Sata 3 USB 3.0 enclosure

Brianmcv

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Hi,
I just purchased an SSD to use as an external drive, however I am struggling to find an enclosure for it that is both SATA 3 and USB 3.0 - I don't really understand the point of having one and not the other. Quite a few of the. USB 3.0 ones are Sata 2, but still advertise speeds of 5 Gbps which I don't understand how they can get away with when Sata 2 is limited to 3 Gbps.

Anyone know of any affordable ones that have both?

Cheers
 

Deepinmind2001

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Both of these enclosures say they are SATA III compatible but the manuals say they only support SATA II speeds. So you only get 3Gb/s.