Customer Review

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  M. Shenton

  4.0 out of 5 stars Great little adaptor.

  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 May 2024

  Verified Purchase

  I've purchased this device twice now, it's well bit, it's always worked with whatever drive I've used it with be it Blu-ray, HDD or SSD, its even worked with IDE drives through a SATA to IDE adaptor and it even powers my Samsung 870 without a mains plug.
  
  For me I'd ignore the reviews that say it under performs, SATA 3 has a theoretical limit of 6Gbps where as USB3.0 is 5Gbps so it will never be able to push a drive to its limit, that's not a fault of the device but of the original USB3 standard. In my testing with a good SSD I get 4.2Gbps which is about right when including USB overhead (standards quoting peak numbers is the bain of computer technology), if you want to max a drive you will need a 10Gbps USB adaptor.
  
  Edit. The original one purchased in 2020 came with the power supply, newer ones don't even though there is a picture showing one, the text does state that it doesn't include one though. Knocked down a star for that reason.

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