Sabrent Hard Drive Enclosure, Lightning Fast Transfer Speeds 5Gbps, SATA to USB HDD Enclosure for 2.5 3.5 inch SSD HDD Disks - 22TB, USB Cable Included, Tool-free Hard Drive Docking Station (EC-KSL3)

It's a great product I us it to put my hard with all my songs i take it every gig.

This is an enclosure to take a 3.5" HDD and allow it to be connected via USB.The drive has a 12V DC centre-positive barrel jack to power it, and connects via a USB Type-B connector.Whilst Type-B is pretty uncommon, a Sabrent-branded USB-B male to USB-A male cable is included, and it feels like an extremely high-quality cable.The enclosure itself is made of metal, and it's pretty thick too - the entire thing feels very strong and sturdy.There are holes in the back of the device, however there is so little room around a 3.5" HDD that airflow is going to be basically non-existent anyway.The metal design does make the device better for heat dissipation than other enclosures I have used though.Getting a HDD in might look difficult as there's not too much room, however I found it very easy to get my drive in, and I didn't feel like I was doing anything that could damage my drive at all.The enclosure also has four four screw holes in its sides so that you can screw in the HDD to keep it fixed in place, and screws and a small screwdriver are included with the drive - Note that the enclosure includes four screws of both 6-32 UNC and M3.This is fantastic, as I really dislike enclosures where the drive can rattle around inside the enclosure, as that can weaken or break the SATA connectors - that can't happen here, the Sabrent enclosure holds the drive perfectly.There is also a dedicated power switch on the end of the device next to the power input, which is fantastic.I really like this, as you can push it into somewhere such that only the end is accessible, or stack several enclosures on top of each other, and still have full control.There is a button on the top of the device that has what looks to be a power symbol on it, but it isn't a power button. Instead pushing that is what allows you to slide the top cover off and open the enclosure. I feel a better symbol could have been chosen, but once you know what it does it's fine, and since the drive inside is screwed in it's not like it can fall out when you take the cover off or anything.Since I was using a mechanical hard drive, I wasn't able to max out the USB 3.0 connection, but the enclosure was able to keep up with HDD doing 200MB/s for the 43 hours it took me to do a full write+read cycle on the drive I had inside.The enclosure did get very hot during this time, hotter than my other enclosures, but that's obviously good - it's better the enclosure gets hot because it's actually dissipating heat from the drive inside and keeping it cool, rather than the enclosure staying cool because the drive inside it can't dissipate heat and thus the drive gets extremely hot.The enclosure does have an LED activity light, which will blink constantly if the drive is active. I personally found this to be quite annoying, and would prefer a constant light rather than a blinking one.I would like to see versions of this with a USB-A and USB-C connector rather than the uncommon USB-B, but other than the blinking activity LED and the poor choice of symbol on the enclosure opening button, I really can't find any faults with it.Overall, I paid £31 for this enclosure, which is a lot for a HDD enclosure, but as far as enclosures go it's basically perfect.

My only bugbear with it is that the AC adapter obscures a parallel socket on my multiway.

Good for heat dissipation, good performance. Nice dual LEDs. It worked with a 24TB drive

Simple basic HDD case. Works well with included power supply and usb cable.

I have a few of these now, although with different brand names stamped on them.They are well put together, but you have to laugh at the "Tool Free" claim when you open the packaging and find a mini screwdriver.Just dont put HGST data centre drives in them, those buggers run HOT.

I purchased a different Sabrent enclosure but I found that it would lock up during sustained transfers with a 16TB Seagate drive.Sabrent support recommended this model instead for drives up to (and including) 20TB in size. I've not had the previous problems with this enclosure.The main body is metal and the tray is ABS. It will get warm after continued use but not unduly. I wouldn't recommend using it in a confined space since the enclosure has no active cooling.The LED is bright and changes colour based on activity, basically a combined power and disk use indicator ,

Delivery was, as ever, quick and efficient. Unfortunately, I was not able to connect my Western Digital WD Caviar 1200 hard drive to the item so had to return it. It occurs to me there might have been a wire which could have connected the two devices but I have no idea where I could find one! Such is life.