The alternative to buying new external hard drives. With the renkforce hard drive enclosure, you can continue to use removed hard drives from laptops or PCs as external drives. Perfect for data backup, protected from dust and dirt. It works with all 6.35 cm (2.5 inch) SATA HDDs or SATA SSDs. No installation into the PC case is necessary. The hassle of unscrewing the PC case and the time-consuming installation is completely eliminated. Just connect via USB - done. The PC recognizes the hard drive as an external computer drive. Create backups through the USB port. The converter turns any 6.35 cm (2.5 inch) SATA hard drive into an external USB drive. This makes it easy to recover pictures, music, or documents from old hard drives and create backups. Rubberized casing: No data loss due to shocks. Strong impacts can render a hard drive unreadable and unrecognized by a PC. With rubberized casings, your data is protected from shocks. Status LED. The integrated LED on the hard drive enclosure indicates whether data is currently being processed, thus preventing accidental removal of the hard drive. SuperSpeed USB 3.0. Speed up your data transfer and connect smartphones and tablets via USB 3.0 to your computer. Transfer large amounts of data, such as HD movies and photos, within seconds at speeds of up to 5 GB/s. Compared to USB 2.0, this offers ten times the data transfer rate. Backward compatible with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1. Of course, the USB 3.0 hard drive enclosure is also backward compatible with previous USB specifications, achieving the maximum transfers of the respective specification. Bus powered. The hard drive enclosure is bus-powered, meaning the power supply comes from your PC or laptop. No additional power supply is needed.