Ultra ULT40244 Brushed Aluminum External Hard Drive Enclosure - 2.5 SATA Drive, USB, eSATA, Aluminum, Black

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I have just purchased the product as an upgrade for my old Inspiron 6400 Laptop, replacing the old 100gb 5400 rpm hard drive with the 7200 rpm drive, the sheer performance improvement is great. I am running Windows 7 on my laptop and over all performance gain feels like twice as fast.

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Good quality enclosure. The value is great especially when you consider everything included in the box. My only wish would be that swapping the drives out of it was faster. The solution to that is buy a tool-less enclosure, or buy more enclosures for your spare drives.

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I use this as an alternate booting Linux OS on my corporate laptop. I use this 90% of the time and only boot the main hard drive when I absolutely need to. It works flawlessly, it has a nice travel cover and when I eventually have a computer with eSATA it will be even faster. It could also be used as an external backup drive. I am going to buy another for this reason.

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I got this HDD case to put my 120 gb ps3 hdd in. This was a great buy. Went together easy, is very well built, great price and it comes with everything you need. That little green screw driver was so convenient and came with plenty of screws to secure it firmly in the case. I have recommended this model to a couple of my friends and awaiting their review.

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I spent $9 on a cheap enclosure and got what I paid for. It stopped working after 1 use. The Ultra is leaps and bounds better. Built well and works as stated. The only thing that I would change is to put rubber feet on the bottom to prevent sliding (easy enough to do yourself).

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I do work in industrial settings and I use my equipment hard. This enclosure is tough and the Hitachi drive I put in it doesn't overheat. Nice combination

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It is a very solid enclosure, and comes with all the cables you need, even with the esata socket for desktop. Great price for such a great enclosure.

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This enclosure peaked my interest a few months ago because of the eSATA. I have to say it is a great enclosure. I glad I bought it. Comes with all the cables and an external eSATA PCI port bracket, incase you do not have one available. Two thumbs up!

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My only regret is I had to wait until it got to my doorstep. This item, as a previous reviewer mentioned, comes with all cables you might need, just name it, even a portable screwdriver, a really simple to assemble enclosure which has worked flawlessly through both ports, eSata and USB,for two consecutive weeks. I use it to transfer files on two computers, one with eSata connector to another with USB 2.0 connectors. I wished I could see more Ultra products in the West Coast.

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The ad for this device says it fits any SATA hard drive. It does not. I have a Seagate Momentus 7200 SATA drive and it does not fit. This cost me a lot of time that I could not afford, so be careful.

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Works fine, simple installation, and I like the finish, it is solid. The leather pouch is nice but I'm afraid it won't last long.

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Great product. Everything I needed came with it. Easy to add the hard drive. Works great!!!

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This was perfect for what I needed and works just as advertised. My wife laptop's powersupply fried, we were able to use this to turn her old laptop hard drive into and external usb drive without loosing any data.

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very simple to put together, works on linux, mac, and windows, usb and esata work great. the product also only uses the one usb plug on most computers such as my new macbook pro and my old dell laptop.

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Great metal case. No complaints. Would buy it all over again.

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Good especially that this 1 had esata on the case worth the extra 4 or 5 bucks over the 22.97 case

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I am very happy with the quality of the aluminium casing. Sturdy, slim and light weight. Installation was simple. I installed a WDC 640gb hard drive. I am very impressed with the compatibility and performance. USB transfer rates were very high (about 35mb per sec on my computer). I could not expect much more than that over USB. I have not used eSATA. I have not had power issues with this drive. It is reliably powered by a single USB port (using my WD 640 drive in it). It is perfect for my needs.

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Very nice 2.5 enclosure with all the cables to have you up and running right out of the box. Even comes with a case. Easy assembly to install a 2.5 SATA hard drive. Quality is excellent and the best out there for the money. Don't pass this enclosure by, you won't find anything better for the money. I was so impressed after purchasing one, I ordered another.

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Worked right out the box. A little hard to mount the drive and put everything back together. Transfer rate appears fine.

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The product is great overall - nicely finished, and with a full complement of cables (and even an eSATA PC bracket). Unfortunately, in my case the USB power cable (that powers the drive when using the eSATA data connection) has been wired with the wrong polarity! I am currently working with them to find out whether they can replace just the cable, since the drive is already in use.

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No problems installing the drive and everything is working 100%. By far the best enclosure I own for that value.

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I visited a macintosh friend recently and he was using a USB hard drive on his MacBook Pro. I was always the believer that only Firewire was the transport for data to an external drive, but my experience has been very different. I really like the design and substance of this enclosure. It is well built and able to take abuse as an all aluminum enclosure. It is a surprising value for such an enclosure with a 3 year warranty.

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So i bought this enclosure as a replacement for WD HD Passport. This makes it look even nicer than before and it stays very cool while in use. I plan on purchasing another for my 3.5 HD. Must have if you have extra drives laying around.

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The hard drive enclosure is really really good, it doesn't get hot and it comes with all sort of things you can use, including a e-sata mount for the pc. Excellent value for all the things that come with it.

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USB powered Hard Drive with eSATA and USB data transfer for that price ! Really, it's a bargain. Very fast shipping ! Love the design, seems durable and solid. Performance is at 4 since eSata seems just a bit slower that usual, but maybe is it just my computer (probably)... Would definitely buy again.