Description
The concept of Best Value is to offer customers the best value product, sourced from a variety of manufacturers all over the world, in any given category, at any point in time. The products selected for our Best Value range are carefully evaluated in terms of price, performance and manufacturing quality before they make it onto our website. Although certainly a 'value' brand, Best Value products are never inferior quality... just superb value for money.
Description
Make a 2.5inch SATA laptop hard drive portable
Just plug the cable into a spare USB port (USBv2 for faster transfer rates) and you can trasfer all your info, quickly and easily. Also comes with a USB power cable for larger drives or lower power laptops.
Features
- Super Slim and easy portability
- Hot Plug and Play Feature
- Enclosure for SATA 2.5 hard drives (laptop size)
- Shell Material - Aluminium
- Easy to Install and Carry
- Plug and Play
- High reliability
System Requirements
- Pentium 233 or faster or MAC
- 2.5 Hard Disk Drive with sata connector
- Windows ME/2000/XP or Mac OS 8.6 or higher
Includes
- 2.5 HDD caddy
- Installation Driver
- User Manual
- Cables
- NOT COMPATIBLE WITH IDE (44 pin) 2.5" HARD DISK.
Specifications
Summary
- Product Description
- Dynamode USB-HD2.5 - storage enclosure - SATA 1.5Gb/s - USB 2.0
- Device Type
- Storage enclosure - external
- Interface Type
- USB 2.0
- Expansion Bays
- 1 x internal - 2.5"
- Hard Drive Form Factor Compatibility
- 2.5"
- Interface
- SATA 1.5Gb/s
- Supported Devices
- Hard drive
- System Requirements
- Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, Apple MacOS 8.6 or later, Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Detail
General
- Device Type
- Storage enclosure - external
- Hard Drive Form Factor Compatibility
- 2.5"
- Host Bus
- USB 2.0
Storage Controller
- Interface
- SATA 1.5Gb/s
- Supported Devices
- Hard drive
Expansion / Connectivity
- Bays
- 1 x internal - 2.5"
- Interfaces
- 1 x SATA 1.5Gb/s - 7 pin Serial ATA
- Connections
- 1 x USB 2.0
Software / System Requirements
- OS Required
- Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, Apple MacOS 8.6 or later, Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Environmental Parameters
- Min Operating Temperature
- -40 °C
- Max Operating Temperature
- 65 °C
- Humidity Range Operating
- 8 - 90%
Customer reviews
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verybgood
Reviewed by Anonymous Review Posted 12/07/2012
very good serivce
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A perfect caddy
Reviewed by Ashley Jai Coleman. Review Posted 21/01/2012
Amazing value and the product works flawlessly. Sturdy construction and lightweight and the caddy is secured tightly with screws, although it felt like the holes were not threaded and was quite hard to screw it together.
Product has a dual USB wire which allows hubs to provide enough power to the device. Which is very handy.
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Value 2.5" SATA HDD Enclosure
Reviewed by peter. Review Posted 16/06/2011
ordered mon night.Delivered thurs morning(free delivery)bargain,easy to assemble,took minutes great cheap product 5 stars
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2.5" Caddy , does exactly what it says
Reviewed by Anonymous Review Posted 08/11/2010
Top marks , on my 4th one, correct cables too ! external enclosures are all meant to come with standard USB connectors unlike what the previous reviewer said !
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Just Works
Reviewed by PeterK. Review Posted 31/12/2012
Accepted a WD Scorpio drive with no hassle (but see below) and worked instantly.
I would have given it 5 stars except that there is no insulating sheet on the inside of the case to prevent the drive shorting out against the metal it's made of. So long as you put the drive in the right way up it's held clear by plastic lugs, but there's nothing to prevent you putting it in the other way and no instructions either.
Kudos, however, for including a screwdriver to tighten the case screws and a sleeve to protect it in transit.
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perfect for the price
Reviewed by jon. Review Posted 09/01/2010
does exactly what it says on it, nice small design, takes seconds to install drive, works like a charm no complaints.
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Avoid
Reviewed by Edward. Review Posted 29/01/2013
These are flakey, do not bother. I bought two: sometimes they work, then they flake out completely. Avoid.
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Beware Super-Top chip!
Reviewed by Anonymous Review Posted 28/01/2013
SOME of there may be OK (great value) but if you get one, check that its USB identitity is not
PID=14CD UID=6110 Ver=0220
That is a chip which CORRUPTS partitions!
Microsoft have withdrawn the Win7 driver for it, so it won't mount in Win7/8 anyway, but you might use it unawares in XP, Linux or MacOS.
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Doesn't fit all 2.5" drives
Reviewed by Duncan. Review Posted 10/11/2009
I bought this for a 1/6H 2.5" drive that didn't fit in my laptop. It doesn't fit in this caddy either. You need a 1/8H drive, which is not mentioned anywhere in the specs. Totally unusable for purpose in my case.
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poor, untrustworthy quality
Reviewed by Anonymous Review Posted 10/11/2009
(Brand name on box and enclosure: "Dynamode")
Dreadfully poor quality. This is no bargain.
No mechanical attachment for your disk: held only by the SATA connector! Manual says "120G or less recommended" -- err, so does it go wrong for larger disk sizes or what? Not reassuring. External connector on enclosure is a USB TypeA socket, when all modern USB-powered 2.5" drives use mini-USB Type B. (But box does include an A-to-2A Y-cable for you). Is this ancient stock being flogged off?
The overall attitude to quality control is exemplified by this quote from the 'Manual':
"Click "Finsh" now ausb Hard Disk Drive Should apper in my computer Windows Explore Ifnotrestart Computer"
Bottom line: this is so bad I won't risk using it even once. I cannot trust the integrity of my photos, music, etc, to something this poorly designed and produced. I should have chosen the StarTech.com enclosure (quicklink: 67CNWS) instead :-(
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