Why I buy this one ?
- 2.5-inch hard drive enclosure designed to turn a 2.5-inch laptop hard drives into an external storage device
- Complies with ATA/ATAPI-6 specifications
- Case assembles with included screws and screwdriver
- Includes enclosure, carrying case, USB 2.0 cable, driver disk, user manual, screwdriver, and screws
- USB 2.0 connection (backward compatible with USB 1.1 specifications) provides a 480 Mbps transfer rate

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What our customer's say!

"It's very simple to use and works GREAT!!", I purchase this to use my old laptop hard drive. It works great! Open the case and insert HD. That's it. Connect USB cable and rock-n-roll! No problem with it what so ever.

"Great", Works great. My laptop died and I didn't have some info backed-up. This saved my butt!! Very easy and works great.

"Also a good way to get out of mechanical trouble", I had a friend with a dead laptop with a lot of personal items -- tax files, resumes, irreplaceable photos, etc -- left on it. I ordered this hard drive enclosure, transferred her hard drive into the Sabent, and used it to pull off all her personal data and "sanitize" her hard drive of all personal info so she could send the laptop off for repair. Then I replaced the now-sanitized drive into her laptop.
And, since I already had a spare 2.5-inch notebook drive lying around, I now have a nice portable USB hard drive.
It's nice to know the alternative is there in the future, too.

"Data recovery from dying laptop harddrive", I had a laptop harddrive that was dying - it was so bad that the system would no longer boot into Windows XP. I had files on the system that I wanted to recover so I decided to purchase this device.

The harddrive fit perfectly and I was able to mount the drive on another system running Windows Vista - I was then able to recover the data.

"Works well, doesn't need power", I ordered this to use with the hard drive from my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. No hassle, just worked. Comes with a screwdriver and no other tools were needed. It is nice in that it works without an extra power cord.

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"Good product for the price", Attractive little case, and since it was for the small 2.5 inch footprint, it was just the PATA-USB interface logic and small enough to carry in a pocket.

Note for users (maybe a tip, really): most of the time the drive spun up okay on the USB's limited power, but one time it wouldn't spin up and mount, so I held the drive horizontally and gave a minor twist in two directions. This moved the tiny stator just enough to allow the motor to spin up and properly mount to my laptop.

"Works well but be careful when plugging in drive", Check that the drive is not attached to the IDE connector upside down, since there is nothing that indicates which way is up until you attempt to slide on the enclosure. The enclosure won't fit if the drive has been plugged into the connector upside down.

If you test a drive without using the enclosure, as I did, and cannot read the disk, then the drive may be upside down (or set to be a slave, or a master with slave, or the drive or connector might be defective).

First check that the enclosure will slide on as designed. If it does slide on at least you know that it's connected correctly and you've got other problems.

Other than that, the unit is sturdy and once you get the tiny screws in the holes it is easy to assemble. I wouldn't recommend dropping a screw on a shag rug though.

"Great", Very good product. I used this same model at work before so I knew what I was buying. Very good product.

"Didn't fit, documentation unreadable", I don't know why, but the hard drive from my girlfriend's old Toshiba Satellite laptop couldn't quite fit into this enclosure. Perhaps because the laptop was so old, the drives were slightly larger than the current standard? So I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on the fit issue, because obviously it fit for many people. But the documentation is horrible -- practially unintelligible. A poor attempt at translation from... Chinese, perhaps? If you're tech savvy and don't need the instructions, great, but if you're not, you're out of luck. The purpose of the mystifying split USB cable is left unexplained, and there are no instructions for identifying what files need to be extracted from the enclosed CD. Not a good choice for me.

"Bad product", I bought this product for my laptop hard drive and it wouldn't recognize it when i plugged it in to the computer. This product and other products from this maker are not worth the money, it would be better in the long run to just spend an extra 10 dollars.