SABRENT SATA to USB Cable - USB 3.0 to 2.5” SATA I/II/III Hard Drive Adapter - External Converter for SSD/HDD Data Transfer (EC-SSHD)

Needed to recover some critical data from an old HP laptop that died. My last backup was over a year old, so I popped out the hard drive and used this cable to connect it to my new laptop just like an external usb drive. It worked! The cable attached securely to the drive, was easy to setup and easy to use. What’s best is it also has a status light that shows when it’s getting power and even flashes when it’s transferring data. This little device was a lifesaver!

Disclaimer, this product didn't actually work for me, but I am rating it 5 stars anyway due to the after sales support from Sabrent. I purchased this product to read 4 sn200 u.2 drives I purchased to verify functionality before being placed in a server. If you know about older u.2 tech like the sn200, you will know that these things are insanely power hungry for a drive, consuming over 25watta on startup/run. This product did not work for me because of that, the included adapter can do a max of 24 watts. I contacted Sabrent who immediately opened a case and investigated, we are actually still working back and forth but the experience has been nothing short of incredible... Their techs worked with me and still are months later, they agreed with the issue and are in the process of creating a new product to solve this VERY specific issue even going as far as to purchase drives of their own for internal testing as they did not want to possibly damage mine when I offered them for testing. Sabrent has earned a lifelong customer out of me with this one interaction. Absolutely and seriously impressed..I did confirm functionality with data drives which was nice and the adapter itself is streamlines and smaller than others I've owned. The fast USB connection is nice too. As I said, I'd highly recommend this product even though it technically didn't work for me because of how great Sabrent has been. If you drive draws more than 24w on boot, I would also recommend to wait for the updated version to show up on the market.

Excellent little tool. I previously used the full enclosure version of this, but I'll reserve that one for travel, and use this one at home from now on. Never had a complaint about any Sabrent product!

Good new is the product works. Bad news is it took me an hour to figure out why it wasn't working. It technically explains in the manual to "Only install the drive when the power is off and the USB cable is disconnected" but doesn't make it clear how to get windows to see the drive (especially for larger drives). I was able to get it to work by connecting the HDD to the adapter first, connect the external power to the adapter, and only then connecting the USB to the computer once the drive had spun up and been running for a minute, and windows finally saw the drive. The issue is that windows doesn't see the device as a USB "device" it sees it as a hard drive. So in order for the adapter to have the hard drive's information it needs time for the drive to spin up connected to the adapter before being plugged into windows. Clearer directions in the manual would be nice but for anyone thinking their drive or adapter is broken, specifically for 3.5" drives.

My old laptop died ... couldn't even safe boot the thing. I had important files on that hard drive.This was like a $10 bet with myself that I could recover everything I needed from that old drive.I took that old hard drive out, use this jumper to connect it to my new laptop. Got all those important files.I had low expectations to begin with, but this was too easy to not say something about it.

Needed to speed up my wife’s computer that was taking 15 minutes to boot and become usable every time she worked from home. Purchased a 1 terabyte SSD SATA drive and this SATA cable. Used a free disk utility to mirror the old drive worked great, took 3.5 hours to copy old disk to the new SSD. Used a USB port this process is very easy.

Works great, fast transfer to my ssd, nothing to add really, just get it.

This item was delivered in excellent condition and performed exactly as specified with no discrepancies.