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Review on πŸ“Ό RETROFLAG NES Cartridge Style 2.5" Hard Drive Enclosure - USB 3.0 with Type A Male to Micro B Cord - Compatible with NESPi 4 Case, Windows, Desktop, Laptop, Mac OS, Linux - 2.5 Inch SSD External Hard Drive Case by Richard Basque

Revainrating 5 out of 5

1 glaring bug renders it useless

I've struggled for many months to get this to work. I've also built a few hobby PCs and have a server closet full of repurposed hardware for consumer PCs and enterprise servers so I have the skills to sort things out and the willingness to tinker since it's my hobby. The best features of this case are the SSD container and the SATA backplane supporting the "NES cartridge". The problem is really simple. This USB 3-SATA adapter is junk and rarely works at the BEST of times. Mine isn't working at all right now, so I need to modify the case to make it usable. I'll highlight the problems you'll have: - The USB to SATA adapter will run at half the speed of your SD cards, if not worse since it uses a cheap, barely edited adapter chipset - you must Spending hours researching how to get that adapter to run at a decent speed, IF it works at all - even if you manage to update the SATA adapter's firmware and get barely acceptable speeds. You can forget all hopes of using a 2.4GHz wireless device. The SATA adapter causes strong interference in wireless controllers, keyboards, mice and all Bluetooth devices. I won't be returning mine as I have the means to hack this thing and get it working, but I wouldn't recommend this case to anyone. This matter requires a recall or replacement of the adapter.

Pros
  • 2.5" External Hard Drive Enclosure
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