UGREEN Hard Drive Enclosure, SATA to USB 3.0 Caddy for 2.5/3.5 Inch HDD SSD

Great for putting old HDDs to use after upgrading to SSD or NVMe drives, this device is super easy to operate—just slide off the top, place your hard drive into the holder, push it in, replace the lid, and you’re set. The power and USB cables are a convenient length, and the clear, easy-to-see on/off button makes it simple to use. It really brings old HDDs back to life. I have noticed it can get quite hot with prolonged use, but removing the top solves the issue. For a low cost, it’s a great way to repurpose your old drives.

Quick and easy fit. Up and working in less than 10 minutes. No tools needed. Just make sure you check the box for the USB connecting cable as in my eagerness, I missed it first time. One downside in the USB connecting cable to the enclosure is l little different to what I expected. Looks like a double plug. Apart form that, no problems.

Very effective. Feels solid. Drives fit firmly. Comes with a proprietary data cable, not standard usb. Also is mains driven. Does run hot and I leave the lid open in use. I don’t want to keep plugging drives in and out so bought one for each of my backup drives

A very rugged bit of gear. I actually have just bought another one as it was on sale. I bought a load of server enterprise drives for cheap a while back and used it often to transfer data from those and other different drives. This enclosure is excellent and will NOT skip a beat. It is the Anker of Enclosures, a decent well made product. Little did I know a single one of these drives is now worth more than what I paid for for the set! I felt to put these as backup drives and one a hot external. I have a file server and ran out of drive connectors as it is a cheapo Celeron board. Not wanting to upgrade the motherboard just yet for a file server I popped one of these to the USB-3 port with one of these drives. It has been in use constantly and has had zero issues and does not skip a beat. I would trust this over a cheaper one and I have had corruption from cheaper units where a USB drive failed, I plugged in the backup drive to find that was corrupted by the cheaper enclosure requiring that I use the filesystem journal to recover (ExFAT would have been screwed in this case, meaning going to the offsite backup). The enclosure does NOT bottleneck allowing full USB 3 speeds. I get better write speeds with this and enterprise HDDs over QLC SSDs with a full cache, which happens often during my workloads, to the point I went back to enterprise HDDs. It has been in use in a rugged high workload environment and has not skipped a beat. The only bad bit: When using enterprise drives during very long writes, these drives get HOT, to the point they can be uncomfortable to hold naked when run in this unit which has no airflow. I have not observed this with consumer drives. So the one in the file server I leave the cover off to allow better airflow. If you want to use this with an enterprise drive, I would drill a few air holes for breathing. I think UGreen should add a tiny little fan for if you wish to use enterprise drives, but my usecase can sometimes result in 3+ TB of writes in a single session, so its a heavy usecase. All in all, a wonderful product that is both suited to consumer and prosumer use, though some caveats with the latter.

Very good price and easy to use. Insert hard drive plug in to mains and computer and away you go. Quite well made but my only slight complaint is that the lid does not lock very firmly and slides open when the caddy is picked up. A bit of tape sorts the problem but doesn't look too good! Apart from this minor carp I can fully recommend this caddy.

Been using this for my external drive from my PC to connect it to my Mac. Installing my hard drive inside it was very easy as it also comes with instructions in case you need them. I replaced the cable it came with as I needed one that connected to USB C whilst this was a standard USB 3.0, so I won't say this is a negative as this was purely for my needs. The enclosure is made from plastic, but that's to be expected as there's no need to use high quality materials for the enclosure as the price would go up more. What matters is that it works for what it is intended for. When not in use, you can safely eject the hard drive on your PC/Mac and then turn it off on the enclosure to prevent it from starting up when not needed. Also, this being from UGREEN, I knew I could trust it as I've bought many things from them as they've always been reliable.

I had very specific requirements which led to me purchasing this, but in short the main reason I got it is because it was the only SATA mount I could find on Amazon that was mains powered rather than bus powered. This was essential because I have a 2011 iMac with the now redundant Thunderbolt 2 port. These ports do not supply bus power, so if I wanted to take advantage of the higher speeds of Thunderbolt 2 (via an adaptor) and use modern SSD drives, I needed something like this. The plan worked. The unit itself is quite large, owing to the fact that it also accommodates both 3.5" and 2.5" drives. I only use the smaller size SSD drive, but this actually means there is more air around it so aiding in cooling. It's all very simple to assemble and it's plug and play. No technical expertise is required, it's no more complicated than setting up any kind of disk drive from the olden days! It comes with a 12v mains supply (with 13amp UK plug on the one I bought here in the UK). There is also a USB 3 cable - configured with USB-B on the unit side and USB-A to plug the device into a computer (or in my case a Thunderbolt 2 adaptor). There is power button and a blue LED to indicate the mains power is on. I'm not a very technical person in terms of specs and benchmark tests etc, and I'm sure there are other reviewers who will provide that data. Suffice to say, there is a noticeable difference in the speed of this setup compared to the old HDD I had plugged into the slow USB 2 ports on the iMac. Essentially I've upgraded an old mac to a modern standard. (I'll also be replacing the internal boot drive with an SSD, but that's another story). Another benefit of this, is that I can switch out the SSD drive I bought with it to other drives. For example, the old internal HDD drive I'm taking out of the Mac, can now be used as an external drive for backups etc. If I need to buy more SSD drives in the future, I can save money and just get internal SATA ones rather than the more expensive USB-C external drives. All in all, I'm really happy with this set-up. I've revived an old iMac which was on the verge of redundancy, and have given myself lots of neat options for future memory expansion. And it wasn't exactly expensive!

I purchased this to use with a WD Green 3.5 inch HDD, and this has worked absolutely perfectly. The required cables come with the enclosure, it is light and feels of good quality, and did exactly as was required. No complaints!

Very good

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Looks okay. Tried them, working well. Thanks for the fast delivery too.

This was a completely painless process - the enclosure is really sturdy and clean looking. I’m using this for a home file server with a 8tb HDD inside and I’ve had absolutely 0 issues with it ! Great price , great product 100% recommend !

Bought this to replace 9 year old enclosure. The product came in a nice quality packing with an usb 3.0 cable and power supply. The product is designed well and simple to install. It holds the HDD in place with rubber foam support, no screws for installation. The finishing is good and feels like an expensive enclosure. Looks nice on my desk. It's made of quality plastic. I am very satisfied with this enclosure.