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eSATA to USB 3.0 Adapter
for SuperSpeed data transfer!

Connect your eSATA equipped external drive to a USB 3.0 port.
Already have an external drive with an eSATA port? Take advantage of high-bandwidth USB 3.0 performance and experience data rates up to 5Gb/s from your external drive with the NewerTech eSATA to USB 3.0 Adapter. It's Plug and Play easy to add...simply connect your eSATA drive enclosure to the adapter and then plug the adapter into your computer's USB 3.0 port. No drivers, no hassle, just maximum performance and ultimate use of your existing eSATA equipped external storage units.

Easy Three Step Set-Up
  1. Power on your eSATA equipped external drive.
  2. Connect the NewerTech Adapter to the external drive via a standard eSATA cable.
  3. Connect the NewerTech Adapter to the USB 3.0 port on your computer via included USB 3.0 cable. USB 2.0 also supported.
Once you're set up, use your drive like any other external storage device but now with the speed advantage of USB 3!

Take a closer look at NewerTech's eSATA to USB 3.0 Adapter.
Key Features:
  • Supports SATA Revision 3.x
    data rate up to 5.0Gb/s.
  • Plug and Play, no software installation.
  • Supports Hot-Swap.
Note: This adapter is intended for an eSATA equipped external drive to connect to a USB 3.0 port on a computer. It does not work in reverse
and will not allow a USB 3.0 equipped external drive to connect to an eSATA port on a computer. Note: This product does NOT support port multiplication.

Features:

  • Supports SATA Revision 3.x data rate up to 5.0Gb/s.
  • Supports 2.5" and 3.5" eSATA hard disk drives and SSDs
  • Plug and Play, no software installation.
  • Backward compatible with previous versions of USB 2.0/1.1.
  • Backward compatible with previous versions of eSATA devices (3.0Gb/s and 1.5Gb/s).
  • Supports Hot-Swap.
  • 1 Year NewerTech Product Limited Warranty

Connections:

Includes:

  • NewerTech eSATA to USB 3.0 Adapter
  • One USB 3.0 cable (Type-A to Type-A)

eSATA to USB 3.0 Adapter Specifications:

Macintosh Requirements

  • Notebook or Desktop Mac with an available and supported USB 3.0 port (USB 3.0 recommended) Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later.

Windows Requirements

  • Notebook or Desktop PC with an available USB 3.0 port (USB 3.0 recommended) Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, VISTA, 7 or later.

Dimensions

  • 2.25in x 2.5in x .75in DxWxH (57.3mm x 64.2mm x 19mm)

Weight

  • 1.0oz (28.35g)

Recommended USB 3.0 Cards

Note: Some older operating systems, as well as computers not equipped with a USB 3.0 port, will not support the speed
improvements of USB 3.0, but will still work with this adapter via USB 2.0 standards.
Manufacturer provided specifications for Newer Technology p/n ADESATA6USB3 UPC#: 811643013308

Customer Ratings

Write a Review 4.8 / 5 14 out of 15 (93%) reviewers would recommend this product
Verified Buyer
Reviewer: Rick4ls Location: Columbia, MD Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 3/5 Does not support multiple disk enclosure April 10, 2019 Works find for a single disk. However, it does not support mounting multiple disks. So with a 4 drive JBOD enclosure (using Softraid), only the first is visible.

Please update the web site to state that it only supports a mounting a single drive and therefore will not work with JBOD configuration and Softraid.

Response from OWC, Call Center April 10, 2019 Hello! We are very sorry to hear about any issues you may have been having with your NewerTech eSATA to USB adapter. We do have a note on the website stating that this does not support Port Multiplication, which would be required for a multi-disk unit. We do apologize if this was unclear in anyway.
Verified Buyer
Reviewer: MacFreak Location: TLV Age: 45-54 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Excelent! July 4, 2018 My old "Newer Technology miniStack v3 eSATA/FireWire/USB2.0 Enclosure Kit with Integrated FW/USB Hubs" is alive again. It works at great speed thanks to the eSATA adapter. Cheap and wonderful solution.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

Verified Buyer
Reviewer: eyedoc Location: Ankeny IA Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 eSATA April 5, 2018 Easy way to get faster transfer speeds for computers not equipped directly for eSATA. Simple and easy.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

Verified Buyer
Reviewer: JonS
Rating: 5/5 Near perfect February 18, 2018 Works great to connect to a USB3 port. Does NOT work if you connect it to a Thunderbolt 2 port.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Adelaide, Australia Age: 25-34 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: over 6 months
Rating: 5/5 Works perfectly! March 26, 2016 Great product and personally very much needed as there is less and less eSata connections available on the outside of PC's. Used this with my very old Voyager Q dock and it worked fine. Great transfer rate.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

Verified Buyer
Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Arizona Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Easy connection and works great December 4, 2015 Had an old Iomega 500GB drive which was used as an expansion drive for the DVR box. Using this eSATA adapter with the old drive, plugging in into an open USB 3.0 port on my PC provides 500GB of new storage space for the PC, on a separate drive.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

Verified Buyer
Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Pasadena, CA Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 a great solution for my legacy drives August 20, 2015 I have Firewire to Thunderbolt, but that has been unreliable for me, and it is slow. My personal experience with USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt has been that they provide about the same speed with moving drives. So, this eSATA to USB 3.0 adapter has been great. I speed tested this adapter on a G-Raid with USB 3.0 and eSATA with the adapter was only a few Kbs slower than the USB 3.0 connection. Also, I got much better speeds via this adapter and eSATA than I did with Firewire 800 to Thunderbolt.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Dunedin, New Zealand Age: 45-54 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 Great adapter if you have powered ports August 16, 2015 I use this with my MacBook Pro via my OWC 12 Port Thunderbolt 2 Dock.

The MacBook Pro does not provide enough power to run this directly off the Mac, but my Dock does. It makes and old eSATA/USB 2.0 useful again.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

Verified Buyer
Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Dublin, Ireland Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 A neat solution June 19, 2015 These work really well with the Thunderbolt 2 dock

I would recommend this item to a friend!

Verified Buyer
Reviewer: Anonymous Location: princeton, nj Age: 55-65 Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Simple Fast Adapter January 2, 2015 Works exactly as it should. Easy to set-up and good price. Use with Firmtek Hard Drives on Retina i Mac.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

Verified Buyer
Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Raleigh NC Age: Over 65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months
Rating: 5/5 Compact; easy to use; price performer October 31, 2014 This device is exactly what I needed. It is simple, compact and functions flawlessly. On top of that, it's a great value for the money.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

Verified Buyer
Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Fresno, CA Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User
Rating: 5/5 Great Adapter-Great Value August 23, 2014 Nice to be able to use the esata port on my OWC Mini external HD.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

Verified Buyer
Reviewer: Anonymous Age: 25-34 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Plug and Play Simplicity August 3, 2014 I have a G-technology RAID that has Firewire, USB 2.0 and eSATA, so when I got a new mac with USB 3.0 I knew this would give me the best performance. The adaptor just works, no external power needed, no drivers to install, It's great.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

Verified Buyer
Reviewer: Anonymous Location: New York. NY Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Excellent Solution March 10, 2014 Plug and play. Does just what is says and does it well. Haven't seen the full USB 3 spec, 5 GB/sec throughput but transfer speeds are extremely fast.

If you do not use the supplied USB 3 cable (very short), make sure you use a "USB 3" cable!

I would definitely recommend this solution for USB 3 to eSATA.

~Mark

I would recommend this item to a friend!

Verified Buyer
Reviewer: Macmuchmore Location: Fort Worth, TX Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month
Rating: 5/5 Excellent tool! February 24, 2014 This adapter has given new life to an old USB2/FW800/eSATA hard drive. I had stopped using this drive because I moved to a new MacBook Pro that did not have FW800 ports, USB2 was way too slow and my MBP did not have any way to connect via eSATA - that is until now. The connection is as fast as it was using native eSATA, but now with the convenience of USB! I couldn't be happier! However, if I could change one thing, it would be that the USB3 cable was just a little longer. To the people who are unhappy with this device: I think you are trying to use this adapter to connect USB 3 drives to an eSATA port. This device only works one way, which is eSATA device to USB3 on your computer. I do not know of any device that will connect a USB3 hard drive to an eSATA port.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

NewerTech eSATA to USB
3.0 Adapter for SuperSpeed data transfer! Mfr P/N: ADESATA6USB3 OWC SKU: NWTADESATA6USB3 1 Year Newer Technology Limited Warranty
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