Product Description

The 2.5 inch SATA hard drive enclosure enables you to turn a 2.5 inch SATA hard drive into an external USB 2.0 storage device.

Easy to set up and offers hi-speed USB 2.0 (up to 480Mbps) data transfer rate and backward compatibility USB 1.1.

Ideal for all those music tracks, videos, data backups and transfer between machines.

Please Note: This external enclosure is suitable for 2.5" SATA (Serial ATA) hard drive only and is not suitable for IDE (ATA/PATA) hard drive. It will accept only 9.5mm high hard drive (not the older 12.5mm hard drive).

Features
- Aluminium body for better cooling and protection
- Hot swappable and truly Plug and Play
- One Touch Backup (Windows OS only)
- No driver needed (except for Windows 98SE)
- Self powered - no external power needed
- Compact size and lightweight

Specifications
- Supports 2.5" SATA hard disk drive up to 320GB (9.5mm high)
- High-Speed USB 2.0 (up to 480Mbps) data transfer rate and backward compatibility USB 1.1.
- Dimensions: 4.7" x 2.9" x 0.5" (125mm x 73mm x 13mm)

Package Contents
- 2.5" SATA Hard Drive Enclosure
- Carrying Pouch
- USB Connecting Cable
- User Manual
- Driver CD (For Windows 98SE)
- Screwdriver
- Screws

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #671 in Consumer Electronics
• Model: BKS25

Features

• Aluminum body for protection and excellent heat dissipation
• Supports 2.5" laptop SATA hard disk drive up to 320GB (9.5mm high)
• Hot swappable and truly Plug and Play, No driver needed (except for Windows 98SE)
• Self powered - no external power needed
• Supports Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7 and Mac OS 8.6 or above

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Customer Reviews

Great Value
Bought this to utilise the old 40GB drive from PS3 after upgrade.
The drive fits VERY snugly into the enclosure and I hope overheating will not be an issue in the future.Windows XP will not at first recognise the drive even though you hear the ding sounds and it tells you it's installed and ready to use.
You need to find it in device manager and run the initialize wizard to assign a drive letter,then format it and you'll be good to go.
Overall a good buy and well worth 8 quid.

Excellent!!
Excellent!! Recently upgraded PS3 to 320GB and wondering what to do with the 80GB taken out. Ordered this Black Nexons 2.5" USB 2.0 External Caddy/Enclosure For 2.5" SATA Hard Drive, followed the simple fitting instructions, formatted the drive in Vista Disk Management and job done. Not bad at all for £8.98 (£4.99+£3.99p&p)!
If you want it to be usable as an external drive for a PS3 then format in FAT32 (with partitions no larger than 32GB) else preferably use NTFS for standard PC use. Or a combination of both even.

A suitable way to enclose your SATA HDD
I bought this product after I upgraded my PS3 from a 40GB to a 320GB HDD. Knowing that I wouldn't be able to sell on the old HDD I researched into the field of SATA 2.5 inch enclosures. It seems that the majority of these enclosures fufil the same criteria, they are cheap and function as intended. The pricier options tend to be more aestheitcally pleasing or provide other blinking LED lights.

The product is nicely packaged and comes with a case (abeit rather cheap in nature), a mini USB to two USB cable, the enclosure, a disk, a small instruction manual and 3 tiny screws and a small screwdriver.

The installation of the SATA HDD into the enclosure is rather difficult. The enclosure is made of two parts, the casing and the front end which connects the drive into the ports. Having no technical knowledge in the field of computers or computer parts this whole procedure was alien to me. Thankfully it is rather easy, despite the less than clear manual. The casing is a very tight fit for the drive and at times I was worried that the drive may be damaged whilst I was installing it. However with a little patience the drive will fit very snuggly into the casing. You will only need two of the screws to fix the enclosure in place, leaving one of the screws as a spare.

The instructions were of very little use in terms of formatting the drive. After some searching online I found the correct protcol.

Windows XP users
1) Plug your new portable HDD into your computer with the supplied USB cable

2) The computer will recognise the HDD and go through the motions of installation of a new piece of hardware, until the "your new hardware has been installed sucessfully".

3) Access "Computer Management" by right clicking on the "My Computer" icon and selecting "manage". Under "Storage" is an option for "Disk management".

4) Clicking on this will show any disks that the computer is currently using and any disks that are attached. The new disk should be of X GB depending upon the size of the SATA HDD. Right click the drive and choose "Format". NTFS is the only selectable option if the drive is too large. Fear not as it is relatively simple to change it to FAT32. Make sure you are formatting your external disk and not the "(system)" disk.

5) If you are planning on using the portable drive for your computer/laptop then you will not need to format it to FAT32. If like me you will want to connect it to the PS3, then you will have to format it into FAT32 (which the PS3 recognises, unlike NTFS). Be warned, the maximum size of a single file for FAT32 storage devices is 4GB.

6) I downloaded the free "Swissknife" program, which can format your portable HDD to FAT32 in a matter of seconds.

The enclosure is surprisingly smart and sleek given the price. It is made from plastic and aluminium combo and is black in colour. As of yet I have had no problems with its functioning on my PS3 or my laptop, although the transfer rates seem to be slower than that of my iPod and other passport devices (WD portable drives). There is a red LED to inform you that the device is plugged in, and there appears to be a separate power socket (although no cable is supplied, and as of yet I have not needed another power source bar the USB cable). Overall I recommend this if you are looking for a cheap way to turn your old PS3 hard drive into a rather useful portable one.