2.5" Mobile Hard Disk Enclosure - SATA to USB 2.0

Hard Drive Enclosures

The purpose of a hard drive enclosure is to give an internal hard drive a housing so that it can be used as an external hard drive. This allows the user to give portability to an internal hard drive, saving time on having to move necessary files to a different drive that might be more portable. Furthermore, hard drive enclosures make it easy to create external hard drive backups of data on the user’s primary hard drive.

 Advantages of Hard Drive Enclosures

Hard drive enclosures offer several benefits in a number of different use cases. Primarily, they offer a quick and easy way to add storage to any system, whether it is a desktop, laptop and any sealed embedded system that can recognize the hard drive in the enclosure. Hard drive enclosures are also a convenient way to add storage to a PC that has run out of drive bays. Users can also transfer files between non-networked computers very quickly with a hard drive enclosure simply by taking out the internal hard drive in one system, placing it in the enclosure, and then attaching it to the new system. Finally, a hard drive enclosure allows users to keep important data safe in a detachable location when a virus or other catastrophe strikes the main system.

Features:

• Supports Standard Notebook 2.5″ SATA Laptop Hard Drives.
• Ultra Light Aluminum Case cools down your Hard Drive
• LED light indicates Power and Activity status.
• Hot-swappable, plug and play, no drivers needed.
• USB 2.0 connection (backward compatible with USB 1.1 specifications) provides a 480 Mbps transfer rate
• No external AC Power adapter is required as gets it power from any USB Port

System requirements

• Available USB 2.0 port on the computer.
• Windows: 2000/XP/Vista/7/8 (Both 32-bit & 64-bit versions)
• MAC: OS X

 Package Contents:

• Hard Drive Enclosure
• USB 2.0 cable (Data and Power)
• Screw set with screw driver

This is a case for your hard drive, not a complete external hard drive. Hard drive is not included.