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)
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If you have a 3 you cannot use this. Powered by 5-volt USB, the drive is compatible with Windows XP or Vista. Here are the two. Drives in 5 series only use a 5V power supply, which is why this method works. In addition to the 5V power rail of the 5 drives, the power rails have 12V power. A 3 needs to be run. If you are using a 5.25 drive, you will require an external 12V power source. A number of interfaces are available.
In part, yes, but there are 1) Your new drive must be compatible with your laptop, and it must be at least the same size as your current drive. 2) laptop must have enough USB ports 3) laptop must be able to boot from a USB thumb drive 4) laptop must be able to swap out drives I did this with a mini desktop to replace a failing SSD. Ubuntu was installed on a 16GB thumb drive, and then I booted my laptop from the thumb drive. I then connected this cable to the laptop and connected the new boot drive to it. You'll need to read and understand the DD command and be sure to confirm the drive assignments. This is *****
With SSDs and USB 2. I have been able to use them. The HDDs in laptops typically use too much power to function on 2 GB of RAM. The older ones pull too much for 3, and I've seen some older ones pull too much for 0. My job is a computer repair shop where we use these things like crazy, and it often depends on the drive you're using, as well as your USB port's ability to deliver the power it's supposed to. SSDs have the advantage over platter drives, but it's a coin flip if you're using a platter drive.
It is true. The SSD drive was connected to the USB 3 port on the back of a server for weeks without issue without an external power source.
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Rather than ordering from , I chose to buy it from Amazon. Take caution! I received a product that was different from the one in the picture. There was a cheap knockoff made in China. My product is the exact product shown in the images, and it works well. Rather than ordering directly from StarTech, I bought this product through Amazon because the price was lower and the seller claimed it was a genuine StarTech product. Packaging and specs are pictured, right down to the last detail. As I received this unit, it was just 3" in length and it lost connection repeatedly when plugged in. The following is also true It actually has "StarTech" even though the unit pictured does not. While the unit received had "com" imprinted on it, the thing it came in did not. We make and sell high-quality, high-performance products at StarTech Our products are of the highest quality. There is no such product from StarTech and whomever provides these items is a fraud.
mostly uses it for school work and listening to music, but I could see her frustration with the "spinning beachball" every time she launched an application or browsed the web. It was after reading about the success some people were having with replacing the slow 5400RPM hard drive that came with the Mac with one of the newer SSD drives that I decided to Here are the steps I took 2) Purchase a 500GB Samsung SSD drive ($80)*2. 2) Purchase this USB 3. 0 device from StarTech. There are 0 to 2 options. Hard drive adapter to fit 5" SATA III hard drives, 3. 1) Get The files were downloaded to my daughter's mac free of charge. I. 4. 1) Connect new Samsung SSD drive via USB port on Mac with StarTech cable. This is *br5.
6) Follow the instructions in SuperDuper to clone the original drive.
7) Follow video instructions on YouTube to remove the old drive and install the new SSD drive. 1) Reboot the This is done! In fact, it was perfect for cloning a Mac to an Due to the fact that her laptop was already opened, I also upgraded its 4GB of RAM to 8GB (another $54). It was very easy to It boots up much faster and skips none of the spinning beachball nonsense when using the SSD drive. Here are a few examples of how much faster the computer is using the SSD drive
BOOT- This is the old HD (UP) A total of 2 minutes, 15 seconds have passed. It falls below A NEW SSD is available The Old Hard Drive is broken in 47 seconds
EXPLORE WORDS
(OLD I completed the following in one minute, three seconds It falls below A NEW SSD is available The old HD should be open within 5 seconds (1 second on each screen) A minute and 31 seconds later It falls below A NEW SSD is available (OLD HD) DOWNLOAD, SETUP, and SHUTDOWN within three seconds The second half of 27 seconds is over. It falls below A NEW SSD is available It takes 6 seconds to complete the following string.
Additionally, it was unable to work with SSDs. When it came to optical drives, the problem was a Pressing the eject button caused a light to blink several times, but the device did not eject. The fix was to use a different adapter with a separate power source. There is no moving part on my SSD, so I couldn't even use this junk! The crud I found in this trash bin might "adapt" to it. -If you want a device to work with this product, search for Unitek USB 3. -( Unitek USB 3. Hard Drive Adapter Cable for 2 SATA III Hard Drives, Compatible with USB 0 and USB 3. I put together my list of 5. With 12 volt/2 a power supply, the 5-inch HDD/SSD disk and the SATA optical drive supports UASP).
The product I have ordered from StarTech deserves five stars. I could not get this cable to work for me, even though it should have. It is my sole aim to write this review to help someone who might be going through the same issue that I did so they won't waste time trying to solve it the same way I did. In addition, I want to pay StarTech a compliment. A Mac Pro tower built circa 2008 and a new MacBook Pro are all that I have. Data from an old 2 was missing, so I tried to get it back. It was a 5" SATA drive that had been in my tower and was now It comes in a USB-style design In order to power up my old drive I had to connect my SATA cable.
My old 2. . . . This WD Velociraptor 5" SATA drive can be found online. When they were alive, they moved wicked fast. Also, they consumed more power Zero is specified for it. I am going to perform 95A @ 5VDC The current draw at 12VDC is 3A The amount of juice you've got there is astounding The power consumption is almost 10 Watts! My concern was whether this StarTech cable would be capable of handling this task. I have a hub that can handle a lot more than that, but my Apple says that it can only handle half of that. A few things went wrong with the setup. Here's what I did I brought a new Samsung SSD from Amazon, and I plugged in the old two. It was as fast as a flash to plug the 5" drive into my Mac Pro tower and copy the data using the StarTech cable to my SSD. So, you ask, why are there five stars for StarTech when the program did not work out It is simple. There are two reasons for this. The first thing they did on their cable was attach a tiny LED to it. I thank StarTech for your help! I connected my StarTech to my Mac, but when I flipped the switch, it wouldn't start my 2nd computer. Despite the bad connection on the 5" drive (the LED), I knew that I had a good connection when I found it I am most likely to blame for the problem. Moreover, there was a second reason why I gave it 5 stars. While checking the volts and amps as well as USB thing, I found StarTech's website to be quite complete and easy to use. the part number for this cable into the Google search box, which brought up a page with full and easy-to-read technical specifications. It is not at all surprising that Apple's tech specs are comparable to those of WD. I am amazed! Apple would be jealous of StarTech's precision. How could anyone have known? It was a good thing that what could have been a 2-hour battle of frustration was reduced to 15 minutes of trying, failing, reading the tech specs, solving the problem another way, and getting on with my life. I'm sad that others I want to thank StarTech, again!.
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