StarTech.com SATA to USB Cable - USB 3.0 to 2.5” SATA III Hard Drive Adapter - External Converter for SSD/HDD Data Transfer (USB3S2SAT3CB)

The factory original HDD on my Dell Inspiron 5559 laptop (circa 2017) was limping along with 3+ minute boot times and occasional error messages. The machine itself is fine (previously upgraded RAM from 8 to 16mb) so rather than drop a bunch of coin on a new machine, decided to try the upgrade route. Watched a thousand YouTube videos to get ready.Got a 960gb Kingston A400 SDD. Needed a way to connect it to the laptop to clone from the failing HDD. This StarTech cable did the job in a no nonsense, budget friendly way. Used the USB3.0 to 2.5 SATA cable (data + power). Both ends made solid, trouble free connections. The cable and connector moldings seem well made with no obvious flaws or defects.Used a free trial version of Macrium Reflect X software to perform the clone. Everything – including this cable – worked flawlessly.For less than $60 total (the SDD + this cable) was able to give my laptop a new lease on life. Saved hundreds over taking it to a shop or purchasing a new laptop. Will hold on to this cable for the next time.

Exactly what I needed. Moving from a giant tower to a mini pc and did not want to lose my two internal SSD drives, so this worked great. Just plug and play. Easy peasy. Been working great so far.

I had 2 other cheap adapters and they kept giving me bad block errors and timeouts on my SSD's. I thought my drives were going bad and would have to replace them, but after trying this adapter, all the errors and timeouts went away and they worked flawlessly. I don't like the dim amber activity light on this model, but I would rather know my data is safe than have a brighter light.

Just connect it to a USB 3.0 port and, in my case on a ASUS laptop, a USB 2.0 port and it is recognized. Great for an external storage disk or recovering all your data from a permanently crashed computer.

It did work. The problem is not what you expect. It reports to the computer you have a SCSI drive, not for example a Seagate or WD drive. Why is this important? I tried to use Acronis True image software supplied free from Western Digital which requires a WD drive as the source or destination. It did not see the WD drive as my destination, but rather a SCSI drive. So, the software would not work. I was able to use Shadowcopy to copy files over to the new drive. I partitioned my new drive with a C: and D: drive. Shadowcopy was able to copy over the D: (Recovery drive on my HP laptop) to the new D: on the WD drive I bought from Amazon. I took out the old Toshiba drive which crashed on the boot sector, and replaced it with the new WD drive. I booted up the computer, HP's software saw there was no operating system on the C: drive, and let me install it off the D: drive.Make sure you have a bootable backup of your drive on a USB or flash memory device. Otherwise it is a pain. I did not have a bootable backup so I had tell the laptop to format the Toshiba C: . I used F10 or F11 or F2 upon booting up the HP laptop to get to format. I forgot which one. I lost only about 5 letters I wrote. The rest was backed up. After I formated the Toshiba C: drive I then reinstalled Windows 8.1 from the D: (Recovery drive). When it asks you if you want to delete the Recovery drive say NO every time. Just because you make a copy of the Recovery drive or use it, doe not mean you can not use it again and again. Windows 8.1 says you can only make one copy of the Recovery drive. Not true. What I like about Windows 10 is it does not say anything about limiting how many bootable backup copies you can make on USB memory sticks. After I got all my software working correctly on my new WD drive, I created a bootable drive on a 128 GB USB stick. I then used Shadowcopy to copy all my software, excluding Windows to a directory I called backup on the USB stick. Now I have a bootable USB with Windows 10, and all my software and files on it. The Toshiba drive has Windows 8.1 on the C: drive, and I am keeping it as a backup to my USB stick backup. However, after losing the boot sector, I would not use it as my primary drive again.

Great item

I used this cable/adapter to move A LOT of data from an internal drive on a Win10 system to an SSD drive that I subsequently installed as a second internal drive on a new Win11 system. The data transfer went smoothly, zero issues.

Excellent for retrieving data off of a dead laptop with a still operating hard drive. A life saver.