Conveniently good hard drive enclosure with minimal potential for improvement

The CSL external hard drive enclosure takes internal 2.5-inch hard drives on with a height of 7 or 9.5 mm. The installation succeeds easy because you have to make any glands. Plug hard disk or solid state drive into the SATA port, stick foam spacer on drive or lid, housing postpone again ... done!

That one can not expect a high-quality metal housing for the very reasonable price, should be obvious. The plastic used is a total but a stable, resistant and pleasant to the touch impression. The supplied cable is positioned securely, the small status LED gives information about the operation and, if necessary, an additional power supply by 5V adapter (not supplied) can be connected.

Improvable is the size and thickness of the supplied foam material, to prevent back and wobbling of the built-in drive in the chassis. In my 7mm SSD you can still notice a slight wobble and thus not completely tight-fitting drive, despite the use of the spacer. On the operation of solid state drives that should indeed have no effect, in conventional 7 mm hard drives could already look different with their moving parts. The manufacturer should make improvements and spendieren a slightly thicker and larger "filler". For 9.5-mm drives occurs this "problem" is not on.

In addition to the simple exterior, through which I became aware only in this case at all, this solution stands out due to the good performance. With nearly 320 MB / s when reading and writing (AJA Mac) the performance of my OCZ Vector 150 is not exhausted, but still provides a relatively high transfer rates and is quite close to the approaching what USB 3.0 can afford practically.

Conclusion
Very cheap and sufficiently robust hard drive enclosure with very good transfer rates. The only minor flaw, which also occurs only when using 7-mm drives can be quickly resolved through the use of a more appropriate spacer and should work for most users not be a problem.

+ Price
+ Transfer rates
+ Hard drive mounting
+ Additional 5V port
+ Weight

+/- 7-mm drives have too much play