SABRENT USB-DSC5 Serial ATA (SATA) or IDE 2.5" and 3.5" to USB 2.0 Cable Converter Adapter

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Openned the box, connected the disk (WD-Caviar 320G eide). Nothing happened. Was scared. But looked at the logic connector, I had put it on the disk upside down. Did it right, the copy is currently running at 6MB/sec.

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it does what it says. no drivers needed. no hassle opening case to plug HDDs. feels little cheap but performes well.

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There is no longer any harddrive that you can't get data from. This converter will do anything you need whether it is a hard drive or a dvd burner. I've used it quite a few times already saving a desktop. This comes with everything you need including all cables and power converters. Definitely worth the buy no matter what the need.

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I originally got this product to recover some files off of my friends hard drive since hs computer crashed. Did everything I wanted it too. Practially plug and play. Very easy to use. Very Happy!!!

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I am a computer technician for over 20 years. I have lots of trouble tools that I work day-in and day-out. But this tool I find very vaulable in my line of work. Whether I am working on a computer system that is 15 years old or the state-of-the-art computer that just came out. I fine this tool very easy to work with either in Linux or Windows.

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I am absolutely impressed with this item. For $20 I was able to save thousands of dollars and thousands of hours worth of work I thought I had lost. It's very easy to use. Just plug the power source into any available outlet, connect the adapter, plug the USB cord into your computer and your computer will recognize it as though it were a flash drive you just pulled off of your key chain. The adapters have no issues, however your OS might need you to change the ownership of the device you're trying to rescue. This step is easy and only takes a couple of clicks. I would highly recommend this product to anyone looking to save thought to be lost memories and money. FYI: Ensure your Anti-virus is up to date to catch any viruses trying to leap from your old device to your computer.

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Product arrived before the scheduled delivery date, worked out of the box with several hard drives. I made sure to plug the drive to the cable before inserting the USB into any machine. With that, I noticed no connection issues. Overall - very pleased with the product.

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I've used three other brands of these USB to hard drive adapters, and this performs as well as much more expensive ones! This gadget is simple to use and worked out of the box with Linux, Windows XP and Windows Vista. (I'll try it on the Mac next -) If it came with male-to-female IDE cables it would be perfect! (I worry about breaking the attached headers.) Once again, this site comes through.

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I was surprised at the price; Best Buy's business distribution system had the same product at twice the price!

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I fix and upgrade older computer systems and I frequently have to rescue or transfer data from older hard drives. This is a cool tool which makes the job easier and less time consuming !

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Worked as advertised. Allows easy checking of bare drives and cloning of drives.

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Worked right out of the box on all of the drives i hooked up. Not bad on transfer speed. Could change drives quick without having to reboot. Very good product.

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I bought this to be able to connect a questionable SATA drive to my working computer in order to transfer files. It worked great and I did not spend alot of money!

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Good product. Worked out of the box. Took me a minute to understand the ide power arrangement. Not a big deal though. Overall the product is solid and works just as described. Worth every penny in my opinion.

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Never have a problem with this thing. Cool thing is, our office bought a bunch of adapters of another brand. the fail alot and always require using the external power supply no matter what kind of drive. I usually always just carry the basic dongle without all the other pieces. Lighten's my load, and I always have to loan it to the other guys who got the free junkie one from work. =)

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Works like a charm. Only disappointment I encountered was that the SATA Cable was much shorter than seen on advertised page. The SATA Cable is less than 7 inches in length... much too short to use this one component of this kit "less than expected as versatile" if you wish at some later date also to use it to install your Hard Drive as a internal drive SATA cable. Other than that this package is really a Good Value for intended use as a external multi-storage device only.

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this prodct is great! and i use it every day---but it could be a little more industral strengh--it doesnt last to long when u use it all day(power supply bricks were faulty after a few months of use) but other than that thumbs up!!

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It worked perfectly. Just like it says it should. I haven't had any problems with it. I have several of these Sabrent IDE/USB adapters for home and work and they are terrific.

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Worked well once I realized that the instructions on setting it up as the master/slave drive were incorrect

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Had no problem worked like a charm in xp pro 32, could no get to load in xp pro 64. Still a great item.

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Not a lot to say about this item, except that is it simply AWESOME!! Well worth the price, excellent value..

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Worked just like it should. I haven't had any problems with it so far. I have several of these Sabrent IDE/USB adapters and the only problems were that two of the cheap power supply bricks were faulty and didn't work, but I took them apart and soldered the bad connections like they should have been when made, they now work ok.

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I am using an old drive to back up all of my documents on three computers. plug n play in an XP machine and a 32 bit vista and a 64 bit vista. worked like a charm.

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This is worth every cent. This is ultimately the best gadget I have in my collection, it works excellent.

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Used to build and repair compters, and have so many old hard drives that I want to throw away, was great to be able to check them out. Also have a server that uses sata, and have needed something like this before.