DiGiYes USB 3.0 to 2.5" / 3.5" HDD and SSD SATA Hard Drive Converter Adapter Cable with Power Supply

Really is as simple as plug-and-play. Bright blue led on top of the unit show's it's powered. Not really sure what else you could do to improve this, maybe make it out of metal or something? Either way, it works just fine - so I'm a happy little camper :-) !!

I initially tried to save money by buying one of the cheaper ones without a power cable and it didn't work. The cheaper ones can't draw enough power to run a drive so save yourself time and just get a powered version first time around. The previous one couldn't run a 320 gig drive, this one is powering a 1TB drive very nicely. And before anyone says, yes both drives were 2.5"

Works as advertised. I got around 100MB / sec write speed, and 300MB / sec read speed from a laptop SSD hard drive. Using the power adaptor, I successfully got it working with a full size 3.5 inch SATA desktop hard drive and also a DVD drive.Construction quality seems a little erratic. Mine rattled precariously within its enclosure, with about 1 mm of 'give' when testing the wobble. That kind of stuff bothers me !! I was contemplating returning it for a replacement, but in the end decided to glue it in two places (UHU glue to the edges of the power socket and SATA junctions). Now it no longer wobbles. Took an extra half an hour of my time, which I shouldn't have had to spend. Anyway, it works still, and there is pleasingly less wobble when connected to a hard drive.

This adapter is perfect for accessing and transferring files from SATA HDD and SSD drives. As I have upgraded my PC and Laptops over the years, I have ended up with a collection of hard drives containing old information. This easy to use adapter allows me to access, and change, the content on these drives.It works with both PCs and Macs straight out of the box - no need to install any special software or drivers.It includes a power adapter which is required when you are using it with a larger 3.5" hard driver. I have successfully used this adapter for smaller 2.5" SSD drives without the power adapter without any issues.Unlike many other similar adapters, this uses USB 3. USB 3 provides higher read and write speeds - especially useful when you are using it with a SSD. USB 2 updaters are not able to fully utilise the high speeds a SSD provides, instead limiting you to the slower USB 2 speeds.The packaging is easy to open, and allows you to neatly place the adapter back into the box for easier storage.I recommend this for anybody wanting to access the content on SATA 2.5" and 3.5" hard drives - especially for those who those with a SSD, who can use take advantage of the USB 3 speeds.

I got this today very quick delivery , I attached an old 500gb hard drive from an old pc which still had an operating system on it , drive did not show up in my computer but was showing in disk management as offline because it has a signature collision with another disk , this is not a problem with your DIGIYes as it works fine to resolve this see below1) Make sure your disk is attached to DiGiYes with power supply on and usb cable attached to the pc2) use diskpart on command prompt3) list disk4) select disk x x = disk number5) type uniqueid disk it will give you a number and make a note of the number as in below, do this for each disk numberdisk 0 c820c821disk 1 b62dd832disk 2 c820c8216) you will see disk 0 and disk 2 have the same id number7) type list disk 2 then enter8) then type uniqueid disk id=c820c829 i changed the 1 to a 9 at the end as disk 2 had same id as disk 1 then press enter9) load disk management ,As the drive will still show as offline ,right click where it says disk 2 to the left of the blue bar and click Online , your disk will now be ready to use.10) All disk numbers i have used are from my pc , your disk numbers may be different11) If your not sure on reading this , use this utube link for step by step video [...]

Works very well, I took files off 3 old SATA drives that I have replaced in the past.Plug and play and very fast for a USB device.

The delivered power supply did not fit the delivered adapter. Since I already had a supply that would fit and had earlier gone through the hassle of "next day" delivery taking 6 days, and I really needed to use it, so I didn't complain again.Having said that the adapter seems to work fine.

Works as described - no problems so far (only used it with 2.5" drives at the moment).