SATA to USB Adapter, USB 5Gbps, 2.5in SATA III (USB3S2SAT3CB)

I bought this adapter to access an old SSD and transfer files to my laptop, and it worked straight out of the box. There was no complicated setup required—just connect the drive and plug the USB cable into the computer. The adapter feels well made and provides a stable connection, with no dropouts or issues during file transfers. It recognised both SSDs and 2.5-inch hard drives quickly on my system. Data transfer speeds are impressive when used with a USB 5Gbps port, making it useful for backups, file recovery, cloning drives, or accessing old storage devices. The compact cable design makes it highly portable and easy to keep in a laptop bag or desk drawer without taking up much space. Compatibility has been excellent, working smoothly with different drives and operating systems without requiring additional software. A dependable, easy-to-use adapter that makes connecting and transferring data from SATA drives quick and hassle-free.

This wire is really good for my Crucial BX500 SATA SSD 2TB, 2.5" Internal SSD. (yes I know, it says internal), but because I like to "go on the move" with storage, this wire helps me a lot with that. The wire has been through so many travels and not a single issue with it. I do have it in a case. The wire is really easy to "use". What I mean by that is - you just connect your drive and then plug the other end into a laptop or PC (or phone/tablet) and works perfectly. It fit's pefectly in bags, just be carful to not bend the connector if you keep it connected to your storage drive. It might look "long" and flexible but that is the wire, not the connector pins which you can bend pretty easily if you are careless. Easy to connect to any storage drive so long as you are not forceful with it.

Update Nov 2018 I've been using a couple of these at home, and found them very useful and versatile. Perfect for connecting SSDs to a PC for formatting, etc., and work extremely well in combination with cheap 32Gb SATA SSDs with Raspberry Pi 3B and 3B+ computers. They will also power 2.5 SATA hard drives, should you wish to use them. I'm a teacher, and recently acquired for my classroom a complete set of Raspberry Pi 3Bs. I use 20+ of these cables with 32Gb SSDs to provide the working environment for my pupils. These cables *just work*, and make the task of getting the pupils up and running at the start of each lesson really easy. Top recommendation. Great piece of kit. There may be cheaper alternatives on Amazon, but I'm sticking with these for the next classroom I fit out. ---- Purchased to allow the connection of a cheap 30Gb SSD to a Raspberry Pi 3B, to act as the OS drive for an experimental server. Worked flawlessly, and even can work with a 500Gb 2.5" SATA drive I had kicking around -- powered from the Pi, which in turn was powered by a USB to microUSB cable from a monitor! This, plus a cheap SSD make the Pi an excellent and reliable tool -- I cannot rely on microSD cards for longevity, and USB flash drives, though an acceptable substitute, are not as good as an SSD and one of these cables. Highly recommended.

I have not tried booting using this adapter, but I have successfully created a bootable hard drive with this using grub-install on Ubuntu. I no longer need to have a SATA cable hanging out of the PC case to prepare bootable hard drives :) This is fantastic because the last SATA to USB adapter, identified in dmesg as: JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. JM20337 Hi-Speed USB to SATA & PATA Combo Bridge - just showed a Grub error 2 instead of booting. What happens is the cheaper SATA to USB adapters detect and report the wrong sector size of the hard drive. This is generally not a big problem as it only affects the first 512B of the hard drive but is a problem if you are creating bootable hard drives. To circumvent this you need to create 512B-sectored loopback backed by some data, doing things like kpartx -a /dev/loop0 - basically a huge pain in the ass. This adapter however, identified as Product: ASMT1051 Manufacturer: asmedia SerialNumber: 12345678A071 successfully creates bootable hard drives without any workarounds so thumbs up! Performance wise however, it takes over 4 minutes to prepare a hard drive using this vs 3 minutes to prepare connecting to an eSATA on the motherboard.

I have about 5 of these - they work for booting Raspberry Pis from SSDs.

I bought the Startech USB to SATA cable to clone my Samsung 700Z laptop gard drive to a Sandisk Ultra II 960GB SSD. I connected the cable to the SSD and to the USB on my laptop any although I had the 'new hardware sound' but no drive appeared under 'my computer'. At first I thought like some reviewers that this cable wouldn't work with my laptop as the USB didn't provide enough power. So I tried it in a desktop and the same. Both with windows 10. I then tried a Dell tablet and again no joy. I did the standard google search and there were two things I needed to do. 1) Initialise the new SSD and 2) Format the new SSD. After doing both (google it to see how) the drive was now visible. I downloaded Macrium cloning software (the free version) and set in off while I went to plan tennis. Two hours later all cloned and no errors. It took about 10 minutes to remove the back of the laptop and replace the HDD with the SDD. WOW... what a difference. The laptop boots in less than 5 seconds and works so quickly. No errors, no problems, perfect. The lead and SSD are both fab, I had no problems with an old laptop running Windows 10. No drivers to download, it just worked (though remember to initialise and format the SSD. Not a full format, just a quick format. Good luck!

I have bought about ten of these cables, and they are fantastic. I've used them with drives from various vendors, like Kingston and PNY, and they offer UASP support and great reliability. The chipset on mine is ASMedia. Particularly useful for the Raspberry Pi. Look no further.

It's a pretty simple product so I can't go into that much depth with this review. The first thing to say is that it functions perfectly well. It fits nicely and the hard drive connects as well as it did with my old eSATA (now redundant thanks to new motherboard). Here come speed tests: 465mb exe file from HDD using this cable to internal SSD: min = 4.42s (how is this even possible?) max = 15.00s average = 12.404s average transfer rate = 37.49mb/s 465mb exe file from internal SSD to HDD using this cable: min = 17.10s (how is this even possible?) max = 17.22s average = 17.17s average transfer rate = 27.08mb/s It feels reasonable well made although obviously they haven't made any effort to make it aesthetically pleasing, but that doesn't really matter. It feels like it won't break when left behind my computer for years.

Funciona perfeitamente

In gebruik om een ssd aan een Raspberry Pi (4B) aan te sluiten. Doet prima zijn werk. De kabel is wel nogal stijf zodat het soms wat onhandig is om een bocht te maken zoals je wil.

同じ様なSATA USB 3.0のやっすい変換ケーブルを買って使った所一か月持たずSSDを認識しなくなったのでこちらを購入し三か月ほど使っていますが特に問題なく使えているので助かっています。 やはり安い物は安いなりの理由があるんですね・・・

Ottimo adattatore funziona alla perfezione

Muy bueno para conectar discos sata de 2,5 directamente al puerto usb, buena velocidad de transmisión de datos.