Review on 🔌 ORICO Toolfree USB 3.0 to SATA External 3.5 Hard Drive Enclosure Case: For 3.5 SATA HDD and SSD, Supports UASP and 16TB Drives by Marcus Hussain

I bought this product hoping to be able to access files from my five year old desktop that died almost two years ago. At first I was reluctant to try it because I thought the hard drive in the PC had failed and I was wasting my money. I was pleasantly surprised by Orico's 3.5 inch hard drive enclosure. USB 3.0 cable, Chinese and English user manual and two foam strips. I believe they require an external power supply due to the 3.5" drive. The 2.5-inch drive in the case does not require external power supply. The user manual is accurate and informative. Useful, but it's for new drives. You don't need to follow this guide if you're using an old drive from a PC, like me. Build Quality This case is good. The material is very strong plastic and the top of the case is metal, or at least feels like metal. There is a power LED on the front next to the power button. I removed the side of my old PC and which blown out a huge amount of dust that had accumulated on it. I pulled out the Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM hard drive with a capacity of 2 TB, blew off the remaining dust on it and put it in the case. After installing a 3.5-inch drive, there is additional space on the bottom and left of the case. This worried me because he might be weakening; However, Orico offers two strips of styrofoam or styrofoam with adhesive on the back. I just used one of the two below and the hard drive wouldn't move in when I tried to move it. Using the cables that came with it, I plugged the drive into an outlet and one of my USB 3.1 (any 3.0) Type A ports. I pressed the power button and the LED light came on. I opened Windows Explorer and was shocked. All my files from my five year old desktop were there. I've only had it running for 6 hours at the time of writing this review so I can't speak for long term use but if anything changes I'll update this. .In terms of performance, I haven't done any actual testing, but I have some numbers to look at. Please note I am using a 5 year old hard drive that has been sitting for two years. I transferred all my documents, pictures, music etc from the Seagate in the suitcase to the Toshiba hard drive on my desktop. I've seen transfer speeds of up to 220MB/s when transferring 5-10GB. There was some fluctuation, but I never saw the speed drop below 130MB/s. (Attached is a picture of the CrystalDiskMark result after formatting is complete.) Here's a little tip for those who aren't too tech savvy and are hoping to do what I did. My drive had both a system partition and a data partition since that was the only drive on the old PC. That annoyed me. Also, many folders and files could not be accessed at all due to the security used by Windows. For me it was ok. I haven't lost anything that I haven't already backed up elsewhere. I could still access my documents, pictures, music, downloads and could even see what programs I had installed and all of their files. I am currently formatting the drive due to partitions and inaccessible/unerasable files. It's not difficult and anyone can do it. Lifewire has great guides on removing partitions and formatting a drive if you don't already know how to do it on Windows computers. Before beginning the process, make sure you back up any files you want to keep. Deleting partitions and formatting a drive permanently erases all files on the drive. It takes some time (I've got 3 hours now, that's 95%) but it's worth it. It removes system files that you may not be able to remove and frees up that disk space. I would recommend this product. This was one of the cheapest options I've seen here at Revain and does the job well. I'm happy with it and I hope to be happy with it for at least another year.