Newer Tech Voyager Q HDD Dock For 2.5"/3.5" Sata Drive (NWTVU3ESFW8)

Hard to beat this little caddie. Not much else has this much connectivity at this price. I have used extensively for work had ports go bad on me before, and the plastic seems brittle and waiting to break, but seems to hold up OK.

if you've got an older mac or pc and you're wanting to migrate to a new drive, this is an easy, future-proof, cross-platform way to do it. though windows has always had an issue booting from an external prior to win7, you can still clone the drive over -- though there may be some issues will system level files. but with HDD drives cheap, you can pair this with these babies, NewerTech StoraDrive Anti-Static Case for 3.5" Hard Drives, 2 Pack, or these, iDsonix® Professional Premium Anti-Static Hard Drive Protection Box for 3.5 Inch HDD Storage Moistureproof Dustproof Shockproof (Five Colors), and have cheap, removable backups for your system. this has become an indispensable part of our backups -- reliable, portable, versatile. plus, it comes with all the cables and a power supply. well worth the cost.

Intended use was for a Mac with Firewire 800 - just looking for a little extra speed vs USB 2.0 as older Macs do not support USB 3.0. Two units were purchased and tested thoroughly. One unit was actually bad. The "good" unit was slower on the firewire 800 interface than on standard USB 2.0 and this unit was slower than a cheap USB only unit I have had for many years. I will summarize that the Firewire interface provided is for connector convenience only and does not provide the speed increase that Firewire would normally provide. The unit topped out at 22 MB/Sec on FW800 and 23 MB/Sec on USB 2.0 - a Firewire 800 enclosure with a proper chip set should yield 65 MB/Sec.

I purchased this as a replacement for the last model which had lasted 2 or 3 years with no problems. It just quit, so I ordered this one immediately as I use this for my main backup of my professional work. It arrived on May 15, 2015. On June 22, exactly 5 weeks after I received it, it just quit. It makes the noises like it is reading the drive just like it did 2 days ago, but my computer cannot find the drive, nor the other drive I had also been using. Amazon's website says it is warrantied for one month, so apparently I am out of luck and also out $72. Not happy at all.

Had only one hard drive that I can use with this😭

Nice product easy to used worked good.

I now have two of these for my Macs and love them (one's on my desk, the other's on my SAN). I use them for creating offline backups, so feedback about transfer speeds don't impact me (I rsync to them overnight). They're also smaller, lighter and more portable than other 3.5" external housings in emergencies. I saw one vendor's description say they're limited to 3TB, but they support 4TB drives fine (assuming your system does). I use them frequently with 99% full 4TB drives (15GB free) and never had a error reading or writing drives. I also love that they support 2.5" drives, as I have a number of those from hanging around from old Mac Mini and laptop upgrades, so they are now in rotation to backup their replacements.

works as it should

Just the job with various connectivity options I can use it on Windows and Mac. Always carry it with me when working.

I bought this after my 2010 iMac disc started behaving erratically and I had to replace it. I was able to use the Voyager Q to copy the files I needed quickly and without fuss. OS X Activity Monitor said the transfer rate was 80 Mbit/s over the firewire interface which was fine for me. Likes:- All the interface cables (USB, Firewire 400 and 800, eSata) included Simple to use and setup Fast operation over firewire 800 Dislike (hence only 4 stars) As mentioned in other reviews... not supplied with UK/European Plug top.

Great

I have 2 of these devices already, and they are excellent. However, in this case the Universal Power supply with slot-in country specific adapters had no UK plug adapter included, only the US one. Amazon UK should have strict agreements with their suppliers that any electrical equipment is usable out of the box in the UK unless specifically marked. Companies supplying equipment brought cheaply in other countries have a responsibility to ensure that UK standard connections are included. This unit was purchased to sort out a very urgent situation at a client, and it was hugely embarrassing to open the box and have something that did not work. Only reason Inkubus don't get a single star is that another drive I had brought with me as 'insurance' had a suitable power adapter and I was able to complete the job.