StarTech.com USB C to SATA Adapter - External Hard Drive Connector for 2.5'' SATA Drives - SATA SSD / HDD to USB C Cable (USB31CSAT3CB)

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These are stand-alone devices that provide: the power to the drive and various interfaces for connecting to your device whether it be a desktop, a laptop, or something else.

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Interface – There are two common interfaces found in the market: IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) and SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment). It is available in a single Space Grey color variant with a black colored strip and supports both SSD and mechanical HDD. Best USB 3 Flash Drives for the iPhone 15 Series Thanks to the almighty (and the EU), the iPhone 15 series of phones finally have USB-C ports.Most of these cables are plug-and-play, which means you can just connect the SATA port on the adapter to the drive, and then plug the other end of the cable into the USB port on your PC. This is different than a typical “flash drive” which uses extremely cheap memory and has very low random I/O performance/throughput compared to a real solid state drive. SATA drives are normally designed to be mounted inside the computer, which requires opening its case and attaching them to the ports on its motherboard. Apart from this, it supports UASP and you can use it with a compatible device for the best performance.

How to easily connect an internal SSD to a USB-C port - ZDNET

High end “extreme” performance models also tend to draw more power ( Samsung 970 NVMe drives* are some of the fastest in the world but also pretty power hungry for the Pi).For solid state storage older models of solid state drives (SSDs) are also known to draw more power than their newer counterparts. As a result, a lot of consumers faced trouble while trying to connect old IDE disks to this adapter. I’ve covered which adapters work and don’t work in my Native USB Booting Guide as well as my old “workaround” SD + SSD method guide and over the years people have submitted hundreds of comments about which adapters do and don’t work.