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This review is for the following item: StarTech USB 3.0 to 2.5" SATA III Hard Drive Adapter Cable w/ UASP - SATA to USB 3.0 Converter for SSD/HDDStartech makes some good equipment, and this USB 3.0 2.5 SATA III adapter fits my needs exactly. This was purchases on September 21, 2016.I bought this adapter with the intent to be able to access any 2.5" drive if I needed to do data transfers, and more. As I encounter many such drives in my profession, it has been invaluable on many an occasion. Cloning drives has never been easier, and grabbing old data is a breeze.My goal is to eventually get the USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 10Gbps adapter for 2.5" drives. Faster speeds means more efficient work, and my management always like better work.Anyway, this adapter is an excellent tool which never leaves my work bag. I highly recommend it.

I had a toshiba laptop that was no longer turning on. All of the pictures I had taken of my son when he was a baby were on the laptop and not backed up, so I was definitely desperate for a way to retrieve the photos. After looking into a few professional services to recover my hard drive and deciding I didn't want to spend $200+, I discovered this option.This cord was very simple to use and worked like a charm! It basically turned the hard drive that I yanked out of my dead laptop into an external hard drive. 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.In short, this product was so easy to use, worked as advertised, and is very affordable.

Dumped a cup of coffee on my computer. I know what you're thinking; yes, I died a little inside!On my new Windows 10 all-in-one Dell touch screen (sale at Best Buy for just under $300)Plugged this into the old hard drive (very easy to find once I pried the HP Pavillion laptop open)Right click on the start button, click on disk management. For mine it's drive E....Right click on drive E and click on open.Of course, it said I'm not the administrator but it opened anywayGUESS WHAT? I Clicked on control, clicked on all my files that were on my desktop and TRANSFERRED THEM!I might stand in front of the computer store..................... that wanted to charge me $60 to check the hard drive's viability and$120 to copy everything over PLUS $15 to buy their flash drive.............and just tell everyone about this!!!!!

Great cable, USB 3.0 plug (5 Gb/s), SATA III connector (6 Gb/s). So theoretically, it should transfer data to an external hard drive at speeds of up to 5 Gb/s. Look at the specs of other similar cables for sale on Amazon, as of the time I wrote this review, most of them run at USB 2.0 speeds only, and it says that in the fine print, not the title. USB 2.0 is only 480 Mb/s transfer speeds. Which means this cable I am reviewing here is more than ten times faster. So spend the extra $3 and get this better cable. One thing to note, this cable only supports laptop style hard drives (2.5 inches), not desktop style hard drives (3.5 inches). The reason is that the bigger hard drives require a cable that is powered by an AC adapter, and this cable does not have an AC adapter.

I have owned several dozen or so external harddrive bays/enclosures and adapters. This cable is probably one of the best things I have in my geek toolkit. You can connect nearly any 500GB platter HDD laptop drive to or any SSD drive and access via USB.My other phone is a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact and it supports and includes an microUSB to OTG USB adapter. I have been able to connect my 128GB SSD to this cable and then it to the OTG adapter and access an SSD on my Z3 Compact. This cable works great on Macs or Window computers (Mac Mini and Win7/8 tested) and SATA/SATAII/SATAIII laptop hard drives and ssds. It's very easy to carry around in case you need to pull data from a laptop hard drive. Desktop platter hard drives will not work and any laptop hard drives over 500GB won't either since the design of those hard drives requires more power to spin the extra platters added.For being so cheap, I'd recommend this cable for anyone that owns or uses a computer. It will come in handy some day or every day.

Let's start by saying that I'm not a computer person when it comes to the mechanical aspects and what's inside. My old laptop got a virus which wiped out my OS. I couldn't even get the CD to run to overlay the OS and have hope of saving all my pictures, work files and house related data! My nephew (who IS good at this stuff), sent me the link to here and told me to buy this. I did. It came in a few days later and I waited about 2 weeks to attempt, what I thought would be, a nightmare! I decided to tackle it yesterday and after spending about 15 minutes taking the screws out of the old laptop and figuring out what was the hard drive, (and for those of you non techie ppl, it's very obvious when you get in there!!), I merely plugged one end into the old hard drive and plugged the other end into my new laptop and there it was!! I transferred all my files in less time than it took me to get the screws off the back of the old machine! Most of the other reviews went over my head, but if you just need to transfer your data from one hard drive to another, this product is golden!! Now I have all my files on my new laptop, but also have my old hard drive that I can use monthly to back up my new machine, using this cable!! I'm so smart! lol

I ordered three of these, two work perfectly using an SSD and connected to my Raspberry Pi media server, one was DOA and had to be returned for refund.The working ones seem reasonably fast and stable, no errors shown in the logs for many gigabytes of data transfer.

Used this device for years to connect both IDE and SATA drives to PC for data transfer. Works for both 2.5" and 3.5" drives. I still use it when out onsite, but I now use an external, USB-connected drive enclosure that sits on my desk when in the office. It is a little more convenient and did not cost much.

Very useful for moving data off of broken laptop by removing hdd and plugging in to a computer usb port. Used on linux to copy 100's of Gb of stuff from a raid array to use as a data resource with a laptop at a remote job site. It is about the same speed as esata. Could be used to clone hdd to a ssd in some cases. Works with windows 10 diskpart and disk management. Drive not recognized as oem device, e.g. WD software does not detect WD drive in Windows, also WD drive shown as asmt 2115 in gparted in linux. Esata would report actual disk hardware, not usb device name.

StarTech USB 3.0 to 2.5" SATA III Hard Drive... Sold by STARTECH.COMThis Sata drive adaptor is packaged in a plastic bag and shipped in a bubble wrap bag.It is brand new and in good visual condition. Made of mostly molded rubber and plastic.I have not had good luck with these kinds of adapters and when I tried to use this on my drive, it did not work.Do consider the other reviews as this may be a problem on my side but there is really nothing that I can door change, it is simply plug and play. I cannot tell you why it did not, or why it should have worked.I did not receive anything for my review of this device.170128 0015-- UPDATE May 31, 2017 --I had placed this adapter in the bag and forgot about it until I was working on a computer and had a drive problem come up. All my enclosures were in use so I took the adapter out and plugged it in. It worked perfectly. My earlier review did not respond positively and I can't tell you why there might have been a problem, perhaps one of the drives I tried to run.But this spun up the hdd and accessed the information with no problems at all.I have changed the rating to a 4. This is most convenient for those fast fixes.AGAIN, I did not receive anything for this unbiased review.170531 2303

It did work. The problem is not what you expect. It reports to the computer you have a SCSI drive, not for example a Seagate or WD drive. Why is this important? I tried to use Acronis True image software supplied free from Western Digital which requires a WD drive as the source or destination. It did not see the WD drive as my destination, but rather a SCSI drive. So, the software would not work. I was able to use Shadowcopy to copy files over to the new drive. I partitioned my new drive with a C: and D: drive. Shadowcopy was able to copy over the D: (Recovery drive on my HP laptop) to the new D: on the WD drive I bought from Amazon. I took out the old Toshiba drive which crashed on the boot sector, and replaced it with the new WD drive. I booted up the computer, HP's software saw there was no operating system on the C: drive, and let me install it off the D: drive.Make sure you have a bootable backup of your drive on a USB or flash memory device. Otherwise it is a pain. I did not have a bootable backup so I had tell the laptop to format the Toshiba C: . I used F10 or F11 or F2 upon booting up the HP laptop to get to format. I forgot which one. I lost only about 5 letters I wrote. The rest was backed up. After I formated the Toshiba C: drive I then reinstalled Windows 8.1 from the D: (Recovery drive). When it asks you if you want to delete the Recovery drive say NO every time. Just because you make a copy of the Recovery drive or use it, doe not mean you can not use it again and again. Windows 8.1 says you can only make one copy of the Recovery drive. Not true. What I like about Windows 10 is it does not say anything about limiting how many bootable backup copies you can make on USB memory sticks. After I got all my software working correctly on my new WD drive, I created a bootable drive on a 128 GB USB stick. I then used Shadowcopy to copy all my software, excluding Windows to a directory I called backup on the USB stick. Now I have a bootable USB with Windows 10, and all my software and files on it. The Toshiba drive has Windows 8.1 on the C: drive, and I am keeping it as a backup to my USB stick backup. However, after losing the boot sector, I would not use it as my primary drive again.

Works extremely well with SATA III and USB 3.0 ports, although not well at all with SATA II and/or USB 2.0 ports. I've come across this before with various USB 3.0 devices not working well with USB 2.0 ports, but it's the first time I've seen that issue with SATA II drives. Aren't both interfaces SUPPOSED to be backward compatible?!At any rate, I purchased this cable along with a Western Digital 750 GB 'Black' SATA III 7200 RPM laptop drive to use for backups and transferring files from one computer to another via USB 3.0 ports, and with that particular drive and when using USB 3.0 ports, it works flawlessly. Any other configuration (hard drives and/or USB ports), not so much.Recommended, as long as you stick to SATA III and USB 3.0

The useage is mostly SSD not all HD. 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. AC/DC adapters with higher current ratings (>3a) work fine when combined with SATA interfaces.

I have a Western Digital My Book hooked up to my Linksys router using a mini usb connection on the back of the drive which also has a esata hookup available. I wanted to increase speed so I purchased this cable to replace the mini usb. I tried everything using this cable and could not get the router to recognize the drive. Sending it back.

Amazon has still not processed my return for this item and it has been 13 days since they received the package at their Kentucky facility. The cord seemed to work ok with my old HDD but when I used with the Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD I was unable to connect to my MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2010. However, the hard drive that I purchased was most likely not compatible with my laptop as I've read from other sites and posts. The cord seemed to be of good quality but Amazon has really upset me with the return at this point. I am still waiting for the refund for the $180 SSD as well!

Very handy, cheap, does everything it says it does... I have had performance problems with certain toshiba SSDs that get higher throughput installed on sata3 internally. I would not use it as a replacement for ssd enclosure however it is great for connecting to many different drives and checking general health and recoving data from them.I just snapped the sata plug on mine on a snugger drive and am ordering a 2nd one...because it is cheap and handy.

This cable is not compatible with all makes and models of SSD drives. I bought it to migrate files from a dying Micron SSD to a new Samsung 850 PRO drive. When I plugged it in and started the Samsung Migration software, it showed a transfer rate of about 8MB/sec and an estimated 24 hours to copy one drive to the other.I wound up plugging the new drive into an unused SATA port instead and completed the transfer in 53 minutes. I swapped the new drive into the computer and plugged the Micron drive into the Startech cable and was able to get about 150MB/.sec throughput. I also tried it on a new-ish Mac and got similar throughput with the Micron drive.Bottom line: Maybe it will work, and maybe it won't.

Item pictured is not the same item I received. Based on the picture I was expecting these to be single cable USB 3.0 to SATA converters. Instead I received dual cable USB2.0/USB3.0 converter cables. I can still use them and they seem to work OK using the USB 3.0 cable however I'm disappointed in the discrepancy.We are using these to send to end users in my company for data transfer of old hard drives to new drives and the 2 cables will confuse many of them. Plus I could have purchased the style cables I received for a cheaper price.

Note this only works for smaller SATA drives (like for laptops). I tried connecting to a bigger (desktop) drive and it would not sufficiently power it up.

Got this to replace another StarTech USB 3.0 to SATA adapter since I now have a laptop with USB-C/Thunderbolt. Quick test of moving files from laptop to a Samsung 950 PRO 1TB SSD shows ~250MB/sec with old USB3 adapter and ~110MB/sec with the new USB-C adapter. Not what I expected. Don't know if this is something inherent to the cable or USB-C in general. Not the laptop as I'm doing both tests through a Thunderbolt 3 dock with 2x 1920x1200 LCDs connected. Only advantage I see is that the cable is a little thinner. Speed just isn't there so back it goes.

Nice compact cable, but didn't work for my application. I have a Mediasonic Probox that hold 4 drives. The Probox supports both ESata or USB 2. I wanted a cable to connect to the Probox's ESATA port to a dedicated HTPC that has USB3 ports. This cable did not work for that application. Win 7 detected the cable, but wouldn't show any drives in the Probox. I checked the Probox and it shows the drives when hooked up using either USB2 or ESata. I even removed all but one drive and tried it that way with the StarTech cable. No joy.

Works a charm, and compact!Update: I took this traveling with me for the first time, used it on the same laptop I always do and the cable crapped out, giving windows a 'Power Surge warning' when I plugged it in. It was then unusable for the duration of the trip. It also played havoc with my other USB ports while it was plugged in. It looks like it did no permanent damage, as the drive and USB ports work when I am not using the cable. Still, the cable is going in the garbage and I don't trust the other two I purchased now. I will find alternatives.

I purchased two of these to allow previous drives from my old computer to be easily used with the new system. I didn't want to hassle with finding free and moving around SATA cables inside the computer. When one drive is plugged in, I can hear the USB plugged in sound, and for a split second, I can see a drive icon. However, Windows 10, at least, won't recognize a drive plugged in with this cable. Maybe, there's not enough power going to the harddrive to power it.

So I bought this to handle a drive migration, and it worked exceptional, so long as it is used on Windows 8.1 or OLDER. Windows 10 support is not available for this device at this time, even according their own technical support.Startech, instead, has released a second product to support Windows 10, part number USB312SAT3CB (startech's part). The product on this page is USB32SAT3CB (note the missing 1). If you're upgrading to Windows 10 like nearly every windows user out there... get the part USB312SAT3CB.Startech's chat support has said they'll follow up with me seeking support for Windows 10 and this device, however I don't see that happening since they've released a replacement product.

I bought this for an easy hard drive data swap before installing a new hard drive. At first the HDD started to spin up and registered as a USB device with no available volumes, unable to format. I disconnected and reconnected the cable and no longer get any functions from the cable. 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'm assuming at this point that the cable failed.

For me, it was a worthless product. I was going to use an SSD drive as a boot disk for a machine that has M2 SSD, so I wouldn't need to have an ugly SATA cable in my gaming rig. I was thinking that I can carry that SSD as an external drive with this cable. But noooo.... First of all, my Mac that I was going to prepare the boot disk on didn't recognize the SSD connected with this cable. I asked a friend if I could use his windows PC to create a boot disk, and I did. Then I connected the bootdisk to my machine but it didn't recognize the SSD either. When I did it with a SATA cable, there was no problem. So, yes, I blame this cable. When I wanted to return it, Amazon asks for a return fee, which translates to waste of money.

At this point, the cable would not power up a new Samsung SSD. I spoke with the customer service of StarTech, after researching and trying ways to access the drive through drive management and such, and they were not able to assist. Then I tried the laptop hard drive I was actually using and it still would not power it up or recognize it. 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.I would give StarTech service three/four stars for their assistance, 1 star for pushing the concern to the drive and not the cable and the product 1 star for not working- presumably...on two 2.5 drives (one SSD and one Seagate HHD). Will continue to troubleshoot, by buying a different cable, and updating my review to reflect my findings.Product being returned.

Simply doesn't work. I had a normal 1tb HDD that I was trying to clone on to an SSD equivalent and the system, Windows 10, would not recognize the connection. I went into disk management utility in the computer management of the system and still, no device. I then connected my new drive to an older Acronis SATA to USB 2.0 adapter that had an independent power cord you plug in to the wall receptacle in addition to the USB cord and no problems...it just doesn't deliver...

I purchased this cable to transfer my HD data to a SAMSUNG SSD EVO 850. Upon connecting it to my usb port, the SATA end of the cable became extremely hot. Hot to the point where I could not hold it anymore. While the cable getting hot was bothersome, what really irked me was when I connected the SSD and was unable to erase and reformat (FYI using MacBook Pro 15-inch, Mid 2012 OS X Yosemite) . Until I purchase a new SATA cable or enclosure to transfer my data, I can only assume that the cable is bad and thus the reason it has received 1 star.**UPDATE**I went and purchased a new SATA to usb cable from a local store and it worked perfectly. I do not recommend buying this cable.

Item Is not as described. I order an adapter that has one USB 3.0 cable combining data and power with a SATA hard drive adapter at the other end. what I got was a cable that has the USB connectors, one for power and one for data, with a SATA hard drive adapter on the other end. Very disappointed at this blatant misrepresentation. the picture nor the description are accurate.