USB 3.0 Hard Drive Disk External Enclosure Case for 3.5" SATA HDD & SSD, Tool-free Installation, Support UASP & 8TB Drives

The enclosure comes nicely packed in a presentation box. The box contains the drive enclosure, power supply, USB 3.0 lead, set of 4 drive screws and a guarantee card. The guarantee is for 12 months. There are no instructions supplied but if you do require instructions then this probably isn’t the right product for you anyway.The enclosure box is quite large at 180mm x 115mm x 35mm. It’s not the most attractive case I’ve ever seen but it is very functional. The top cover slides off for quick access to the drive bay. No screws to undo. There is a solitary SATA III plug in the corner of the bay. Fitting a 3.5-inch drive is very easy indeed. Simply slide the drive in with the manufacturers label on top. Push all the way in until you hear the drive snap on to the plug. A 2.5-inch drive isn’t quite so easy as you have slide the drive, with the manufacturers label on top, over to the right before pushing it home on the SATA plug. There are 4 drive screws supplied if you wish to secure either size drive into place.Once your drive is fitted you can slide the top cover back on the enclosure. Now insert the power supply plug into the socket on the enclosure and plug the other end into the mains power. Then insert one end of the USB 3.0 lead into the enclosure and the other end into your computers USB 3.0 port. You can use a USB 2 port but expect much slower performance. Finally, press the power button on the enclosure and your computer should instantly recognise the new drive and assign it a drive letter. Fairly straight forward.As far as overall performance is concerned, you may not get the same drive performance as you would if you connected the drive directly to a SATA III port inside your computer. I have run some tests on two different drives so you can compare the performances’. One is a standard 4TB HDD and the other is a 120GB SSD. On both types of drives there is a drop in performance on the random read and write speeds. Sequential reads on the other hand are very similar and sometimes even faster. Performance on the SSD is more significantly affected. None of these figures show anything that I would be worried about. In real life scenarios I didn’t feel any real differences in general use.Overall, I am very pleased with this drive enclosure. At the moment they’re selling it at £18.99 and this offers excellent value for money. As I said it might not be the prettiest but it’s quality through and through and does the job I require of it.I hope you found my review helpful.

Over the years I've gathered a collection of old 3.5 and 2.5 inch HD drives as I've upgraded the storage capacity of old PCs. Rather than throw these away, I kept hold thinking I'd find a use, the only problem being finding a suitable and reasonable cost external housing for them. And that's where the Eaxer USB 3.0 HDD External Enclosure comes in. It's a very simple way to make use of spare HDDs, adding additional storage capacity to existing computers.The design of the unit is, to be honest, functional rather than stylish but the black plastic materials feel like they are of reasonably good quality. To open the enclosure, the case lid simply slides off to reveal the inside. This can accommodate either a 3.5 or a 2.5" SATA HDD and these simply push onto the SATA connector mounted at one end. Owing to its additional weight, a 3.5" drive can be further secured by means of four screws - the screw holes in the case perfectly matching those in the drive I used. There are no additional mounting screws for 2.5" drives. Once installed, the case lid simply slides back in place and closes with a satisfying click.In use, the enclosure worked flawlessly. Using the supplied cable, it can be connected to either a fast USB 3.0 port or a slower USB 2.0 port with the expected drop in data throughput. I tried both ports and both methods work with no problems whatsoever.So, for the asking price of £18.99, the Eaxer USB 3.0 Hard Drive Disk External Enclosure is functional, offering good performance and value for money.

This USB 3.0 hard drive enclosure comes boxed with all you need to access any bare SATA drive. Included, is the enclosure, power supply, connecting USB 3.0 cable, 4 hard drive screws to secure your 3.5 inch drive and a 12 month warranty card. The enclosure is made of plastic and is very light. Once your drive is in place, the lid slides on and closes with a satisfying click. The enclosure supports both 3.5in and 2.5in SATA hard drives, but if your looking to use this as a portable device, only a 3.5 inch drive can be secured in place at the bottom with the supplied screws (which is nice to see). A 2.5in drive cannot be secured in place as none of the screw holes line up. In saying all that, if your just going to use this enclosure on your desk, next to your computer then the screws are really not needed and you can swap drives in seconds. The unit powers on with just one press of the power button, but it requires you to hold the power button for 3 seconds to power the unit off. This is to avoid accidentally powering down the unit while the drive is being accessed, which could in turn, lead to data loss. While the drive is powered there are two very small lights on the enclosure, one power light and one hard disk light which flashes as the drive is being accessed. As regards to the speeds, when working with USB 3.0 I tend to find the bottlenecks are more to do with the hardware you are using than the USB 3.0 limits. I placed an old SATA hard drive in the enclosure and transferred some files using USB 3.0 to another mechanical drive and hit speeds of 24Mb/s, but files from the same drive transferred to my SSD drive were nearly 4 times as fast at 92Mb/s. So no complaints about it's USB 3.0 speed capabilities. Overall if your like me and salvage old SATA drives from broken laptops and desktop computers, this is a good way of putting them to good use with this very capable enclosure. If you have found my review helpful, please click below, thanks.