced my old SATA-to-USB cable with this one, and now my external drive is working fine

After completing the transfer and upgrade, I am now using this cable with the old removed mechanical 2.5" hard drive for occasional use as an external backup drive.

Doesn't work with traditional HDDs but does work great with solid state hard drives

I haven't tried them on full sized desktop hard drives (because of their power requirements) but they work perfectly on laptop sized HDD and SSD drives

I used this item to assist with the installation of my new Solid State Drive

For those who may wonder, no, the old drive is not dead

I used this to convert two different laptops from conventional hard drive to Samsung SSD.

If you are using a cheap SATA-to-USB or enclosure with certain hard drives, you will receive the dreaded AS2115 or AS 2115 problem.

Worked great as replacement part for my 1 TB external hard drive

The adapter provided a data connection and power to the hard drive.

This Worked great to get the files off my dead lap top hard drive.

Cloned my original hard drive in my laptop and installed the SSD, now the computer boots up faster

so I could reset my hard drive.

JK Guys, it was just a dying hard drive

It worked exactly how it said it would and let me copy my old hard drive onto a new SSD drive

My new computer did not recognize my hard drive or an older drive when I connected them with this cable.

The StarTech USB 3.0 to 2.5 SATA worked surperb when I cloned my old mechanical hard drive to my new solid state hard drive.

Worked perfect for cloning my old hard drive to my new hard drive

My DV6 HP Laptop died and needed to be replaced, but if the hard drive was still good I needed to get all my files off of it and transfer to my new Laptop

I couldn't have done the cloning of my hard drive without it.

The perfect tool to have when testing or retrieving information from a hard drive.

I bought this to clone my hard drive onto a Samsung 85 SSD before installing it

Needed to get old files off an old hard drive

So I purchased this product unknowingly that it was not compatible with the 3.5 Inch Hard drives

Some have said that 3.5 mm hard drives can only work with electric power and that the smaller 2.5mm drives can work strictly off of usb generated power.

Saying that, I needed/wanted my information and data from the OLD PC - - - Thankfully those A+ classes (from 2000) paid off - took out the old hard drive, connected the wires, and my old hard drive fired up - and I got all the information off the hard drive

I was able to access data from a hard drive on a crashed computer and move it to my new one with this cable.

Great cord works to transfer old hard drive to a new sad.

I originally purchased this to clone a hard drive onto an SSD to upgrade my laptop.

This worked perfectly and now I use the old hard drive as an additional backup device

It did not work to transfer files from my 3 TB internal Hard Drive to my new desktop computer

and I could see it worked perfectly except that I had to return it as I had different size hard drives and could not use this on all of them.

Recently my laptop died and I needed to get the important data off my hard drive

Works well to connect a 2.5" hard drive to my Dell Latitude E6520; the drive always shows up each time.

Work perfectly to allow me to clone the hard drive in a laptop to a solid state drive.

I was able to transfer data between hard drives very efficiently

Perfect for transferring laptop hard drive data

this is a quick solution to update your old and slow hard drive to an SSD

Worked great for being able to recover information off of old laptop hard-drives

Worked flawlessly in transferring data/cloning my new ssd hard drive.

I have at least 3 of these for cloning hard drives in my IT work

The product worked as promised with no effort at all - simply plug your hard drive into the cable, then the cable into a USB port, and it will show up as an external drive

good cable to have around in you swap hard drives, especially a SATA III SSD

Not sure I really needed this to clone my hard drive over to my new SSD, but this sure worked and made the job a breeze.

Works great to connect, test and setup hard drives.

Worked perfectly to get documents and photos off of my old hard drive when my Mac died.

Didn't work for completely dead drive but works on good drive so useless for my dead drive

From its excellent construction to the resounding snap it makes as the hard drive is

Use this unit to backup/restore hard drives

Saved my data from a crashed hard drive.

I can take out my hard drive and plug it in via USB externally and boot from that

Very nice for copying a Hard Drive and / or recovering data.

It has come in extremely handy in copying and cloning hard drives

Also to swap out the hard drives to a larger size

Does not work with normal desktop hard drives because they require more power.

It works perfectly to make a quick connection of a loose hard drive.

Busted out my retired 3 year old laptop, took out the old hard drive (not ssd), plug the cable in and bam

The high transfer speed allowed me to transfer 100+GB of data from my old hard drive to my new solid state drive in about 2 hours

cannot confirm until i have another hard-drive to test

If you needto get data off of a Sata Hard Drive or SSD this is what your looking for.

I used an easy file transfer program found online to clone a copy of my hard drive to the new SSD

It recognizes a hard drive but does not recognize it as an

I would always recommend using an enclosed casing if you’re planning on using an internal hard drive or SSD as an external USB drive, to protect the drive from drops, bumps, or static shocks.

Did the job in cloning an old hard drive to a replacement Aireye 2.5" SSD

Perfect for cloning my nearly dead drive to my knew Solid state drive in record time.

I had 2 hard drives I was trying to access

Worked perfectly to clone my old hard drive.

Worked perfectly on my laptop hard drive

Does not work any any hard drive I wanted to use it on.

Just got a new 500G laptop hard drive

I was unsure if this this thing would work to recover my external hard drive because the HD required a separate power supply, but this thing worked like a charm.

no one ever seems to tell us when they put in these adapters to make a hard drive fit into a specific motherboard).

Then I tried the laptop hard drive I was actually using and it still would not power it up or recognize it

I have used it on my Xbox One, and Xbox 360 to add additional harddrive room from the many "hard drives" laying around my home.

it would be a wiser choice to purchase an enclosed case that you can actually keep a hard drive inside.

This adapter, being USB 3.1, is capable of working with a desktop mechanical hard drive

I bought this for an easy hard drive data swap before installing a new hard drive

On older computers/USB2 ports, the drive simply does not work (even though it is spinning)

Plug into to your hard drive , work a like a champion

Works great for my laptop hard drives.

Keep in mind that if you're wanting to plug this into a 3.5" Hard Drive, you will need a different cable, as this one can't supply enough power to make 3.5" Hard Drives work.

I have several old hard drives from past computers (some of them are corrupted with viruses) that I needed to access

An Apple genius tested the drive and pronounced it irreparable

I used this for my Xbox 360 to fix a partition in the hard drive

I had some warnings on my hard drive starting to fail and easily avoided a lot of future grief.

Internal hard drives are intended to be stored internally where they are less likely to be moved or bumped

Does not work with 3.5" hard drives

I use this when working with my client’s hard drives and it works much better than the Sabrent 2 hard drive external enclosure

I can even use my old hard drive as an external back up thanks to this adapter.

Nice to be able to tap in to an "internal" hard drive and connect it via USB 3.0

Tried it with multiple hard drives but it didn't seem to power any of them up.

I emailed my results to support and StarTech stated it was the hard drive's fault because my Samsung needed to much power to start up then a 3.0 can give

This worked beautifully for accessing my old laptop hard drives for file recovery and retention.

Works perfectly for transferring files, but doesn't allow you to boot from any hard drive attached, just a word of warning.

I was able to get all of my data removed from my hard drive in a great amount of time

When you plug a hard drive into this cable, it doesn't feel like the hard drive will come off the cable easily

Used it to upgrade my HHD hard drive to an SSD hard drive

This is mostly not an issue, since I have more laptop drives available than not, but it's something to keep in mind.

I use this to retrofit old laptop hard drives to my xbox 360/ xbox

and it had a surge and fried itself and ruined my external hard drive as

The drives worked when connected directly.

Works well for most of my hard drives and SSDs, transforming it to portable drives

Replaced a 640 gig drive in my Dell laptop with a one terabyte solid state drive.

Carried enough power for a tradition hard drive and not just solid-state drives

I love this thing, it's helped me migrate an OS on multiple laptops, as well as easily formatting 2.5mm drives on my desktop without having to go inside.

And will continue using it to use those former laptop hard drives for off line backup use.

I was so happy at how easy it was to hook up my old hard drive to my laptop and access the files easily

It can read hard drives and it works and feels durable.

Plugged it into a WD Black 3tb hard drive.

Was able to get the information from my old crashed hard drives

fantastic for transferring files off your old hard drive to a new computer or driver

great companion to the Sabrent 2.5-Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool-free External Hard Drive Enclosure.

Simple cable, does what it was designed to do - allow a laptop hard drive to be accessed through a USB interface.

My hard drive cable in my computer dies multiple times a year, and this is the only thing that keeps my computer running

Used this to clone a mechanical hard drive over to a SSD

My external hard drive power source part quit working and this worked great to fix it.

Was able to recover hard drive from broken laptop

I used the StarTech USB 3.0 to 2.5" SATA III Hard Drive cable to clone a new Samsung SDD drive; took some time; I elected to let the cloning process complete overnight.

This cable is all you all you need to upgrade your older, sluggish Mac Book Pro harddrive to a new solid state hard drive

I have tried several computers and several hard drives, but nothing worked

This product only works for solid state drives

I have used it several times to create full images of my laptop, desktop and my wife's laptop SSDs to a Seagate Archive HDD 8TB SATA 6GBps 128MB Cache SATA Hard Drive (ST8000AS0002), using the free opensource Clonezilla

Did not work for any 2.5 inch hard drive, I believe this is meant for only Data and includes not enough power for normal 2.5, the back of my HD says 5v .86a, tried 2.0 and 3.0 ports, never able to format

This worked perfectly and was exactly what I needed to retrieve data from a hard drive.

Removed two working hard drives in hopes of transferring information to a new computer

It made cloning a hard drive an easy task.

Great hard drive reader for a great price!Would like to see a USB extension cord included with this as it IS pretty short

The perfect tool for mirroring a new solid state hard drive.

Used as an external adapter to clone internal hard drive into SSD

The hard drive crashed on my work laptop and I needed to try to get the content off my hard drive before I returned the laptop

Works great to take an internal hard drive and either recover data from it or convert it to a portable backup drive.

I bought this to use it on a internal hard drive to make it into an external hard for my Xbox one and work perfectly.

Quick and easy for fast drive mounting -

Recommended for cloning hard drive.

Made hard drive cloning and replacement much easier

This cable does not work on 3.5" hard drives as advertised, it can only power small drives like SSDs

My laptop graphic (GPU) broke, so I removed the hard drive and used this to connect it to my desktop so that I could retrieve my files (lots of photos and music).

At least I know the hard drive is alright

After months of waiting to move a hard-drive, I connect this item to the new drive only to discover it did not work, nor could the drive be seen

great for retrieving data off 2.5 sata hard drives!!

Pros:• Quick plug and play• Quickly switch from connecting one hard drive to connecting another• Sturdy construction• Fast transfer rate• Fits snuggly to a SATA port and a USB port

This product worked great had no problems with it was able to change hard drive in a laptop and transfer all data from old hard drive to the new one

Plugged it in and the hard drive showed up on my computer, but could not access it.

No problems encountered when cloning my hard drive to SSD.

Tried this cable on a perfectly functioning hard drive full of files

Worked perfectly for cloning a Macbook hard drive to a new SSD.

Handy with hard drive swap.

it works fine for a bare hard drive if you don't want to go through the trouble of connecting a hard drive inside a pc just to access things.

I also tried a 2.0 TB WD20NPVX Hard Drive (Western Digital) and it worked perfectly.

Worked right away, able to use the hard drive from my broken HP and retrieve the data from it.

I was able to recover data from hard drive with a corrupt operating system.

Used this to clone a hard drive

great for retrieving data off 2.5 sata hard drives!!

The table mounted stand up docks are better if you know the drive will be loose - but making the connector on the end of this wire any wider than a true power+data ribbon defeats most of it's purpose.

Works perfectly with the Samsung EVO 850 to clone my hard drive so it can be replaced.

Remove hard drive from enclosure, use this cable to connect hard drive directly to PC or laptop and get access to all your documents, pictures etc.

Worked perfectly for my ACER laptop hard drive

Works great to take an internal hard drive and either recover data from it or convert it to a portable backup drive.

Good interface cable to read old hard drives

I found this cable via a comment on a YouTube video about how to retrieve data from a failed hard drive

The perfect tool for mirroring a new solid state hard drive.

I constantly use this product to recover data from customer's hard drives when their PC's or laptops have crashed

May work with laptop hard drives, but not with large desktop drives

Great hard drive reader for a great price!Would like to see a USB extension cord included with this as it IS pretty short

after my external hard drive wouldnt connect to my computer anymore because of a cheaply designed usb connector i was afraid i would lose out on 1TB of movies pictures and data back

Either my drive got destroyed before i could use this product or this product didn't work

Quick and dirty way to transfer files from a failed PC with a working SATA connected hard disk drive.

Also good for extracting files from bad drives.

Works perfectly for me as a time machine backup drive to back up my MacBook's entire drive.

I understand that for the traditional "spinning platter" hard drives, some of these USB-powered adapters don't provide enough power and can have flaky behavior, so if you need to hook up one of those maybe you should get a SATA-to-USB dock with an external power supply

This was tricky at first, it would not work right away, took some time, but eventually I was able to get it to work with my old hard drives.

Far better than using a hard drive caddy.

This cable is all you all you need to upgrade your older, sluggish Mac Book Pro harddrive to a new solid state hard drive

Bought this primarily to upgrade an old laptop with a solid state drive.

Transferred 250 GB worth of data from a mid-2012 MacBook Pro to a 1 TB Samsung hard drive in about 3.5 to 4 hours.

We purchased this to get files off of an old hard drive

Retreiving my files from a hard drive was like retreiving files from an ordinary flash drive.

Was able to recover hard drive from broken laptop

As advised by a technician on revocering data from my daughter's laptop hard drive, this works GREAT!!!

only problem is I had to take my hard drive apart for the adapter to fit

great companion to the Sabrent 2.5-Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool-free External Hard Drive Enclosure.

Be careful, only works for certain hard drives

I was able to get the data pulled from my old hard drive without any connection issues, other than trying to access a WIN10 hard drive without "proper permission" but with some work there I was able to pull my data

It can read hard drives and it works and feels durable.

Very useful used it now on three hard drive updates to an SSD driveNote it does not come with software make sure you get a replacement hard drive that includes software to assist

This has become a valuable tool when I am diagnosing a possible laptop hard drive issue.

I used this cable to transfer data from a standard hard drive to a new SSD

Carried enough power for a tradition hard drive and not just solid-state drives

Have 3 hard drives with unknown status, this gadget was able to get into the drive and transfer the information onto another drive.

I recovered all our lost info from the defective hard drive!

Was able to access my files on my old hard drive

Works as needed to inspect or erase 2.5" hard drives for future use.

This saves my bacon on failed hard drives when i need recover user data

Works well for most of my hard drives and SSDs, transforming it to portable drives

I've tried several hard drives and several

I used this adapter along with the Samsung SSD drive transfer tools to migrate my internal drive of a slow laptop drive to a new SSD and it worked perfectly.

I needed this to transfer data off my old laptop hard drive.

Of course I can put each drive in its own case, but I prefer something that serves all and allows me to easily switch drive

I used it to connect a Samsung EVO 850 SSD to my 2011 Macbook Pro to install Sierra to the external hard-drive.

When you plug a hard drive into this cable, it doesn't feel like the hard drive will come off the cable easily

I needed a cable to connect to one of my USB ports or my eSATA port to my new hard drive

Using this for data transfer to solid-state drives.

I had originally purchase a Sabrent hard drive case to use an 275GB Crucial MX300 SSD as an external for my Xbox One

Worked great to recover data from a bad hard drive.

I use this with a spare 256 gig laptop hard drive I had laying around as a USB flash drive, works great!

My cable was faulty because it had problems maintaining a connection to my hard drive (old and new).

shipped quickly and worked to clone hard drive in my laptop to ssd.

I cloned a hard drive for my old dell computer and it's a bit faster now.

Great product, supplies power to the hard drive so you don't need an external power source.

This worked beautifully for accessing my old laptop hard drives for file recovery and retention.

it worked, and I was able to recover many files from my broken hard drive.

I can even use my old hard drive as an external back up thanks to this adapter.

I bought this to assist with a hard drive upgrade

The particular hard drive that I used was the https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0781Z7Y3S/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1.

A necessary item to replace a hard drive

I now use this cable to connect an external SATA 2.5 Inch drive from another laptop for real time backup of the SSD since I heard that when they fail they don't give any warning like regular hard drives.

on quality over timeI needed this to clone my hard disk drive to my solid state drive.

Bought it to use in upgrading slow hard drives in a couple of laptops to SSDs.

I was able to back-up all the data from my mac hard drive using this USB.

Just what the doctor ordered for accessing data on a loose hard drive.

But with an enclosure, I would not have the ability to swap hard drives as quickly as I would with this cable

I LOVE that with this little cable, I was able to retrieve ALL my files from a crashed hard drive.

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!

I thought this was the correct cable, but it does not fit my hard drive

I was unsure if this this thing would work to recover my external hard drive because the HD required a separate power supply, but this thing worked like a charm.

You are suppose to be able to connect a SATA hard drive to a USB 3 port and read & write to the hard drive, but it does not work

A great tool to have for techs dealing with multiple hard drives.

I bought this adapter for inspecting and formatting some SATA hard drives I have sitting around on my desk

I've used the same cable multiple times for migrating original SATA hard drives to SSD's and it works great.

The connection with the hard drive and the pc is a little shotty, I had to adjust it to get a solid connection

Perfect for cloning my nearly dead drive to my knew Solid state drive in record time.

Used this thing to attach large (2, 3 & 4 TB) corrupted 3.5" drives to a desktop and laptop through their USB ports to test, repair, recover, reformat, and re-setup

In my case I used it to Clone a laptop drive to a newer Solid State Drive.

I can read any sata hard drive

When I get laptop hard drives and need to test

Excellent build quality - worked with Macbook Pro with attached SSD with no problems to clone hard drive.

I would always recommend using an enclosed casing if you’re planning on using an internal hard drive or SSD as an external USB drive, to protect the drive from drops, bumps, or static shocks.

This cable has saved me a great deal of time when pulling data from old hard drives or cloning new SSD drives from existing HDD.

This worked great when I needed to get files off an old hard drive.

This adapter worked like a charm and I was able to attain all the information from my hard drive.