SABRENT mSATA to 2.5 enclosure adapter, super fast Data transfer, mSATA Converter to SATA III Aluminum (EC-MSSA)

this product suite the new small size SSD

Excellent product works perfectly

I bought this to go with a 240Gb Kingston MSATA drive. The package includes a small screwdriver and all the screws you need to assemble.Use the included tab to pull the enclosure apart, pop your MSATA module in, and secure with the two larger screws. Then pop the top back on, and use the four smaller screws to screw the case together.Once in my system it needed Disk Manager (computer manager, then select disk management on the left) to format it and assign it a drive letter.Benchmarking using Samsung Magician gives it a Sequential Read of 539 MB/s & Write of 523MB/s this is about the same as a 250Gb Samsung Evo 850 which scored 549 and 528 respectively. Random IOPS were down, with Read and Write at 67138 & 67871 vs the Samsung at 93994 and 85449. Bear in mind most of this will be the MSATA drive choice, as opposed to the enclosure, but thought it worthwhile comparing so you can see it runs at a good rate.For comparison, a 4Tb Western Digital traditional drive in the same benchmark, scored 168MB/s and 165MB/s and Random IOPS were 488 & 244 ... so a lot lot slower than the SSD.So for £10 you really can't ask much more, it's a good enclosure with the screws and tool needed to fit, and gives good performance.

I had bought an mSata SSD card and wanted to be able to place it inside a laptop that had a 2.5" mechanical drive with Sata connection. So this enclosure seemed the ideal solution. I went for this particular model as I thought that a metal enclosure would be better at dissipating any heat generated rather than a plastic variety. This all-metal enclosure was slightly fiddly to open but there was a strap to assist in pulling it apart. Inside there were a set of 6 screws - 2 large screws to locate the mSata card and 4 smaller screws to seal the enclosure, and a small screwdriver. At the moment I am using the setup as an external drive connected to the laptop via a Sata to USB 3 cable (Sabrent) incorporating handy LED lights that let me see when the card is working. My first task is to clone the mechanical hard-drive to the mSata card with this external setup and then swap it for the mSata enclosure. The enclosure is exactly 7mm high x 7cm wide x 10cm long. I am happy with the installation and the price point is fair.

My requirements for this device were twofold, firstly to act as a holder for a msata drive to allow me to clone an existing msata in my NUC computer to a new one. Secondly, I wanted to use the holder to house the old msata, so I could install it in another computer. Although cloning should have been quite a simple process I found it was not so simple using Windows, form my dual boot Windows/Ubuntu system. I tried several recommended programs, however, all seemed to fail, so I then went on to using Ubuntu, and just three lines of text in the Terminal, which did it easily and simply. I then just replaced the old drive in the NUC with the new cloned drive, and it just worked as though nothing had changed, except it now had a drive with twice the capacity. The old msata drive was then placed in the Sabrent adapter which could then be used as a 2.5” sata drive in another computer. I went for the Sabrent drive for two reason, its construction was of aluminum, and it made a direct connection with the sata interface, and I was not disappointed with my selection, or its performance. Of course purchasing the item via Amazon was quite straight forward, and Store4PC-Europe on Amazon, listed the product in detail, so there was no need to contact them with questions. They even followed up the purchase afterwards asking if I was 100% satisfied, and if not how they could help.

The first thing I have to say is Sabrent is one of the best PC parts suppliers I know. Quite a small California based company, their tech support are good, I get 24 hour email turn around every time. Great little piece of kit, disassemble my Samsung t5 1tb ssd USB external, and slots straight into msata pcb. screws included and handy little screwdriver. Put together and fitted into my Sata drive array, works perfectly. Simple effective. I guess the most positive is, its a tough case, metal I think. So a drop, it will survive and acts like a heatsink better than a plastic case would!

I previously bought an Evo960 mSATA hard drive to upgrade a laptop. Now the laptop has gone to the big laptop heaven in the sky, the hard drive is installed in a desktop thanks to this case.The enclosure seems solid, securely holds the mSATA drive and I now use it as a games drive for my gaming PC.