mSATA to 2.5 Inch SATA III Aluminum Enclosure Adapter (EC-MSSA)

FAST, CHEAP, RELIABLE, What more could you want? REVIEW: Sabrent mSATA to 2.5-Inch SATA III Aluminum Enclosure Adapter (EC-MSSA) SUMMARY: Arrived perfect condition, well packaged, easy to use without instructions, performance was on par with what I expected from my MSATA drive. One note is that the picture show the case screws going into the wrong set of holes. (the screws go on the inside set of holes, not the outside as shown in the picture). It even came with a screwdriver. UNBOXING: (see picture) INITIAL IMPRESSIONS: Perfectly met my expectations for the price. I wanted something cheap and quick and that is what I got. I saw a few horror stories in other reviews, but I’m glad I ignored them. Aluminum case to diffuse any heat (not that I found there was any). PERFORMANCE / EASE OF USE: INITIAL SETUP: My “old” laptop died and I wanted to reuse the 512GB MSATA card that I installed in it a few years ago. Once I had the card out of my laptop, I transferred it to this case. Screwed it down with included screws. Then I added the side screws to the case, and dropped the whole thing into an external USB enclosure I had left over from some drives I shucked for my NAS. Anyway, I plugged it all in, the drive was instantly recognized and I was able to quickly backup any leftover files from my old laptop. My MSATA card by the way is a Samsung EVO 840 MSATA 500GB PERFORMANCE: I was worried about heat, but there was none at all. Performance was close to SATA II speeds over USB 3.1 chassis that I had. I don’t expect any issues long term. Next, I will likely install the drive as a new boot drive in a spare laptop I have. SUMMARY: I would recommend this to anyone who needs a quick way to rescue / reuse and old MSATA card. Especially if they are going to put this into another device. I’m not sure it would hold up on its own as an external drive (without a full case around it).

I bought this because of how pleased I was with a previous Sabrent purchase, the external USB SATA drive housing. The cleverness of the mechanical design was just great - it snapped together trivially with no tools - and electrically it worked seamlessly. This device was the same. I bought this because I had purchased another mSATA to SATA adapter, and it worked fine electrically, but it gave me problems mechanically. It would work loose from time to time and my system would say "no drive present". So I had high expectations for this purchase, and Sabrent did not disappoint. What a thoughtful design. A cloth strap to help pull the clamshells apart. Screws to firmly hold the mSATA drive inside the housing, and a quality, dimensionally correct housing, and more screws to secure the housing shut. No fighting required to get it together, or to get it to mate with my machine. It's exactly the size and shape of a hard drive, and the housing appears to be good quality powder-coated metal. The screws all mate easily with the screw holes. My only slight sadness is that I wish they had included the four screws that affix the drive to its bracket in my machine. Fortunately I had both saved my old screws and was able to find them. Lastly, I turned the machine back on and it just worked. No surprise - it's Sabrent. Keep up the good work, guys!

This item arrived quickly and works as expected so far.

Nice enclosure for a good price. Easy to use, although no real instructions on anything. Appears to be fairly well made, although there were a couple issues. A minor issue is the USB cable and the stiffness. With the enclosure being so light-weight, it tends to sit at whatever angle the cable forces it at. I would also like a slightly shorter cable personally. The other issue is in the engineering of the enclosure cable connection. As shown in the attached photo, the male connector does not insert fully into the enclosure, leaving almost a full 1/8 inch of the connector outside. Seems like a minor engineering issue that could have been fixed before production.

Él adaptador es de muy buena calidad, en mí opinión: Ventajas: El case es de metal. Soporta protocolo UASP. Funciona en Distros GNU/Linux. Cable de buena calidad. Tiene manual y desarmador. Desventajas: Solo he notado que se calienta mucho la case al formatear la SSD.

Wie auch für die neueren M.2 SATA SSDs bietet der Hersteller auch für die älteren mSATA SSDs einen guten Adapter. Ebenfalls gut verarbeitet, stabil, tut was es soll und man kann im Bedarfsfall (wenn man sie da hat) Wärmeleitpads zur Wärmeableitung ans Gehäuse auf der SSD platzieren. PS: ja die Gehäuse sind aus Metall und das finde ich sehr gut.

Helps you recover data from the internal SSD of Laptop, whose Motherboard got damaged. Remove SSD from the Old Laptop, insert SSD carefully inside the SSD Enclosure and attach it to a functioning Laptop. Copy data from the SSD to the functioning Laptop.

Good product .Does the job . Bit expensive.

Met die adapter kun je je msata nog ergens anders (dan laptop) voor gebruiken.