Very good 2.5 "enclosure with USB 3.0

Appearance:
The small 2.5 "housing is made almost entirely of matt black plastic, the top appears to be of a matt black painted sheet. Overall, the visual impression is very good, despite the large amount of plastic that fit is very good and there are no ugly rough joints.

Hard Disk Installation:
Suitable is the case for conventional notebook hard drives or SSDs. These can be very easy to install without tools: The plastic back can be pushed like a battery cover of remote control, without, however, act wobbly or cheap. The HDD / SSD can then be easily put into the case and push / insert on the SATA connectors. On the inside of the lid there is a foam stickers, serving when sliding the lid to fix the hard drive (and probably a bit contributes to damping to shocks). A second foam sticker was the case the way (presumably as a replacement part) even at.

Use & Performance:
At the front of the case is a "USB 3.0 Micro B" jack to which the supplied (about 50cm long) USB 3.0 cable is connected. In addition to the USB port to a status LED that glows blue in USB connectivity, at data transfer in addition reddish flashes is (by the color mixing "blue-red" affects the color of the flash rather "pink / purple"). A power supply is not needed for operation, this is at most small 2.5 "cases now also common.
When using on a MacBook Pro 13 Retina (MBP13R, Early 2013) on OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 to the internal HDD (Hitachi 5K320 HTS54323 from my old Lenovo Thinkpad R500) comes to transfer rates of about 60 MB / s in both reading and write access.
When changing to a SSD (OCZ Vertex2 120GB) to achieve read transfer rates of 109 MB / s write and 147 MB ​​/ s!
The case is detected perfectly well during the boot process of Macbooks and thanks to SSD and USB 3.0 as brisk external boot device used (tested with OS X 10.9 Mavericks).

Conclusion:
Very good price / performance ratio, especially due to the simple hard disk installation and good performance. I also like the boot option very well, because with my previous 2.5 "Enclosures (Poppstar SE40) was not that!