Proxima Direct® USB 2.0 External 2.5" SATA Hard Drive HDD SSD Cable Adapter 5+17 22Pin + Protective Case

Title : Proxima Direct® USB 2.0 External 2.5" SATA Hard Drive HDD SSD Cable Adapter 5+17 22Pin + Protective Case
ASIN : B0098AF3U0
Description : This is an external USB to 2.5" SATA Hard Drive HDD cable with Protective Case/box, it will allow you to combined a 2.5" SATA HDD or SSD to be an external Hard drive. The Dual USB designed will provide you high speed data transfer rates and 5V power stable power source from the USB connector. No extra power required, Support hot-swap, plug and play.




Furthermore, you can also use the protective Case Separately --use the USB to 2.5" SATA HDD cable to connect the 2.5" SATA HDD upto the computer, while the box to store or carry another 2.5" SATA HDD SDD conveniently. Protecting your 2.5" HDD far away from dust, damp, skip, shock, vibration and static.
Features :

• 100% Brand New And Full one year Warranty, Comes with External 2.5" SATA Hard Drive Protective Case
• Supports any Hot Swappable 2.5 inch SATA Hard Disk and SSD
• Powered via computer USB port, no external power required
• USB 2.0 interface, support hot plug ，plug and play，data transfer rates up to 480Mbps
• Built in TWO LED indicator light for Power and Data transfer : Power (Blue), Access (Red)

List Price : £9.95
Price : £2.95
Saved Price : £7.00

category: External Hard Drives
brand: Proxima Direct®
Item Page Detail URL : link
Rating : 4.5
Review : Extremely useful and functional device, might be better if plastic case was metal
I bought this because a logic board failure in my MacBook Pro meant that I couldn't start up my computer any more. I extracted the hard drive and placed it in the plastic casing. The SATA connector worked perfectly (as you would expect it to).

The real beauty is that you don't need to power the hard drive using a plug in adaptor. Instead there are two USB connectors, one of which draws power to the hard drive and the other which is used for transferring data to and from the drive.

One downside is that as I was tranferring data, the hard drive began to get hot. It woul dbe nice if there was a metal case provided for the hard drive to sit in instead of the plastic case. A metal case would draw some of the heat away. I got around this by placing the drive inside the plastic case and then placing the whole lot into a cold frying pan to help dissipate the heat.

A second downside is that if you are using a computer that doesn't have two USB ports beside each...