Product DescriptionSATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter The SATA/IDE to USB Adapter gives you the flexibility of connecting almost any type of drive to your computer via USB. SATA, 3.5” IDE, 5.25” IDE, and 2.5” IDE drives are all supported and can be easily hot-swapped to your system. The included external power adapter will allow you to power your drives outside your system giving you the ability to quickly add or swap between drives without opening your case. The SATA/IDE-USB adapter incorporate 3 interfaces to one USB adapters.
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Rating: - JUNK
I got one of these from Cyberguys as well as a 1TB SATA drive. Long story short - I actually sent the SATA drive back because it showed up as defective. Then I tried a 500GB IDE. Copied files to it which later all became corrupt. I now think the SATA may have been good but this adapter is "corrupt".
Rating: - Easy hard drive access
This is a very useful device for anyone with a bit of experience tinkering under the hood of a computer. The package includes:
- the actual adapter itself, which provides an USB connection to 3 different types of hard drive connectors -- 5.25" / 3.5" IDE, 2.5" IDE, and SATA.
- an IDE (4-pin MOLEX) power adapter.
- one SATA-to-SATA data cable.
- one IDE (4-pin MOLEX) power to SATA power adapter.
- a mini-CD containing a manual and drivers. It is not necessary to ... Read More
Rating: - Maybe OK for casual use, not for large files
I bought this product to copy drive images from older systems to some new 500GB internal drives that I purchased for this purpose. I had some serious problems with copying the images to the drives (through the dongle), with it typically bombing out around 40MB on USB 1.1 systems and around 500MB on USB 2.0 systems. After messing around with it for a few hours (and discovering that smaller files worked just fine), I began to get the feeling that it was a faulty product. After trying another Vantec ... Read More
Rating: - Hard Drive copy device
Vantec USB 2.0 to SATA (Serial ATA)/IDE Adapter
It works very well. With the outboard power supply and this device attached to a Hard Drive it is a piece of cake to copy any HD and save all the data to another computer or portable HD using USB 2.0 to transfer
the DATA
Rating: - Incredibly useful geek tool!
Love this tool! I have used it with my MacBook Pro, my G5 iMac, my wife's Gateway laptop and a Dell desktop.
You can attach any device, CD-ROM, SATA or IDE Hard Drive and they just show up on the desktop with no drivers required.
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Electronics : Vantec P N:Cb-Isatau2 Sata Ide To Usb 2.0 Adapter
- JUNK
- Easy hard drive access
- Maybe OK for casual use, not for large files
- Hard Drive copy device