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

Perfect for transferring laptop hard drive data

I removed the drive from the dead laptop and used this cable to connect it to another computer in order to retrieve files.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The laptop makes the appropriate "connected" type noises, but doesn't show the SSD anywhere... including in Samsung's software.

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

Works great for my laptop hard drives.

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

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

Allowed me to transfer my data from a dead laptop.

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.

Recovered data from hard drive taken from my dead laptop.

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

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.

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

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

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

Made updating our laptop a breeze.

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

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

has worked great with my old laptop hard drives.

The cable was installed on a used SSD from a failed laptop

Laptop died and needed access to my HDD.

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

Just got a new 500G laptop hard drive

this gadget saved my brain which was in my dead laptop

My laptop died and I wanted to transfer some files to my desktop

My laptop died and, of course, I hadn't backed up my files in months.

I was able to remove the SATA harddrive from my laptop (bad harddrive cable in laptop and wouldn't boot), and use this cable to connect it to my Desktop.

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

Allowed data to be recovered from a dead laptop.

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

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.

item worked as expected.very satisfied.retrieved pictures and music from a "dead" laptop.

Similarly tried with a desktop class HDD to no avail, but slower laptop HDDs and SSDs have no issues and mount promptly

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

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

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

When I get laptop hard drives and need to test

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

Worked perfectly on my laptop hard drive

Recovered two dead laptop HDDs easily.

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

I've been pulling drives from dead laptops to save data and this is just what I needed instead of putting the drives in and out of cases.

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

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

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

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

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