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How many times have you upgraded your hard drive, only to have realized days later that there are files on your old hard drive that you still need? If you are a computer enthusiast like we are, how many old hard drives do you have laying around collecting dust? External hard drive enclosures are nice, but they are far from convenient when you need to quickly test or pull files off a hard drive. In the past we have seen numerous USB to hard drive adapters. They are extremely convenient, but most come with a massive entanglement of adapters and cables. Kingwin has a simple solution to the problem, remove the outdated IDE portion of the adapter and leave only the SATA interface. Next you upgrade it to USB 3.0 and you just may have the best USB hard drive adapter on the market. Let's take a look at Kingwin's new EZ-Connect USI-2535U3 USB 3.0 to SATA adapter.
Features
Specifications Compatibility: All 2.5"/3.5" SATA hard drives Interface: Standard SATA Support: USB 3.0 Transfer Speed: 5 Gbps Dimension: 2 1/8" (55mm)W x 2 1/2" (60mm)L x 1/2" (12mm)H Weight: 1.5 lbs (681g) / Unit
As I mentioned before, this new adapter is simplified and only needs 2 cables; power and the USB cable. Therefore the only thing you need are the power adapter and USB cable. No extra interface adapters and pin changers are needed as with older IDE/SATA to USB adapters.
As you can see from the image above, the adapter is very small, measuring only 2 1/8" wide x 2 1/2" long x 1/2 high. It's the most compact adapter we've seen to date.
Below is the adapter connected to a standard WD SATA hard drive. The power adapter connects to the left side while the USB cable connects to the bottom. This is the most simple to use USB HDD adapter we have ever seen. Even the novice computer user would have no trouble using this device.
Performance Today we'll be using our new Gigabyte X58-USB3 motherboard with an Intel Core i7 950 with 6GB of DDR3 memory. For the hard drive, we will be using a typical 1TB SATA Western Digital Caviar Black Edition. All benchmarks were accomplished with HD Tach. Bench 1 - USB 2.0 The first benchmark we used a USB 2.0 port on the Gigabyte X58-USB3. Unfortunately, not all the ports on this motherboard are USB 3.0, but the two USB 3.0 ports will get the job done. As you can see below, we have data read speeds of around 34 MB/s and write speeds of about 30 MB/s. This is slightly above our average test speeds over the years and is about the best you can expect from a USB 2.0 interface.
Bench 2 - USB 3.0 Next we plug the device into one of the USB 3.0 ports on the Gigabyte motherboard. The results with HD Tach are absolutely amazing! Thanks to USB 3.0, we have tripled the data read and write speeds using the Kingwin EZ-Connect hard drive adapter.
Conclusion The Kingwin EZ-Connect USI-2535U3 USB 3.0 to SATA adapter is the easiest to use USB to SATA adapter we've seen. It's very compact with only a power cable and a USB cable to deal with. No extra adapters or tangled up cables to mess with. With the latest USB 3.0 technology, data to transfers just got a whole lot faster...3x as fast to be exact. Keep in mind that this device is also backwards compatible with USB 2.0, so if you don't currently have a USB 3.0 motherboard or interface card, the Kingwin EZ-Connect will still operate at USB 2.0 speeds. Once again Kingwin has brought us an incredibly useful tool that no computer enthusiast should be without. 5 stars all the way!
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