🔐 Sabrent Locking Drives with Straight Cable Review

This cable is great quality and very fast when connected to a Samsung SSD with a USB-A connector, but as soon as I use the included adapter to USB-C add, the connection speed decreases significantly. Tested on multiple computers, USB-A speed tests show read/writes in the 475-510MB/s range. If you add a USB-C adapter, the speed drops to ≈35 MB/s. Not as big a deal as using a different adapter or USB hub to access USB-C supports faster speeds, but it was advertised as USB-A and C so I wish the…

So far it's worked fine and works fine on Linux Mint. However, I bought it to use with some of the SSDs I have and to my great annoyance I found that this adapter uses the ASMT1351 (ASM1351) chipset which you can quickly google and find that it doesn't have any TRIM transfer supported. Commands to SSDs. It's probably not a big deal if you've only had an SSD connected for a few hours/days, but prolonged use with this adapter will prevent proper SSD wear leveling, causing your SSD to die…

We just wanted to provide an unbiased and/or unbiased review of one of the best external USB devices we have ever used. For work backing up customers' hard drives, I've used several cables over the years and have honestly found one of the best cables. These Sabrent USB 3.1 to 2.5" (Laptop Hard Drive) cables are the fastest data cables available. I also use them for 2.5" HDD and SSD mining. The image I will post along with this receipt is from disk mining. These are the most reliable cables…

I don't know exactly whether this adapter was the cause of my problem, I can't explain what it could be, maybe it was a data carrier signature for a Update Windows Disk Management. But this device is suspicious simply because it has so few other explanations, which is why I'm writing this review in case others are having a similar problem. The computer worked fine. I have a drive connected to it that works great with the Weme SATA to USB adapter I have. Windows kept the disk offline (the disk…

My computer had a 250GB SSD which I upgraded to 500GB. my Lenovo laptop (it's old) so I can use it as an internal drive and figured I could always just move it to my computer if I wanted to. While that was my intention and it works, I mainly use the drive externally with this adapter. I'm running a VM with 100GB of storage (although it's VDI) and 16GB of RAM running multiple typescript projects at the same time. Had no problems with this drive, no problems in the 7 months I've owned it. Also…

I don't normally test anything for the first thirty days, but I was pleasantly surprised to test it before any thorough use. Also, I originally wanted to buy the USB-C version, but the person who now needs to copy the disk didn't switch to USB-C, so I reluctantly ordered the USB-A version. What was surprising was that there was a USB-A to USB-C adapter in the box, which looks like a high-speed version (it has extra pins and is blue). That way I can transfer it and continue using it with my…

It's bothered me so much that now that I have it I want everyone else to know that I don't. I was able to view SMART data using CrystalDiskInfo, GSmartControl, and Speccy (By the way, Sabrent's USB 3.0 version, EC-SSHD, also supports SMART data). If your favorite utility doesn't report SMART data for a particular drive, try a different one. . GSmartControl is sometimes unable to report SMART data for an adapter attached drive, while CrystalDiskInfo and Speccy have always been able to in my…

This seemed to work right away with a SanDisk Extreme SSD used as an external drive on the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspbian Buster. Formatted the drive normally and accepted file transfer and so on. Permissions got shaky on every reboot for files/folders on that drive, and some apps on the Pi kept throwing "Permission Denied" errors when trying to rename or move despite being granted access. Different drives caused the same problems; The problems disappeared when the same drives were used with a…

I used this cable when upgrading my MacBook Pro and my wife's hard drives (from HDD to SSD). It was just a gamble as I didn't know if I really needed a sled with a body and such, but the thing worked great! I don't want to bore you with the whole story, but my wife's hard drive failed (won't boot and I've tried everything to get it working, including reinstalling the OS a couple of times). So I reluctantly sent it to a data recovery place who charged me a HUGE amount of money for data…

I love this cable so much I bought two more besides this one. I have a lot of SSDs and two laptop hard drives that I use regularly for different purposes. I always use these Sabrent USB to SSD adapters to clone my new SSDs and HDDs, which has happened quite a bit over the last year. I've used these Sabrent SSD cables regularly for everything from laptops to at least six different desktops. I've never had problems with data transfer - neither with USB 2.0 interfaces nor with USB 3.0. I bought…