So I found out there's these things you can plug and internal hard drive unit into like a 3.5-Inch drive and it converts it to a USB input rather than an sata that's within the PC itself. I was looking at picking up a Toshiba 20tb internal hard drive unit for my PC. When I saw this item on Amazon. It's a Sabrent USB C lay flat docking station for 3.5" drives. I wanna know if this is just a simple plug and play and if it's good or not? I plan on traveling so I was thinking of getting this and a 20tb 3.5" drive to carry around and bring with me for my laptop. Are these any actual good and is it as simple as a USB input no PC required? I don't really know how these work.

Is This Hard Drive Converter Any Good?

By APCNewbie209
April 4 in Storage Devices

Go to solution Solved by Paddo, April 4

3.5" Drives need an additional 12V power source to work because USB alone isn't enough. Could be an issue when you are traveling and don't have a power outlet nearby. The hard drive wouldn't fully utilize the 10Gbit connection either. I think it would be best to go for pure NVMe storage. They are lighter, not as easily damaged by drops and faster than HDDs. The only thing that makes HDDs better is price per GB. If you NEED 20TB of storage go for the HDD, if 4-8TB are enough go nvme or at least 2.5" SSD.

Also yes, it should be plug 'n play and show up as removable storage not matter the drive you put in there.

Posted April 5

16 minutes ago, OddOod said:

For the first 500MB, yes. Once the cache is full it falls back to the standard 100MB/s

This is most likely because the 50gb file isn't fully sequential, which disk drives really struggle at. hdd's don't use their cache in this way when reading or writing sequentially.

From kitguru:

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The MG10 produced very consistent performance when it came to handling the larger file sizes with an average write figure for the six large file transfers of 284MB/s. The fastest write performance was the BluRay movie at 287MB/s while the fastest read speed came from the 5GB image transfer at 289MB/s. The slowest of the file transfers was the 50GB File Folder, full of small bity files, with writes at 159MB/s and reads at 115MB/s.