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

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I use this particular device because of the various power interchanges as well as it's ability to accommodate SATA and IDE. If you're a tech, you need one. This is my second one and I am getting a third to keep in reserve.

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I had a motherboard crash and this device saved my data, I was able to backup to my laptop with NO problems, including some very old disks. Nice low price Too!!

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Had to image a hard drive without a desktop pc at my disposal. This little collection of odds and ends did the job. Documentation is extremely limited, it took a couple of different

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Works well.

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Bought this item for recovering data from old laptop. It is a complete kit. Has all hard drive connections you will ever need. Great buy.

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I needed to make a hard drive accessible via usb and this product makes it not only possible but easy. Great for cloning laptops!

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I have been a technician for 11 years, and remember having headaches trying to get people's data off of a failed HDD. This product makes life so much easier. Thanks TigerDirect!!!

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I give it three stars because it took me too long to figure out that it wouldn't work with my (removed) laptop HDD unless I didn't use the power adapter. It only works using power from the USB port. That makes it a lot simpler anyway so that's good but a question sent to Sabrent Tech is still unanswered. OK unit but poor instructions and poor support.

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I had mistakenly purchased a DVD RW SATA which was not compatible with my computer's IDE connectors. Rather than pay the return shipping price for a replacement, I decided to buy this product to connect to the computer's USB port and use the drive as an external. 5 minutes to hook it up and the Plug and Play added the drive immediately. Works perfectly! Just be sure to connect the power before plugging in the USB to allow the system to recognize the new device.

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this is very simple to install. Insert and load drivers.... that's all. I was disappointed only by the spedd of my new sata drive. I was hoping I would see a noticeable difference in speed between that and my ide drives.

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The product works great for the price. Had a problem with a Hitachi hard drive, but Western Digitial drives work without a hitch.

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Upon receipt of the adapter I tried to plug a drive into it and found that it is difficult to line up the pins with the wholes and that the adapter has difficulty getting some drives to power up. The instruction sheet is useless.

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Worked great didn't even have to remove the drive from the computer.

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Got this because the mobo on my laptop died(and I hadn't backed up my hdd). I was able to retrieve all the data thanks to this item and coudn't be happier.

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Woks great.

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I work in a non-profit education system and this tool is great for all of our older equipment. It allows me to take my netbook, image a drive and get it going with little effort. Product to me is well worth the money.

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very easy to use. it is great to be able to just plug in cables and go. you do not have to worry about getting it in and out of an enclosure. however, becasue of that, i would not use it for a drive i wanted to leave on long term. but it makes a quick easy fix to access data.

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very easy to setup works great

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Purchased this based on price and need. My computer motherboard crashed and need to retrieve my data. Very please how simple it was to use and recovery all my pertinent data. Price to value is excellent.

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great deal

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Being in the IT industry for years, I've found this tool invaluable at work. I bought this one for home use. It comes in handy for so many reasons. Both SATA & EIDE capable. Good value, works great!

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I think that it is great price an very good quality

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I have several IDE drives from my old computer. Works as advertised. My new computer has vista. Chose this item because I saw others that had problem using vista. I am using my old IDE drives for backing up data. The only thing bad I notice, is the drive seems to spin constantly whether being written-read or not, hasn't been a problem though. Haven't used the SATA feature.

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i got this quick could not get the ide part to reconize any drives got ahold of tect support they sent me a new cable a.s.a.p it did not fix the problem so they sent me a hole new unit which works great did even ask for the old one back these guys are great it's good to fine that there is still someone out that cares about there customers after the sale God bless them

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Works fine with IDE and SATA drive (just remember to set the drive as master!)