Highlights
Quality
Very pleased with this item did exactly as it said it would
5 drive and internal connections appear to be of decent quality
Packaging/appearance
I grabbed one of these caddies to help out a friend who wanted to reuse the hard drive from her old defunct laptop
Competitiveness
The caddy has a slower usb2 interface and is supplied with a y cable for connection to the host computer
Older laptop drives can be quite power hungry and although i could find single cable usb3 sata caddies on amazon uk it wasn’t c... Read More
Overview
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- This product had a total of 970 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 28 2021.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
That worked fine but reduced the storage on the laptop from 1000 gb to 240gb
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
No instructions but was easy to use
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Older laptop drives can be quite power hungry and although i could find single cable usb3 sata caddies on amazon uk it wasn’t clear if those caddies would be able to power the drive effectively
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The usb2 interface is obviously slower than usb3 but as most laptop drives are 5400rpm drives the interface difference wouldn’t give that much extra of a performance boost to my mind
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Unlike purposemade usbbus powered hard drives there is no real shock protection for the enclosed drive
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Not what i expected as this takes away the option of plugging another item into the front port of the pc
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This was to replace a toolless one sold on amazon which lasted a week