Customer Reviews for StarTech 2.5in SATA/SAS SSD/HDD to 3.5in SATA Hard Drive Converter (25SATSAS35)
StarTech 2.5in SATA/SAS SSD/HDD to 3.5in SATA Hard Drive Converter (25SATSAS35) is New at Staples
Item # : IM1LJ6815
Model # : 25SATSAS35
StarTech 2.5-to-3.5-Inch Drive Converter - Avoid Buying New Hard Drives
- Black
- Interfaces: SAS, serial ATA
Price is $28.29
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11 reviews
Most helpful positive review
Posted Nov 16, 2021
Worked brilliantly until ....
... I installed Windows 10 64 bit on my PC. Nothing hot swap about it now that I can find. Under Windows 7 64 bit it was genuinely hot swap. It was the simplest thing to install and use. With Win 10 I need to power off the PC, remove the HDD installed, insert the required HDD and power on again. I can't find a solution so this is a last resort :-( . From what I've found...
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Posted Jun 28, 2018
Did not work for me
First: could not just slide in the 2.5 drive into the converter, (about 1/2 an inch stuck out the back) in the end I just removed the 8 or 9 screws placed the drive and reassembled the converter. Second: the mounting holes did match the pins on my Dell’s mount.
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Posted Nov 16, 2021
Worked brilliantly until ....
... I installed Windows 10 64 bit on my PC. Nothing hot swap about it now that I can find. Under Windows 7 64 bit it was genuinely hot swap. It was the simplest thing to install and use. With Win 10 I need to power off the PC, remove the HDD installed, insert the required HDD and power on again. I can't find a solution so this is a last resort :-( . From what I've found...
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FazzaGBR
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Posted Sep 12, 2019
Great for 2.5" SATA but misleading on SAS
Great for quickly connecting 2.5" SATA drives so they can be wiped but it's misleading to suggest that this is a SAS to SATA convertor as unless you have a SAS controller they wont work and if you have a SAS controllor you'd surely just connect the SAS hard disk drive to that? No idea what you'd plug this in to, to be able to read/write to a SAS drive.
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rowingpeter_s
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Posted Jun 19, 2019
Not the great time saver I was expecting
No instructions of any kind ship with this caddy so spent first 1hr trying to slide the SSD onto the connector before closing the lid. Eventually discover that you place the SSD in place and it slides onto the internal connectors AS you close the lid. Once got past that stage thought I was home and dry but the screw locations for mounting the 3.5" box into a HP Server c...
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BDBaer
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Posted Jun 28, 2018
Did not work for me
First: could not just slide in the 2.5 drive into the converter, (about 1/2 an inch stuck out the back) in the end I just removed the 8 or 9 screws placed the drive and reassembled the converter. Second: the mounting holes did match the pins on my Dell’s mount.
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Nivek
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Posted Nov 22, 2017
Works Well
This is a decent product. I used it to put a 2.5 SSD in my tower workstation. It fit and worked well.
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Nick71
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Posted Oct 16, 2017
Solid performance, not so solid build.
OK, so I tried to use it internally, but the mount holes don't line up at all (can't move it forward or back in the Lenovo or CoolerMaster case internal positions I tried since they use plastic spacers that fit into the drive holes, which of course, don't line up. My son's PC is built inside an older case that has a 3.5" floppy slot. This chassis works fine in that slot...
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NickD_CA28
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Posted Oct 15, 2017
Cheap but works
The hard drive adaptor has been working well for me but physically very cheap and with limited mounting options, could be better. The hard drive adaptor comes in a box just barely bigger than 3.5 inch hard drive. It is made of all black plastic and raddles like there are loose parts inside when either empty or with a drive installed. When you put a drive in it, the case...
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Andrew11
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Posted Oct 13, 2017
A little confusing but works (needs instructions)
I admit that when I first got this out of the box, I didn’t know how to open the flap to access the inside of the adapter. I am not sure what symbol would have triggered my brain to pull the release catch outward, but the symbol on it just didn’t clue me in. I was also puzzled how to remove a drive once put into the adapter, there is an internal mechanism attached to th...
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eddypo
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Posted Oct 3, 2017
Does what I needed it to do
I had a spare 2.5 inch hard drive and an open 3.5 inch bay in my desktop. This drive enclosure let me put my 2.5 inch drive into the enclosure and mount it into my desktop as additional storage. The case does feel a bit thin and cheap and the lock fell off the first time I used it. I had no issues with the lock after I put it back on. Must of came loose during shipping....
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macphot1970
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Posted Oct 1, 2017
Nice adapter - simple build quality
This is a good quality adapter to take 2.5 drives to 3.5. I don't think the design is bad at all but the build of the unit feels cheap compared to some of the other adapters I have had. The performance of the adapter is great and can not be faulted at all. It installed perfectly into my tower and caused zero issues. Overall the product works well. "I received this produ...
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hospitaltech474
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Posted Apr 27, 2016
Mounting holes are incorrect
We purchased 10 of these only to find out that the side mounting holes do not line up with the side mount holes on a standard 3.5" HDD. This is turn made them useless for upgrading our HP AIO because the HDD caddy is made to line up with a standard HDD mounting points. Also, the threading for said points are fine... as opposed to all standard HDD having coarse threads.
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