Product Description

Macally's mission is to provide its customers with the highest quality and value products which exceed their expectations and provide an effortless and pleasant interface with their PCs. Macally is achieving its mission through excellence in design, manufacturing and service.PRODUCT FEATURES:USB 2.0 to SATA technology;Supports USB high speed (480MBps) and full speed transfer rate (12MBps);USB bus powered;Supports any capacity 2.5'' Serial ATA Hard Drive;Solid Aluminum body for protection and excellent heat dissipation;Active LED to indicate power and data access;Works with both Mac and PC computers;Hot plug and play.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21948 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: Black
• Brand: Macally
• Model: B-S250U
• Dimensions: .70 pounds

Features

• Small, slim, and portable hard drive enclosure features fast USB 2.0 (with backward compatibility with USB 1.1) interface technology
• Solid aluminum body offers excellent protection and heat dissipation
• Accepts 2.5-inch SATA hard drive
• Offers USB Hi-Speed transfer rates up to 480 MBps
• Hot plug and play, so your files are always instantly available as soon as you plug it in

Customer Reviews

Hard not to recommend
I bought this enclosure to get a full image of my failed laptop's drive, as the repair shop restores the drive to "as-new" state and I didn't want to lose any of my data, applications, or settings.

The only thing you have to make sure of is that the SATA imnterface is what you really need (as opposed to ATA or IDE; check your computer's specs). Removing the drive from the laptop takes a few minutes (depending on the model); putting it into the enclosure - a minute or two (and I'm not really a handyman).

The next step is to use two provided cables to hook up the drive/enclosure combo to another computer; with Windows XP or Vista it will be recognized automatically; then the computer can access the drive like any other external drive.

The transfer speed seems to be limited by the USB interface, not by the drive itself. Using a free disk image utility, my 90 GB drive was imaged in two or three hours. Of course, I was also able to access any files I needed.

The build quality is good (metal with plastic covers at both ends); the internal circuit bords allows for the drive to be secured with four (included) screws, and the whole assembly slides nicely in or out. The on/busy light on the front works as it should. I cannot think of anything I woukd like to be improved.

The enclosure is as wide, and just 20 mm longer, but a tad thinner and better made than my SimpleTech pocket drive (which you cannot open), and therefore can be used, together with any 2.5" SATA HD as a portable, pocket-sized device, and that's the use I'm going to put it to next.

It is hard not to recommend this little gadget.

Good Case, Needs Power
A great slim case that was easy to setup and is convenient to use. The only down side is it's need for a second USB connection to draw additional power from. This makes it far less convenient for use on laptops where you only have two ports to begin with.

Nice and simple
This is a sturdy and simple HDD external enclosure. The drive will fit into a SATA plug within the enclosure, accessed by pulling the connector (rear) end of the case. The box includes the screws that will allow a secure fitting of the drive as well as the case end you removed for drive installation. After installation of the drive, my enclosure looked pretty sturdy yet remained very light. This is a very portable unit.

The kit includes a CD-ROM with drivers (which I did not use because both my Linux and Mac OS X computers recognized the drive right away). Also in the box you'll see the cables that you need to hook up the enclosure to the USB2.0 ports in your computer. You'll need two USB ports. One USB2.0 for the data port (ie, talking to the drive) and another USB port (could be 1.0 or 1.1) to provide additional current to the drive.

I used the enclosure to house a 60Gb drive (I upgraded my Macbook's drive with a 120Gb disk). During the data transfer, everything worked flawlessly. The aluminium in the case seems to do an excellent job keeping the drive cool.