SABRENT [Upgraded Version Support UASP] Ultra Slim USB 3.0 to 2.5-Inch SATA External Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure [Black] (EC-UK30)

Ok, for the price, it's a really good case. First of all it's like a black anodized aluminum case, just big enough to fit the 2.5" drive. There is like a small rubber pad on the inside that seems to isolate it and hold it in place, nothing else holds it in place on the inside. The electronics plugs right into the sata interface on the drive, and is the other end of the case cover as well. It ships with 2 small screws and a small phillips driver which didn't work well, i used a slightly larger one i had at home and was able to screw it in tighter. Comes with a short usb 3.0 cable, the standard size on both size (rectanguler), plugged it into my laptop and at first nothing. But i forgot, it was from a ps4 so i had to go into the computer management and repartition the drive, and format it, then it worked fine as an external. It comes with with a vinyl like case to carry the drive around. So overall, it's sort of made cheap, but for the price, it's a great little case in my opinion. I noticed the the usb port was a little wonky as i almost plugged it in backwards (thought i broke the connector) but it's still working (tiny blue led shows disk access). Going to buy a few more of these for my extra drives i have sitting around, and the drive is powered by the usb cable as well, so couldn't be easier then that to add some storage to stuff like your tv, blu ray player, to store all the smart tv apps and things, or to your network router as a network drive. So far working well, and formatted as my F: drive. Update: Ok, assembled 4 of these so far. I did read that one person had problems with the circuit board touching the aluminum case. When you attach the drive, and insert it into the case, try both ways, flip it around, i always found that it fit better one way rather then other for whatever reason, but they all assembled fine. None of mine touched the case, BUT, if the 2 screws get loose, i can see the small soldered ends possibly can touch. So what i did, was the cases come packed with like this black foam, i cut just a super thin layer of it, to cover the ends and just shoved it on top, i'll see if i can take a pic and post it, but it's just the foam, i just pushed it on there, super thin layer lol. So far though, i have one on my ps4 pro, i have one on my network router, i'm using one as a small backup for my laptop, these are great so far. using 3 2.5" drives, 2 standard, 1 ssd, 1 hybrid, they all work fine.

This Thunderbolt 3 NVME M.2 SSD drive enclosure has been a solid, passively cooled, reliable workhorse for many years now, I have taken it on planes, trains, and to many different states in many different conditions. THIS IS NOT WATERPROOF, however it is very durable, and has not overheated on me. I keep PC Games and photos and videos on mine and it's quite fast. The enclosure features a completely tooless design, which has aided in drive formatting and setting up new windows images or cloning drives from my laptop. Seriously this was a great buy and I should have reviewed it sooner, worth every penny.

Had previously ordered the plastic case version of this mode and returned it. This aluminum case model is slightly better built and I had no problems with the enclosure screws. It works fine and I recommend it as an inexpensive option for an external USB 3.0 enclosure.

I was tasked with editing a 4K/24fps interview for a local client and needed a separate drive to hold the data on from the internal on my M1 MacBook Pro. I had an old 240GB MyDigitalSSD BPX (2280) M.2 NVMe SSD lying around, so I thought it would make the perfect video editing drive, but I needed an enclosure that could fully use the NVMe speed--something Thunderbolt 3. I still use a Sabrent-brand NVMe drive in another computer that has performed perfectly since I bought it, so thought highly of the manufacturer. This was no disappointment. The box feels solid and hard, so tough I have no problem just throwing this drive into my bag along with my other components. The assembly is almost insultingly easy, no tools needed to insert the drive and close it up, not even a screw to hold down the M.2 drive. The only confusing part of installation was the lack of any information on what the cooling pads were for--I had to look up on YouTube to realize the colorful blue stickers were to act as cooling pads for the drive, and the reason it came with two of them was because they were different thicknesses. I ended up using the thinner of the two since the thicker one didn't quite fit. Since then, it's been perfect. I was able to edit my 4K/24 interview in Premiere Pro on my M1 MacBook Pro without any drive-related performance issues. Any slowdowns that happened were due to CPU processing and not the drive's delivery of data. The box does get warm, but not too warm. It never gets too hot to touch, and it never fails even after hours of use. I've worked with the drive both plugged in direct and through my CalDigit TS3 Plus, and in both arrangements performance is identical. My only issue was that the price IS higher than other enclosures, but I guess you just have to pay more for the faster interface--unquestionably, it's worth it.

Nice high quality product! Works as designed.

I bought this for a new Mac Mini M2 Pro I bought so it could have a huge, fast external drive for various projects. Use was as dead simple as it can be. You turn a very easy to use semi-circular handle that flips up, remove the metal panel, snap in your NVMe card, replace the panel and turn the handle back to its original position, plug it into a Thunderbolt/USB C port, and you are done. It takes less time to install a drive in it and get it hooked up than it took me time to write this. Fast transfer speeds that take advantage of Thunderbolt 3/4. Heat is not a problem even with intense use, and its so rugged I bet I could throw it up against a brick wall and it would hurt the wall before harming itself. The design seems, well, Apple-like in its ease of use and functionality. (Remember the easy-to-remove side doors of PowerMac G5’s and MacPros? It’s that well made.) Can’t think of how I would improve on it. Well worth the money.

yep! Excellent case!!! VERY snug inside the case and then the case goes into this rubber padded sheatch and fit tight as a glove! I like it so much that I bought two because the first once I got at a discount or free was so nice I had to have another one. They are VERY nice and much like the same thing Lacie sells (usually orange) they provide shock absorption, a tight fit, bumper protection in case of a drop etc. I couldn't be happier. I put on 750GB 7200 Sata 2.5" hard drive in each one. One wil music and movies and the other with all my PC and Mac installs etc. I work in IT so it's awesome to have large portable USB powered devices for transferring tons of GB of files and the one with movies is hooked to my AC wireless router and will act as a DLNA device so I can stream movies to it with computer totally off and it's well protected against heat and shock since it's encased in rubber. Tons of uses but the bittgest is protection on the go and when you drop or bang it around in your tech bag it's well protected. The drive enclosures are USB 3.0 so a nice fast read and write is a boneus touch for the enclosure plus the rubber protection couldn't maker a better combo. You do NOT get a drive with this of course, you just get a 2.5" sata hard drive enclosure and the rubber sheath and a usb 3.0 cable all white. I'd recommend a 7200 RPM drive or SSD to compliment the USB 3.0 data speeds of the enclosure and you'll have one fast little external harddrive indeed!! Can't say enough good about it. Fit TIGHT too!! LOVE this thing, I now have three lol. I ordered another one today for my 1TB SSD that came yesterday lol. ONE thing I should mention...some drives that are very skinny like 7 and 9mm fir a TINY bit loose in the enclosure and can jiggle around (VERY little) but still it's possible so whet I did was simply get a small piece of two sided heat tape or black masking take and mage a little two sided roll of it and stuck it to the drive then slid it in before I screwed the drive into the enclosure to keep it from wiggling. But most 2.5" drives won't do that because 99.9% of the time they're a prefect fit thickness wise. :-)

There is nothing special here. This is just a cheap bare bones USB 3.0 drive enclosure with adequate read and write speeds. The quality of the case itself is what I would consider "decent". It does provide some protection for the drive but the top will not close all the way and my 2.5" drive slaps around the inside. As far as aesthetics go the enclosure has a modern, sleek look to it, I find it pretty attractive. Installing a 2.5" drive into the bay was pretty straight forward. The top comes already removed, all you have to do is align the SATA connectors on the face-plate with the connectors on the drive, push them together, slide the drive into the case, and then secure the face-plate with screws (this simplicity actually causes a few problems which will be noted later on).. I tested the drive using two identical drives, one was utilizing a SATA III interface and the other was in this drive enclosure hooked up to a USB 3.0 port. The drive when connected to SATA had average read and write speeds of 77 and 61 MB /s respectively. When bench-marked through the drive enclosure the speeds were nearly slashed in half. Through the enclosure I was getting read and write speeds around 32 and 27 MB /s. This speed reduction was not too big of a deal for me, the read and write rates were completely adequate for what I needed the drive for (storing movies, pictures, documents, ect...), but I thought it would still be appropriate to note this. Okay, so at this point I would have happily given the enclosure 4 stars but I ran into a pretty big issue. After moving the dive around the house for a couple of days the hard drive disconnected from the contacts inside the case. I opened the drive up and reseated the connection but a few days later this happened again. The internal HD is pushed into the drives contacts via a small foam pad all the way in the back, this is the only way it is held in place. As I said earlier my HD flopped around the inside of the case so obviously it was not doing its job and thus the connection was also coming lose. As a sort of "ghetto fix" I put a couple layers of electrical tape on the back of my drive and this slight increase in thickness solved the problem. For the price this is a decent drive enclose with a few drawbacks. If you just need something cheap which will get the job done and you don't mind having to make a few tweaks to it then this will probably be fine for you. FOR MORE INFO CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkraRyEwg1U Pros: Cheap gets the job done easy to assemble looks nice Quality of the included USB cable is good Cons: carrying case smells funny Drive speeds reduced Drive initially not secured in the enclosure properly Face-plate will not close all the way

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I was using an SSD (1Tb Samsung Evo 860) in a sata enclosure for my Apple Photos drive. Linked to an Apple Mac Mini with 16mb of RAM I was getting significant lag editing photos and scrolling through 40k+ photos. I switched to this device with a Sabrent Rocket 1Tb M2 NVMe drive in an attempt to get round the lag. The faster write/read speeds in conjunction with the Thunderbolt housing has thankfully reduced almost all the perceptible lag, and only video editing (4k GoPro) now seems to make it work hard. I'm not into monitoring numbers, there are plenty on here who live by that mantra. For my own personal purposes with this configuration it solved my issues. You need to initialise the drive before use using Apple Disk Utility . My O/S version is OS-X big sur (11.2.3 as of mar-21), drive was formatted as APFS / GUID partition map. Pros: Easy to install, tool free, no screw required (twist lock screw included), very dense aluminium casing, nicely made, matches mac lighting / design, seems a decent step up from SSD/Sata Cons: Proprietary cable with lugs (see photo), cable is too short, cant buy another longer cable that I can see so far

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Preso questo enclosure per nvme perché thunderbolt e assicura una velocità di 40gbs, non ce ne sono molti in giro e soprattutto molti riportano la velocità senza specificare che magari è condivisa tra più porte presenti sul dispositivo. In questo caso la porta thunderbolt è unica e rende perfetta l'accoppiata con qualsiasi Mac o iMac in circolazione. PRO: - Dimensioni: appena oltre la grandezza di un nvme 2880 - Facilità di installazione: si apre attraverso un anello che ruota e l'nvme va inserito nel connettore e fermato con un comodo gancetto all'altra estremità - Materiali: scocca in alluminio, robusta e ben fatta, perfette le finiture, ma si sa che Sabrent non sbaglia - Velocità: il chip gestisce perfettamente anche i dischi con velocità oltre i 5000mbs, ovviamente da il meglio di sé, se utilizzato con cavo e connessione thunderbolt CONTRO: - Temperatura: sotto stress la scocca raggiunge temperature elevate, nonostante sia fornito un kit con un pad di pasta termica da applicare (in due spessori) - Peso: essendo la scocca in metallo, il peso non è dei più leggeri, complessivamente accettabile ma non il più leggero in commercio - Compatibilità: è compatibile solo con nvme m2 formato 2880! Attenzione al disco che volete installare.... - Costo: corpo in alluminio, connessione thunderbolt 3/4 e marchio probabilmente spingono il prezzo un po sopra la media; ma si sa che la qualità si paga CONCLUSIONI: un enclosure perfetto sotto quasi tutti gli aspetti, non per tutte le tasche, ma se cercate un contenitore per nvme thunerbolt 3/4 perché possedete un computer di casa Apple e volete sfrutture appieno la velocità di trasferimento, non ci sono molte alternative valide sul mercato. Voto: 9

I am very satisfied with this enclosure. It delivers excellent performance and has been completely stable with my Mac Studio, even during heavier workloads. The tool-less design is a great feature, making it quick and easy to install or swap an SSD without any tools. Overall, it feels very well built and reliable. I can definitely recommend this enclosure.