ORICO 2.5 inch Hard Drive Case ($16.99 - $8.00 coupon = $7.99)

Bought it last time with the 6$ coupon and had to return because the ssd would disconnect and or say the drive malfunctioned. Bought thr Sabrent one instead for 16$ and has worked perfectly

I had no problems so far. What Sabrent you got?

If this is anything like the last Orico 2.5 enclosure I tried, it's made out of a super cheap feeling plastic

but it works fine other than that

I also have an ORICO 2.5 inch Hard Drive Case, has worked fine.

Pretty sure the math is wrong and it's 8.99 plus 5% tax = 9.44

Ive purchased a few other ORICO enclosures and they've worked good so far for me.

I have an ORICO enclosure from 3 years ago and it's still going strong to this day. It gets used every single day recording dashcam footage when I'm driving.

Does this model support UASP?

It's usb 3.0 if anyone is wondering

Two Orico 2.5 enclosures failed in one week.
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How can 16.99 - 8 = 7.99 as shown in thread title ???

I have had a couple of the clear Orico 2.5" enclosures one going strong for over 2 yrs. The other one I started using about a year ago the cable that came with it was flaky, but the enclosure itself works fine. I was about to return it when I thought I should try a different cable. Which I ALWAYS have connected to back of my desktop from a Seagate portable drive. So when I am going through my 5 different portables I don't have move the computer to put a cable in the back. Never had an issue since and I have used the case without the cover on to clone a few SSD's to replace slower drives in laptops.

I will say the clear enclosures can get pretty warm but other than the cable it has not effected how they work. I decided to try a Ugreen cheapie enclosure and it is about the same quality material wise, and gets warm too, but I have only been using that one for a few months and not heavily yet.

The cheap enclosures are a great way to store media on old laptop drives that I inherited when I upgraded drives for people. Putting a used 500 GB 1 TB drive I got for free in one of these enclosures. To lend some media to people on is cheaper than buying anywhere near that volume of USB flash drives. Also for some reason people will steal a USB flash drive like a pen but will return the drive in the enclosure without me even asking especially the clear ones. Maybe because they are so unique it is hard to deny it was the one I gave them? LOL

Same here. I have a whole box full of hard drives from repairs/upgrades I have done for people. Even after giving a bunch of them to people, I still have a whole bunch. Besides media on them, is there something else you use them for? Any suggestions on what I should do with them?

thegame99 wrote: ↑ Same here. I have a whole box full of hard drives from repairs/upgrades I have done for people. Even after giving a bunch of them to people, I still have a whole bunch. Besides media on them, is there something else you use them for? Any suggestions on what I should do with them?

Not really other than give them to folks who DO NOT back up the pictures on their stupid phones EVER. Then call crying a river, when it gets toilet soaked, stolen, broke so bad no data will come off it without sending it to a recovery service or lost.

The look on people's faces when you tell them about how cheap cloud back up would have been. Compared to the value they put on, the ONLY copies of pictures of their young great grandkids they have now lost...

They act stunned when I point out I set it up for them for the FREE backup when they got the phone, but for some reason their techie offspring decided to turn that function off to protect ole mom and dad from the man finding out all their "secrets".

So the only pictures on the cloud are the ones of the ground, sky and their thumb while they were learning how the picture taking thingy works. Oddly the big secrets are their contacts, wrong numbers, texts saying they don't do texting so call me at home on the land line dammit, occasionally social media usually just Facebook and how many cat videos they watched. Since they would NEVER trust a wireless doodad for banking or anything important meaning something that required payment... LOL.

There is a powered usb hub (4 port) as well for $6.99 (including a $10 coupon)
https://www.amazon.ca/Networking-Stripe ... 980&sr=8-4

OOS

SindbadRFD wrote: ↑ There is a powered usb hub (4 port) as well for $6.99 (including a $10 coupon)
https://www.amazon.ca/Networking-Stripe ... 980&sr=8-4

According to the description:

Kindly Note

This USB 3.0 hub is designed for data sync only, not for charging.
To ensure the normal operation of energy-intensive equipment, extra main power is needed. (Box Note: Power adapter and micro USB cable are NOT included)

Basically this is a non powered 4 port USB 3.0 hub

hightech wrote: ↑ This USB 3.0 hub is designed for data sync only, not for charging.
To ensure the normal operation of energy-intensive equipment, extra main power is needed. (Box Note: Power adapter and micro USB cable are NOT included)

Basically this is a non powered 4 port USB 3.0 hub

Cancelled my order. Looks like they don't know what they built

justloking wrote: ↑ I had no problems so far. What Sabrent you got?

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00OJ3 ... UTF8&psc=1
black one

Canuck2fan wrote: ↑ Not really other than give them to folks who DO NOT back up the pictures on their stupid phones EVER. Then call crying a river, when it gets toilet soaked, stolen, broke so bad no data will come off it without sending it to a recovery service or lost.

The look on people's faces when you tell them about how cheap cloud back up would have been. Compared to the value they put on, the ONLY copies of pictures of their young great grandkids they have now lost...

They act stunned when I point out I set it up for them for the FREE backup when they got the phone, but for some reason their techie offspring decided to turn that function off to protect ole mom and dad from the man finding out all their "secrets".

So the only pictures on the cloud are the ones of the ground, sky and their thumb while they were learning how the picture taking thingy works. Oddly the big secrets are their contacts, wrong numbers, texts saying they don't do texting so call me at home on the land line dammit, occasionally social media usually just Facebook and how many cat videos they watched. Since they would NEVER trust a wireless doodad for banking or anything important meaning something that required payment... LOL.

Unless you pay to get more spaces on cloud, do not forget that free backup storage includes almost everything and not only your photos and clips. E-mail inbox, sent items, docs etc...are part of the storage space they (google 15GB, microsoft 5GB, icloud 5GB) allow you for free. If you used to receive a lot of video, music, pictures attachments and rarely do a clean up then you know what i mean. You receive a mail with 10MB attachment, that's 10MB of your cloud space. You save it on icloud or google photos, that's another 10MB. If you decide to forward that e-mail with the attachment, that will be another 10MB in your sent items folder. You have ended up using 30MB of cloud space. Imagine that you rarely perform a cleanup of your e-mail and cloud space, it will fill up and no more backup will be done anyway. Nowadays people like to attach their nicest, highest resolution pictures and that takes a lot of space in the long run. Shit can happen everywhere either on cloud or with your external drives. Just try to be as cautious as possible (2, 3 backup if necessary) if your datas are so sensitive to you.