Simple Hard Drive Enclosure

A pretty small and functional hard drive enclosure, does exactly what it should.
The feel is ok, just a simple plastic box with a metal base. The lid can be pushed easily, the hard disk is only pure and fixed with the foam insert the cover again - that creates each, even without instructions and tools. Theoretically, one could the plate as well as often times change quickly, but my design will appear but not solid enough.

From the PC, the housing is recognized as "Norelsys NS1068," one of the usual USB-SATA controllers. If it actually exactly this chip and should not be the NS1068X, only a theoretical transfer rate up to 3Gbps (SATA2) would be possible, incidentally. That should, however, be a damn generally, the speed is not achieved with normal hard drives anyway.

I have a Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500GB built into the housing and tested on both USB2.0 and the newer 3.0 connection. On USB2.0 are writing about 25MB / s read and 30MB / s, so the usual average. On USB3.0 it goes faster to: Writing 64MB / s and read 79MB / s, which is already relatively close to the limit of the installed hard drive and seen such a good value.

The status of the drive will appear Duch a blue LED, the red during disk accesses flashes.

In addition to the supplied housing is still a 60cm long USB3.0 cable, another piece of foam and the English manual here. My first case was on a corner a few distinct scratches, was therefore likely to be classified as a B-Ware. The seller "SpringRainDEU" has then offered me a cost-neutral conversion, the replacement housing is now error-free.

Conclusion: For the price of housing USB2.0 one here gets a handsome and functional USB3.0 product, strong buy recommendation!