APRICORN MASS STORAGE UNIVERSAL USB HARD DRIVE ADPT

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Performs nicely! n n

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I recently bought a new really hard drive for my laptop and did not feel like going by way of the trouble of formatting the drive, installing windows 7, drivers, and all my applications. So I decided to attempt this out. The software that comes with this is great, straightforward to use/understand and fairly fast. If you're looking to do a "bit level" copy/transfer...appear no additional, this is an outstanding decision. The only con I can feel of is the physical dimensions of the device. This is hardly a con but when a SATA drive is connected to the unit, the drive is slightly raised off the ground, which mechanically tends to make the device far more fragile than if the device and tough drive sat flush on a surface Just get it, you wont regret it.

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I've applied this to clone drives, and also to recover data from numerous drives. I can't consider going with out it now! It just makes life so substantially easier, since you can recover data, scan drives, what ever... No need to have to open up a case and plug into the Computer to see what's on the drive. The separate power supply suggests that you are not depending on the USB provide for energy. Excellent tool. None genuinely! If cloning the drive, boot from the included CD, and get out of the way - let it do it's issue. It'll work, and will partition the new drive with the similar proportions as the original drive. I haven't tried it with a CD drive however, but will when I purchase my netbook.

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Very easy to use when it's set up. Drag and drop operates fine.I had a main O\S crash and could not access loved ones pictures on my laptop. I thought we had lost almost everything.I purchased Drivewire unit as a final attempt work.I was able to recover all of the music and images which had been almost lost.I was in a position to rebuild the drive and have the laptop back up and running within 1 day. Could have a longer power cord. I have a tower drive which had a file crash. I am going to try that one subsequent.

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Newegg was rapidly in shipping, too negative the item was horrible Did an superb job of burning out two of my hard drives (which I didn’t realize till the next day when I attempted to access them). For those of you interested in the identical practical experience I couldn’t much more very suggest Apricorn. Now if we could just get them to start off creating airbags and seatbelts I’d be in heaven (literally).

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Very basic to hook up to current IDE or PATA and SATA drives. I had a Toshiba laptop die on me, and with this device I easily hooked up the laptop's harddrive and backed up all of my important data in minutes!! Then I sold the laptop for parts on e-Bay!!! This was also wonderful for moving information from my old IDE challenging drive to my new SATA system by way of USB. Enjoy THIS Thing! If you need to have to back up or conserve anything from an old system - GET THIS and don't appear back! None. Does exactly what it says. And if you complain that it won't connect to eSATA gear, then you require to learn to READ THE Item description ahead of you order! Some people complain about the "short" power chord which is around four' extended. Stop whining and and use an extension chord. When I purchased this in March 2009 it was ื.99 with a 10-buck instant NewEgg financial savings and a ten-buck mail-in rebate. For ฤ total, you can afford to obtain an extension chord!!

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Straightforward flawless operation. Easy setup, XP drive letter recognition on plug in. When connected to drive, device is not equal with bottom of external drive. Could place some strain on the connection. Solved by dropping device over edge of function table.

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Operates with three varieties of drives. Software program is very effortless to use and worked on a drive that had know read errors with no difficulties, that is a Enormous plus. Anything you want to clone drives by way of the USB port. Slow, I believe this is partly due to the USB and partly due to my drive possessing some read errors. A should have for any IT guy or any laptop owner, tends to make cloning difficult drives a snap.

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An exceptional minimalist remedy to external drive hookups. SATA and two PATA interfaces which connect by means of usb. Drives quickly turn out to be accessible for backup/cloning and so forth.No need to have to devote additional for unreliable and fancy enclosures. none

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Extremely straightforward to use! None. Good item. I utilised this to upgrade my IBM Thinkpad T60 from its 80GB harddrive to a new 250GB drive. I followed instructions I read on the web for Thinkpads to put the new drive in the pc and the old drive in this adapter. Worked like a charm the initially time I tried it. Took about 45 minutes to clone the information, and the new drive booted like a champ. I have a decent, but not super-technical, know-how of this stuff. This item made it quite effortless to upgrade my drive.

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This item is a life saver. you can use it to grab important files off a courrupt hardrive. i mainly use it as a backup and a hardrive exclosure given that i have quite a few older harddrives layiong close to. this this is sturdy. took it apart and it is one strong disk which is a good thing. ordering yet another. i didnt attempt incredibly hard but i couldnt get it to boot from. great product!

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Operates, fast, reliable and wonderful hardware. Computer software (when you get it operating for your configuration) is noting much less than excellent. physical set up a bit flimsy when cables and drives are attached but since it's not permanent that's not so poor. If you do not comprehend how to manipulate partitions on XP media edition that can be a challenge so go by way of the forums on this. A simple clone with only one particular partition on your tricky drive will go excellent. Totally good price from NewEgg for this item. I extremely advocate it. I employed this to upgrade the challenging drive on my Dell laptop and couldn't be additional please with the end outcome.

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Functions wonderful hot swapable tiny Does NOT perform with Vista 64 bit. They say they are operating on it, i guess we will see. If you dont own one your crazy. Lost an egg for working for vista 32 but not 64 bit.

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I'm an IT assistance tech, so I will need this this unit badly. It's solid, does specifically what it's supposed to do. The unit is under no circumstances flush with your challenging drive, so the drive is generally at an angle; this happens with both 2.five" and 3.5" drives). Pretty lame style selection. Not positive but I would think that it could possibly bring about damage to drive pins. Only time will inform I guess. The energy cable is extremely short, but I just replaced it with a standard desktop energy cable and it operates completely.If I had to do it over again, I would almost certainly buy the Vantec kit instead.

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Small and compact, ideal to the point. Newegg says it has IDE port. The specs does not. Really should have read the fine print. Just trying to retain the economy going.

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Functions wonderful with Vista. The computer software easy to use. Clone and set up. None

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Automatic energy off when USB is disconnected. Solid molex connector (way much better than other individuals I've utilized). No need to carry about a SATA cable like other individuals. Good hunting style. Great value with rebate. None This thing is a Have to HAVE! Would be good if tiny pouch was integrated.

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I haven't used the included software program, but I have read various various drives with this device and it has worked fantastic! None Energy cable may be a bit short, but it will accept any regular energy cord so it's a non issue.

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easy to use comes with cloning computer software modify your booting order to boot from your cd none

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I bought this adapter in March of 2008, and it has performed flawlessly since then. I use it often with my desktops and laptops - right now I'm backup up my wife's new Acer One particular Aspire, which doesn't have an internal optical drive, with an old ASUS SATA DVD - burned recovery disks, no challenge. XP SP2 operates with my Vista x64, Toshiba XP SP3, all of my seriously old OEM IDE three.5" and two.five" tough drives. The EZ Gig II computer software operates but you have to be genuinely cautious - I as soon as attempted working with the disk clone function to back up my laptop to a USB external HD, with the default settings, and it absolutely wiped my laptop's disk, with the backup nowhere to be located on the external HD. Luckily, I had employed the EZ Gig software to make a comprehensive backup a handful of months just before, so was in a position to restore it working with the EZ Gig application - so just be actually cautious - just use the Backup function, or other, safer software program. I'm giving it a 5 for the hardware, but knocking it down 1 for the integrated EZ GIG II software program. Newegg continues to provide!!!

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I had to clone a challenging drive with negative sectors prior to it was totally gone. This item was just plug and play. A extremely fantastic expertise. None

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Easy and very simple to use. Fairly rapid method. It only took 36 min to clone a 50GB challenging drive. EZGIG III also cloned the hidden partition of the source drive. Power cord is short. If you want to use various instances. far better make a copy of CD of software program in case original CD gets scratched.

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Really handy in transferring data from pc to external hard disk drive. With connections for each PATA and SATA drives this is particularly fantastic in this period of transition. Worked fine. 1 has to exercise important care to appropriately plug the adapter to the drive so not to bend pins but make specific of very good connection.

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Operates with SATA and PATA. Efficient power provide. Really excellent cloning computer software included. Greatest worth in a cloning package (hardware and computer software.) None. I used this to upgrade three various systems...two laptops and one particular desktop. It worked flawlessly for all of them...SATA and PATA.

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I have this for much less than a week and I clone and alter one of my laptop tough drive, from 100 GB to 320 GB and was not that difficult. It have a system that enable to know if your tricky drive perform well. I so far satisfy with it. I have two more laptop to upgrade and with this kit it will be easy. none so far.