SABRENT SATA to USB Cable - USB 3.0 to 2.5” SATA I/II/III Hard Drive Adapter - External Converter for SSD/HDD Data Transfer (EC-SSHD)

Disclaimer, this product didn't actually work for me, but I am rating it 5 stars anyway due to the after sales support from Sabrent. I purchased this product to read 4 sn200 u.2 drives I purchased to verify functionality before being placed in a server. If you know about older u.2 tech like the sn200, you will know that these things are insanely power hungry for a drive, consuming over 25watta on startup/run. This product did not work for me because of that, the included adapter can do a max of 24 watts. I contacted Sabrent who immediately opened a case and investigated, we are actually still working back and forth but the experience has been nothing short of incredible... Their techs worked with me and still are months later, they agreed with the issue and are in the process of creating a new product to solve this VERY specific issue even going as far as to purchase drives of their own for internal testing as they did not want to possibly damage mine when I offered them for testing. Sabrent has earned a lifelong customer out of me with this one interaction. Absolutely and seriously impressed..I did confirm functionality with data drives which was nice and the adapter itself is streamlines and smaller than others I've owned. The fast USB connection is nice too. As I said, I'd highly recommend this product even though it technically didn't work for me because of how great Sabrent has been. If you drive draws more than 24w on boot, I would also recommend to wait for the updated version to show up on the market.

Good new is the product works. Bad news is it took me an hour to figure out why it wasn't working. It technically explains in the manual to "Only install the drive when the power is off and the USB cable is disconnected" but doesn't make it clear how to get windows to see the drive (especially for larger drives). I was able to get it to work by connecting the HDD to the adapter first, connect the external power to the adapter, and only then connecting the USB to the computer once the drive had spun up and been running for a minute, and windows finally saw the drive. The issue is that windows doesn't see the device as a USB "device" it sees it as a hard drive. So in order for the adapter to have the hard drive's information it needs time for the drive to spin up connected to the adapter before being plugged into windows. Clearer directions in the manual would be nice but for anyone thinking their drive or adapter is broken, specifically for 3.5" drives.

Back in my computer technician days at a big box store, one of the most requested services was transferring or backing up data from one form of storage (IDE/PATA Hard Disk Drive to SATA Hard Disk Drive / SSDs). We would use a device like this in order to do that work.I recently upgraded my computer's storage devices and needed a way to get the data off. I have another device adapter made by a different manufacturer which for whatever reason I could not get any of my SSDs to be recognized when plugged. I saw this and ordered one. When it came it the next day I plugged up each of my SSDs - instantly recognized - I was able to grab all of my data.Pros:Inexpensive - under 10.00Free Acronis True Image software (do a search for acronis true image software for sabrent)Cons:NoneNote: This will not connect to PATA / IDE or M2 SSDs (again it is not designed nor advertised to do so)

Great device.. in the right setting.Note: Purchased April 10, 2025I used this on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB of RAM. As a storage expert I can share a few details:1. Claims to support UASP and *actually* does for enhanced performance. Verified this independently by doing performance tests with UASP enabled (default) and disabled (manually disabled).2. trim does work properly.# usb-devices | grep -A10 152dP: Vendor=152d ProdID=a578 Rev=02.14S: Manufacturer=SABRENTS: Product=SABRENTS: SerialNumber=<redacted>C: #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=896mAI: If#= 0 Alt= 1 #EPs= 4 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=62 Driver=uasE: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=1024 Ivl=0msE: Ad=04(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=1024 Ivl=0msE: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=1024 Ivl=0msE: Ad=83(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=1024 Ivl=0msDevice ID is 152d:a578 (JMS578 controller).Firmware is 0214, which seems to be the latest public release at the time of the posting (firmware released in 2023).Hope this helps.

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Con: Cannot install Windows using this for the main drive... Kind of for obvious reasons. But I hoped it would work to at least install but not run.

The cable matches the description and will be very useful for future repairs.

Worked perfectly to add an SSD drive to my Raspberry Pi 4.