ORICO USB 3.0 to SATA III 2.5″ Exterior Exhausting Drive Enclosure for two.5 Inch 7mm-9.5mm SATA HDD/SSD Instrument Free [UASP Supported],Black(2189U3)

Simple Easy Works Well
The case is extremely easy to open and place a drive inside. The exterior is a plastic that is non smudging, no finger prints, doesn’t slip out of your hand. The case feel greats to hold and the drive is very secure in the case during transports. (read below about UASP and TRIM)I have used other Orico products before and they have been solid throughout the years.My suggestion is: Use a SATA SSD, not a mechanical hard drive. The heat generated from the mechanic drive won’t have anywhere to dissipate. SSD you don’t have to worry about fragmentation like a mechanical hard drive and the over all weight of the external enclosure will be less.NOTE1: UASP stands for USB Attached SCSI Protocol. It allows for faster read/write data speeds to and from storage devices.Compared to traditional USB 3.0 BOT, UASP performs up to 70% faster read speeds and 40% faster write speeds at peak performance.TRIM: (MAC – OS):In order to check if your enclosure supports TRIM, you’ll want to go to Apple > About This Mac > System Report > Hardware > SATA/SATA Express > and look for “TRIM Support” under the enclosure specs. If TRIM Support is not listed, your enclosure most likely does not support TRIM. If it is listed but says “No”, you can try turning TRIM on by using the trimforce command in terminal. Just open Terminal and type “sudo trimforce enable”. Once your computer restarts, check System Report again to see if TRIM Support changed to Yes.TRIM: Windows (10/11):Start button, type in the search box: cmd (run command prompt AS ADMINISTRATOR)type in this: fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotifyif it returns “NTFS DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (Allows TRIM operations to be sent to the storage device)” Trim is turned on.

Works Great for my old HP Laptop HDD
I have an old laptop that was acting up, so in just browsing and researching, I discovered that I can still utilize the harddrive by inserting it into a shell enclosure. The price was right (less than $10). I popped the HDD out of the latop and after a trial test fitting it into the shell, it was loose fitting; however, this case came with two sponges for support. This solved the loose fit problem. It is plastic, but so was my $80 obsolete external WD MyPassport HD. Anyway, I had to add a nonstandard USB cord (not included). It hooked right up to my desktop without any issues and was easily recognized. (Reminder) you should probably format or partition the HDD once loaded to your computer for easy use by right clicking the mouse on the drive that the HDD is loaded too via “File Explorer.” Click format and “walla” you have an instant homedmade external HDD. I down loaded years of information in less than 10 minutes. I did not notice any resistance. I dinged it a star because it didn’t come with USB cord. No power source needed. I would recommend a shell vice throwing a perfectly good HDD away.

I bought it for reuse a SSD driver from a old computer. There is no need for any tool to installation of the driver into the box, just slide in, and push back. Once connected to the computer it works right away, truly PNP! Highly recommended to the people need a box for old or new Internal SSD drive using as a external extension.

very good