ORICO USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure for 3.5/2.5 Inch SATA Hard Drives/SSD Up to 20 TB, 3.5'' Tool-Free HDD Enclosure with 12V/2A Power Supply and UASP Acceleration (3588US3)

Simple, Sturdy, and Perfect for Reviving Old Drives I picked up the ORICO 3588US3 enclosure to reuse a few old 3.5" hard drives from retired PCs, and it’s been excellent so far. The tool-free design really does make installation effortless — you just slide the cover open, drop the drive in, and close it up. It connected instantly to Windows without any driver setup, and the blue LED indicator makes it easy to tell when the drive is active. Transfer speeds over USB 3.0 are right where they should be — I was seeing around 150 MB/s on a standard HDD, which is plenty for backups and file transfers. The included power adapter feels solid and delivers stable power for full-size drives, and the USB cable is a reasonable length for desktop use. The lightweight ABS shell isn’t fancy, but it’s heat-resistant and seems durable enough for sitting on a desk or shelf. There are a couple of small quirks to note: the top cover slides a bit loosely if you move it around a lot, and the included foam pad helps secure the drive better inside. Also, it lacks active cooling, so if you plan to leave it running 24/7, give it some ventilation space. Bottom line: this ORICO 3.5" SATA enclosure is a simple, inexpensive way to breathe new life into old hard drives or create a large external backup. Easy setup, dependable performance, and solid value under twenty bucks.

I used this to house a WD internal HDD that I wanted to use as a file backup. I transferred 3tb from a WD Passport to the new WD HDD using Robocopy. Both were plugged into USB 3.0 ports and I saw 80-120 mbs read and write speeds throughout the entire transfer. It took around 9 hours to complete with zero errors or issues. Some of these enclosures are built so cheaply that they limit the transfer speeds by half even if it's using a USB 3.0 connection. This one doesn't do that. The limiting factor in my transfer speeds was the USB 3.0 limits and that's perfect. The 3.5" disk fit nicely into the enclosure and the ports had a nice snug fit like they should. There are two small foam pads that are included. Take the thick one and place it on top of the disk so when the lid is closed the disk can't bounce up or down. Take the thin one and cut in half, then stick them to each other so it's double the thickness and squeeze that into the gap at the bottom of the disk. That will stop the drive from sliding away and losing the port connection. Perfect fit, very snug, feels secure. I would recommend it based on my experience. Zero failures for 9 hours of straight transfers is a pretty good test I think. The entire enclosure acts as a heat sink air fin so as long as there is open air around the enclosure there is no possibility of it overheating. I laughed when I saw a review of some clown drilling holes in this thing for ventilation. That is not how disk drives overheat nor how they dissipate their heat LOL. Nine hours, three terabytes, enclosure was cool to the touch. If you need it buy it.

I purchased this product in hopes of being able to access files off of my five-year-old desktop that died nearly two years ago. Initially, I was hesitant to try this because I thought that the hard drive in the PC had failed and I’d just be wasting money. I was pleasantly surprised by the Orico 3.5” Hard Drive Enclosure. The package comes with a few items inside. You get the enclosure, a power cable, a USB 3.0 cable, an instruction manual in both Chinese and English, and two foam strips. I believe these require external power because of the 3.5” drive. A 2.5” drive in an enclosure does not need external power. The instruction manual is accurate and helpful, but it is for new drives. You do not have to follow this manual if you’re using an old drive from a PC as I was. The build quality of this enclosure is good. The material is a very sturdy plastic and the top of the case is metal, or at least feels like it’s metal. The bottom slides off and clicks into place with ease, but not easy enough that you should fear it sliding off unexpectedly. There is an LED power indicator on the front beside the power button. I took off the side of my old PC and blew out the immense amount of dust it had gathered. I pulled out the 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM drive, blew off the dust that was remaining on it, and slid it into the enclosure. There is extra space on the bottom and left side of the enclosure once the 3.5 drive is in. This worried me because it may become loose; however, Orico provides two foam or foam-like strips with adhesive on the back. I just used one of the two on the bottom and the hard drive did not move inside when I tried to move it. Using the provided cables, I plugged the drive into a socket and one of my USB 3.1 (my PC doesn’t have any 3.0) type A ports. I pressed the power button and the LED indicator came on. I pulled up Windows Explorer and I was shocked. All of my files from my five-year-old desktop were there. I’ve only had this running for 6 hours as of my typing of this review so I cannot speak for long-term use, but if anything changes I will update this. Performance wise I’ve not done any true testing, but I do have some figures to look at. Please keep in mind I am using a five-year-old hard drive that has been sitting for two years. I was transferring all the documents, pictures, music, etc. from the Seagate in the enclosure to the Toshiba HDD in my desktop. During 5-10 GB transfers, I saw transfer speeds of up to 220 MB/s. There was some fluctuation, but I never saw the speed go below 130 MB/s. (Attached is an image of the result from CrystalDiskMark after format completed). Here’s a bit of advice for anyone who may not be too tech savvy and is hoping to do what I did. My drive had both a system partition and data partition since it was the only drive in an old PC. This annoyed me. Also, many folders and files could not be accessed whatsoever because of the security used by Windows. For me, this was fine. I didn’t lose anything that I didn’t already have backed up elsewhere. I could still access my documents, pictures, music, downloads, and could even see what programs I had installed and all their files. I’m currently formatting the drive because of the partitions and the inaccessible/unable to delete files. It isn’t hard and anyone can do it. Lifewire has great guides on how to remove the partitions and format the drive if you don’t already know how to on Windows machines. Make sure you back up all of the files you can/want to keep before you begin the process. Deleting the partitions and formatting the drive permanently deletes all the files on the drive. It takes a while (I’m currently at hour 3 and it’s at 95%), but it is worth it. It deletes the system files you may not be able to delete and frees up that space. I would recommend this product. It was one of the cheaper choices that I saw here on Amazon and it does its job well. I'm happy with it and hope to be happy with it for at least a year.

Its bascially easy to use. I have several external enclosures already from NextStar that Ive been happy with , but those seem to have faded. So I got this one. The case lies flat & the cover slides open easily and the drive connects easily as well but it wiggles inside just the slightest bit that I dont like, as there's nothing else inside to lock it in tight. There are no screws. It has two foam stickers I assume are for it to rest on , but I prefer the ushaped "foot" so it can stand up vertically, but that doesnt hurt the performance. The last thing is the power cord... Waay too short. Alot of external devices seem to do this & its kind of a pain if you dont have an outlet right next to the computer. I do actually but its up on a table thats too high to reach facing towards me In general it does its job,although because of the short power cord, I have to face it away from my chair and cant see the power light come on, on the front. But it works, so I'm keeping it!

I had a 2 TB internal hard drive that I was not using and this enclosure enabled me to make use of the hard drive as an external backup drive for my lap top. The setup was simple: Just drop in the drive close the top of the enclosure and connect to the computer via USB and it is plug and play. Excellent product and well made. I would definitely recommend. I liked it so much I purchased a second one for my other computer.

I've bought several enclosures in the past in order to gain access to my old 10TB Drive that i had since High school and everyone that i received didn't work. However, this one was the exception because it worked perfectly after i hooked my old drive to it. So, in my opinion. This is an awesome company.

I have 2 external drives that I have used for a number of years, and they started giving me problems. I order the Orico external hard drive case and it solved the problem. Very easy to install, came at a good price and was delivered in a short period of time. The first one worked so well that I ordered the second one.

Well, it's easy to use. Slide off cover, slide SATA disk drive onto standard connectors, replace cover. Plug in. Fire up. However... it shuts off. Not sure when or based on what parameters, but it shuts off after a while. I'm running on 2011 iMac with macOS Sierra, so first I wrote a cron job to ls (read its directory) every 5 minutes. That didn't work. So I beefed up the activity that's run every 5 minutes to "cd /Volumes/old-sata; touch x; ls -l >> keepalive" - simple disk activity every 5 minutes, including both reads and writes. It still shut down overnight. And this morning it wouldn't start up when I pressed the click-on-click-off switch. When I got home from work, it fired up just fine, but now I'm concerned about enclosure reliability. I got it to put a "small" (1TB) "old" (2009) drive in, and I'm using it strictly for temporary / tertiary backup storage, so it will likely meet my needs, but I don't like that it didn't power up this morning. Not a confidence builder. Nit: all the electronics are at one end. So power and USB cables and switch - and power indicator light - are all on "back" end. So you can't place it with the wires out back and the power light visible in front. Nothing but plastic up front. Wasn't really sure where to put the little (1.5" x .75" x .20") foam pad. So it's sitting next to it behind my computer. I've not had problems with the disk drive vibration dislodging it from the internal connectors. Update (3/23/2018) Downgrading to 1 star. Two days in a row now, this device has failed to power up at the start of the day. Unacceptable. Unfortunately, the Amazon "return window" is only 30 days, and alas, I purchased it in January. Looks like $20 down the toilet. Sigh. Update (3/29/2018) Upgraded to 3 stars. I ordered another drive enclosure ( Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drive Lay-Flat Docking Station with Built-in Cooling Fan for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD, SSD [Support UASP and 6TB] (EC-DFFN) ) and encountered the exact same results. Started off working just fine on the Mac, then shut off and would not turn back on unless it felt like it. Did some oogling around and found that this is a common - and unsolved - problem on the Mac. Returning this one, with reason being "does not match description on Web site," which it doesn't. Both Amazon and the package say it works on Macs. Maybe it's an incompatibility between my old Mac with its USB 2.0 interfaces and this USB 3. device. I don't have time or inclination to solve it. I just want it to work, eh? The Orico has been running non-stop on my PC for several days now. Blue light stays on whether the PC is awake, asleep, or hibernating. Disk powers up/down as expected due to activity or lack thereof. Maybe I should give it 4 stars, since the Mac problem doesn't seem to be its fault. But I need it to work on the Mac, really.

تنفع وتلبي الحاجة

Does exactly as it says on the box!. Fitted a 4tb drive, and works straight away. Its left on 24/7 and the drive powers off after a while to save power and hdd life. Perfect for external hdd backup drives. Probably not so good for things such as nas and xbox/ps as it does auto power off and there is no way to change that feature. Even under heavy use, the drive and case does not seem to get too warm, with the hdd reporting only 42c (wd blue drive). This can be run from any 12v supply, and i have powered this directly from my pc power supply, and am not using the included mains power supply (i just cut the end off the included psu and use the barrel jack and a 3a in line fuse to one of the molex outputs on my pc psu).

O case é excelente. O grande diferencial dos demais é a chave liga/desliga, de pressionar, bem melhor que as demais chaves dos concorrentes. Estou satisfeitíssimo, valeu o pagamento pelo maior preço.

De lujo, funciona muy bien. Muy recomendable

HDDのインストールは簡単でした。転送速度は早く感じます。 放熱はHDD上部のパネルが金属板になっていて熱を逃がします。 ただし、ほかの部分はプラスチックで密閉構造のため発熱量の多いHDDの使用は注意が必要かと思います。 商品説明に転倒防止設計とうたっていますが、小さいラバーシートで押さえているだけなのでどの位効果があるのかは不明です。 製品は安定していて、3週間以上常用のPCにつなげて使用していますが問題はありません。