UGREEN 2.5" Hard Drive Enclosure USB C 3.1 Gen 2 to SATA III 6Gbps for SSD HDD 9.5 7mm External Hard Drive Disk Case with UASP Compatible with WD Seagate Toshiba Samsung Hitachi PS4 Xbox Router

I've been working on a more hands-on cord cutter project. I've been a Tivo customer for years for OTA DVR and various streaming services and use Plex as a media server for Movie content. As a long time IT professional I wanted to put together a system that I could have more integration, specifically personal movie content and OTA DVR. I purchased a Raspberry Pi and loaded it with Plex. Attached it to my Synology NAS which had my movie content and all was good. I then added a TV tuner and also stored OTA programs on the NAS. Performance and quality was not good and certainly not on par with the Tivo. After some analysis it came to the conclusion that the NAS storage just could not provide the performance I needed for recording hi def content OTA in mpeg2 format which is large and inefficient, but the format that you have to live with without a tuner with hardware transcoding. I had a 500 Gig WD SSD from a laptop that died. I decided to get an external USB doc and use that to record DVR content. After reviewing many different brands and reading hundreds of review I decided on the Ugreen. I couldn't be more pleased. Amazon delivered it next day!!! Even in the midst of this Covid-19 nightmare. I had the drive mounted in the dock, attached to the Pi, formatted and attached to the Plex server in about 20 mins. I had no issues with the supplied USB cable as other have reported. Recorded OTA content is now perfect and as good or better quality that I get with the Tivo. Sorry Tivo, but I'm about to cut $20 / month from your revenue. I should note that I am in no way disparaging the Synology NAS. I have a DS216se, their small 2 disk system and love it. The reason it could not handle the DVR workload is it is already storing real time video content from 5 hi def security cameras, running my VPN server as well as my personal cloud services. It is very capable, but everything has limits. I was pushing too far. The large new Synology can run Plex directly on the system itself. Mine is too small for that.

I purchased this to house an SSD (Samsung EVO 860) drive that I've connected to a 2020 iMac. Installation was SUPER quick and intuitive. The whole process took me less than 90 seconds from the moment I opened the box until it was plugged into my computer and I was beginning the disk initialization process (and this was the first time I used an enclosure like this). I wondered about the cable used to connect the drives as some people have commented on the difference between the supplied USB-A to USB-C cable and using a Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C to USB-C) cable as the USB-A theoretically has much less capacity. I tested both and found only a slight improvement in performance as this particular drive was already hitting up against its theoretical maximum regardless of which cable I used. The SSD drive I was using advertises 520MB/s write and 550MB/s read. Using the cable that came with this UGREEN drive enclosure, I was able to get sustained write speeds in the 420 MB/s range and sustained read speeds in the 430 MB/s range (pic attached of results). Extremely impressive and about ten times faster than the USB 2.0 portable external hard drive I was using previously. When I switched to a Thunderbolt cable (SUNGUY cable, available here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08GQRLYJ6), the speeds increased by 10-20%. With the Thunderbolt cable, I was seeing write speeds of 475 MB/s and 525 MB/s read. This is still a little short of what Samsung advertises as possible for the underlying drive, but impressive nonetheless. Bottom line: **this is a great enclosure.** For most users, you probably don't need to spend the extra $15-$20 to upgrade the cable to something more capable - the supplied cable should be good enough. It's unlikely that you're doing anything where you'll need the full capability of the enclosure made possible by a higher end capable. If you need the extra speed, however, it's easy to upgrade the cable.

Turned the hard drive from by broken laptop into a useful external hard drive. Works fantastic!

It performed as expected, but for my set up the plastic case didn't allow enough cooling for the drive that is in use whenever my laptop is on. Eventually it got hot enough it slowed down. I changed my setup to include a powered fan for my laptop that will draw air past the drive holder. I returned the plastic one for an aluminum cased drive holder that cost a few dollars more, also from Ugreen that should cool better. I have several of their products and they have always performed satisfactorily for me.

Envoi très rapide et soigné. Toujours content des produits UGreen👍. Acheté pour remplacer un boîtier entrée de gamme Seagate (1To 5400trs) J'apprécie l'arrêt de la rotation après 15mn sans activité :) Je peux l'oublier, il fera pas le tour de la terre. Bonne électronique. C'est mon 3 ème, pour faire des disques baladeurs. J'ai aussi un excellent boîtier Ugreen de 3,5", (le seul à avoir pu discuter avec un disque dur planté :) qui drive un 6To 7500trs et ça va (4 ans, onduleur). Ces boîtiers s'ouvrent sans outils, on peut changer rapidement de disque. Zéro souci pour moi, je conseille. C'est pas bien les soucis :) Livré avec un câble USBA/usbC de 50cm.

I use it and it is Very good and speedy...

amazing

Prodotto perfettamente conforme alle specifiche presentate dal produttore. Acquistato per il riuso di un HDD interno dopo l'upgrade che ho fatto da HDD a SSD. -Spedito neii tempi di consegna stimati -Confezione originale del produttore che garantisce una buona protezione durante il transito. -Robusto -Ottimo il contenimento dell'HDD al suo interno grazie alla splendida funzionalità Anti-Shock -Ottima qualità dei materiali -Viene riconosciuto quasi all'istante dalla maggior parte dei PC (sia tramite la porta USB 2.0 sia, ovviamente, da quella 3.0) -La trasmissione tramite Porta USB 3.0 funziona perfettamente; questo l'ho riscontrato tentando il passaggio di 20 GB di materiale sia tramite la porta USB 2.0 che tramite quella 3.0, con una straordinaria differenza di quasi il 50%. -Rapporto Qualità/Prezzo: 100% Sembra di avere tra le mani un HDD esterno di quelli che si acquistano già assemblati dai produttori nei negozi. Sono molto soddisfatto di questo acquisto e lo consiglio tranquillamente a tutti quelli che hanno intenzione di non accantonare un eventuale disco interno e sfruttarlo al meglio non spendendo cifre esagerate. P.S. Funziona Benissimo con qualsiasi Hard drive di diverse generazioni...ma è giusto precisare, date le specifiche tecniche di ultima generazione di questo Case Esterno, che avrà un maggior rendimento se l'HDD (o SSD) che viene inserito al suo interno sia anch'esso (a livello di scrittura/lettura, e più in generale, di tecnologia implementata) di una recente generazione.

works great with my 860 evo, easily secures the hdd and uses usb c cable.