🔌 StarTech.com 2.5" to 3.5" SATA HDD/SSD Converter Enclosure - External Hard Drive Adapter with 12.5mm Height Compatibility (25SAT35HDD), Gray Review

I needed a way to fit an internal Plextor M5M PX-256M5M 256GB Mini-SATA (mSATA) MLC SSD into my ASUS N56JN-MH71 laptop. So I found this special case. The mSATA SSD card fitted snugly into the case board slot and was secured with the included screws. After putting the case cover on, it fitted perfectly into the laptop's drive bracket and SATA slot. Along with another third-party hard drive carrier, I replaced the optical drive and moved the laptop's original 1TB hard drive in its place. I…

My music studio has a lot of memory connected to my main DAW computer. After filling all six SATA connectors on the motherboard, I need to add external enclosures with multiple drives. Most enclosures that work with USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gb/s) expect you to put 3.5" drives in their caddies. While it is sometimes possible to securely mount a 2.5" SSD on a cart, in most cases this is not the case. Sure, there are inexpensive adapters that might work in some cases, but I've had a few cases where they…

There are 4 modes (NoR, RAID1, RAID0, JBOD), none of them worked. Actual modes differ from manual modes in that NoR (actual) is used instead of BIG (documented). I believe NoR/BIG is what is commonly referred to as SPAN. Regardless of the mode and even whether drives are installed (tried one and both slots), when using the "Dock" OWC USB3 Mac OS Mojave only reports an entry called "Dual Drive Dock 1 Media" with a capacity of 104.9 MB (EVEN without hard drives!) and "Number of children: 0". I've