ORICO USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure for 3.5/2.5 Inch SATA Hard Drives/SSD Up to 20 TB, 3.5'' Tool-Free HDD Enclosure with 12V/2A Power Supply and UASP Acceleration (3588US3)

Plug and play. Simple to use. Workmanship solid for the price you pay. No problems so far and works as intended.

This enclosure works perfectly and was ready to go in less than a minute. It's a tool-less design so all you really have to do is slide off the cover, pop in your drive, and close it up. My drive sat a bit loose in the enclosure, but they provide two foam pads (one thick, one thin) to make the fit more snug. I stuck the thick pad down on the lid towards the end away from the ports, and it immediately stopped any rattling and clunking when moving it around. The lid feels a bit too easy to slide off, which isn't terribly confidence inspiring. However it still seems to hold well even if the latch disengages. I wasn't able to feel much wiggle room when I pulled on the cover, you have to slide it all the way out for it to come off. For the price, I'll give it a pass on this point. In the enclosure my hard drive mounts like any other removable storage, and it fully supports SMART. The drive supports USB 3 over its USB-C port, which is more than sufficient for my mechanical drive. Using the included USB-A to USB-C cable, I hit about 150 MB/s read speeds, which is pretty close to the drive's performance over SATA. I didn't bother to test write speeds since it's an SMR drive, so it would be limited by the drive itself. I noticed read speeds dropping after a few benchmarks, though I'm not sure whether that's because of the enclosure or the drive itself. The drive will even go into standby after a period of inactivity, just like it did when I had it in my desktop. Do note that pressing the power button will cause the drive to immediately power off without confirmation. It doesn't unmount or wait until it's finished writing, it will instantly cut power to the drive. I wished it would've taken at least a long press to power off. To summarize, I'm pretty happy with this drive, and it seems to be one of the few nicer enclosures that supports USB-C.

I just pulled a 3 TB HDD from my machine as I upgraded. It works fine, but I didn't want to burden the power supply anymore, while I do have an M.2 alternative. This enclosure is the best solution to create a backup drive that sit on the desk, and is used to have a redundant copy of all the data. The plastic/ metal combination is very well made and it's very sturdy. The charger gave me a hard time trying to install the socket head to the brick, but it wasn't a deal breaker. The USB cable has ample length and works great. The drive was a bit loose inside the container, but the manufacturer thought of that so they included a sponge with double-sided tape that you can put where it's needed, and it works. One more thing, the pamphlet doesn't tell you how to open the incluser correctly. Please slide it horizontally and don't pull it up (as the sketch on the pamphlet shows). It slides out.

My expensive 14TB Seagate "Expansion" drive died. I was able to determine, by plugging in a data-copier, that the drive itself was fine, and via multimeter than the power supply was also fine, so ordered this enclosure. It is tool-less and easy to use. Almost plug-and-play. With a few foibles. First, it is extremely finicky about connection. The other interface I have just plain works with the drive. This one, I don't know why the connection is tricky, but it is. But once the drive is recognized, it's stable. Second, the power button and activity LED are on the same end as the cable plugs. Which is inexpensive to manufacture, but not particularly ergonomic. Third, no SMART / ATA passthrough. So no ability to use APM (advanced power management), control stand-by, etc. on the drive itself. (Orico does claim their firmware has auto-sleep.) Note that another reviewer claims the C3 variant does support SMART. That could be. This variant was half the price. The enclosure seems quieter than the original Seagate enclosure, perhaps because the Seagate was very well vented. I did try this on Windows 11 Pro, Mac Tahoe and QNAP QuTS Hero. Other than the finicky cabling, it worked flawlessly on all three.

Worked perfectly. Easy to put the drives into and take out of the case

Very easy to connect and works great. I had an old computer with a large hard drive and before tossing it out, I pulled it and popped it in this box, now I have a much more robust storage system.

I purchased this item in Dec 2024. After receipt, I installed a 3.5-inch SATA 3.0 drive (Western Digital Caviar Black with low mileage) into the enclosure, connected the enclosure to a USB 3.0 port on a relatively new Lenovo T580 laptop, attached the separately connected power supply to a wall socket, pushed the tiny power-on button, and the unit turned on (I think it showed a blue light next to the tiny power-on button). My laptop detected the external drive, and I could review and load all the files just fine. Used it maybe 5 or 6 times with two different 3.5-inch hard-disk drives. No problems. Today, I tried to review those files again, but the enclosure would not power on. No light. I tried several times and tried different wall outlets (all known to work). The unit would not power on. It has just been sitting unused. The enclosure is easy to use and tool-less, but I have to idea why the unit will not power on. I re-installed the WD drive and tried another one, a Toshiba. No power in the enclosure. That is poor reliability. Orico has been around a good while, but this is an unsatisfying experience. I don't know whether to try another Orico unit or another brand. Very frustrating since I have important files on the two drives I tried. Just passing my experience along for others.

I purchased this product in hopes of being able to access files off of my five-year-old desktop that died nearly two years ago. Initially, I was hesitant to try this because I thought that the hard drive in the PC had failed and I’d just be wasting money. I was pleasantly surprised by the Orico 3.5” Hard Drive Enclosure. The package comes with a few items inside. You get the enclosure, a power cable, a USB 3.0 cable, an instruction manual in both Chinese and English, and two foam strips. I believe these require external power because of the 3.5” drive. A 2.5” drive in an enclosure does not need external power. The instruction manual is accurate and helpful, but it is for new drives. You do not have to follow this manual if you’re using an old drive from a PC as I was. The build quality of this enclosure is good. The material is a very sturdy plastic and the top of the case is metal, or at least feels like it’s metal. The bottom slides off and clicks into place with ease, but not easy enough that you should fear it sliding off unexpectedly. There is an LED power indicator on the front beside the power button. I took off the side of my old PC and blew out the immense amount of dust it had gathered. I pulled out the 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM drive, blew off the dust that was remaining on it, and slid it into the enclosure. There is extra space on the bottom and left side of the enclosure once the 3.5 drive is in. This worried me because it may become loose; however, Orico provides two foam or foam-like strips with adhesive on the back. I just used one of the two on the bottom and the hard drive did not move inside when I tried to move it. Using the provided cables, I plugged the drive into a socket and one of my USB 3.1 (my PC doesn’t have any 3.0) type A ports. I pressed the power button and the LED indicator came on. I pulled up Windows Explorer and I was shocked. All of my files from my five-year-old desktop were there. I’ve only had this running for 6 hours as of my typing of this review so I cannot speak for long-term use, but if anything changes I will update this. Performance wise I’ve not done any true testing, but I do have some figures to look at. Please keep in mind I am using a five-year-old hard drive that has been sitting for two years. I was transferring all the documents, pictures, music, etc. from the Seagate in the enclosure to the Toshiba HDD in my desktop. During 5-10 GB transfers, I saw transfer speeds of up to 220 MB/s. There was some fluctuation, but I never saw the speed go below 130 MB/s. (Attached is an image of the result from CrystalDiskMark after format completed). Here’s a bit of advice for anyone who may not be too tech savvy and is hoping to do what I did. My drive had both a system partition and data partition since it was the only drive in an old PC. This annoyed me. Also, many folders and files could not be accessed whatsoever because of the security used by Windows. For me, this was fine. I didn’t lose anything that I didn’t already have backed up elsewhere. I could still access my documents, pictures, music, downloads, and could even see what programs I had installed and all their files. I’m currently formatting the drive because of the partitions and the inaccessible/unable to delete files. It isn’t hard and anyone can do it. Lifewire has great guides on how to remove the partitions and format the drive if you don’t already know how to on Windows machines. Make sure you back up all of the files you can/want to keep before you begin the process. Deleting the partitions and formatting the drive permanently deletes all the files on the drive. It takes a while (I’m currently at hour 3 and it’s at 95%), but it is worth it. It deletes the system files you may not be able to delete and frees up that space. I would recommend this product. It was one of the cheaper choices that I saw here on Amazon and it does its job well. I'm happy with it and hope to be happy with it for at least a year.