APRICORN MASS STORAGE UNIVERSAL USB HARD DRIVE ADPT

Comment:
Flawless cloning of my earlier SATA II difficult drives to my new bigger capacity drives. Merely adhere to the directions and enjoy the ease of use. Not genuinely also substantially of a con, but anticipate about a two hour period to clone every drive in the 750GB to 1TB size range by means of the USB connection. Bought an Apricorn laptop external enclosure/cloning software program combo about two years ago. I also had a very excellent encounter with that item as well.

Comment:
Hardware no challenge in Win7, Computer software no issue in Win7Imaging sofware made drive upgrade pefect. none

Comment:
I required to replace a failing Hitachi 40 gig 4200 RPM harddrive from a five-6 year old Toshiba Tecra S1 laptop that was offered to me. I did not want to have to commit $ on a new operating program so I gave this a try.In no way getting performed this just before I identified it is simple to use if you adhere to their directions through the PDF they supply from their website. A single can either boot from the CD (just make confident your CD/DVD drive is initial bootable) or download the software program. I chose the former. The CD will take you step by step and in 10 minutes my Windows XP Pro was transferred to my new 54000 RPM Seagate. The screen will say congratulations when the cloning is comprehensive.I place my new Seagate in and it booted up the really initial time with OS fully in spot. I couldn't be more pleased. The excellent issue about this Drivewire is that it performs with PATA/SATA three.5" harddrives as nicely. None. Just be conscious that the Drivewire is thicker than a two.five" harddrive and so you'll require to spot a thing beneath the harddrive to maintain it from "hanging." Outstanding packaging and excellent content material: Drivewire Harddrive Adapter, CD, power adator, power cord, and USB adapter. Make confident you download their PDF from their internet site. If you comply with their directions you should not have a difficulty. Works with Vista.

Comment:
Works excellent, value is suitable, can't go incorrect in possessing 1, or two. Not easy to clone only one particular partition of a HD to a new HD. Had a single HD with two partitions and purchased two HD's, wanted to clone old drive C to one new HD and old drive D to the other new HD. Had to function on this for awhile. Short energy cord is no challenge, it is a standard electronics AC cord and if your above average you must have some spares, or brief will operate excellent for bench use. No conection problem with adapter, applied on Pata and Sata and it does not have to sit perfectly flat.

Comment:
It's compact...hardware is simple to understand... Software is fully worthless. Won't recognize each drives and let me clone when booting from CD; I had to boot into Win7 to clone the drives. On copying, it killed GRUB, and wiped my Linux partitions entirely off the drive, or killed GRUB and only bothered to clone the Windows partitions (no time to look into why). NO PRINTED Directions. I'm on a Dell Latitude D620 with Win7 Ultimate 64-bit and Ubuntu 10.ten, migrating from magnetic HDD to an SSD, which is why I purchased this kit, it was supposedly supposed to deal with this transfer, and was saving me from upgrading my Acronis application. My hardware completely supports USB two., and the device works fine booted into Windows, but it spits out perpetual, entirely inadequate errors when I use their one-click clone. I appreciate that the software program is straightforward, "idiot-proof", it's just sad that the manufacturer doesn't understand when you do this, you Should give the user error messages they can fully grasp and you Must include these error messages in your assistance KB at your website. It keeps telling me "unable to locate your apricorn upgrade device". What the heck is that supposed to imply? I'm going to keep the hardware, it's good. I'll just use it with Acronis. I wish the manufacturer would've produced far better application!!I'll go back to utilizing Acronis. Only

Comment:
Effortless to use. Performs as advertised. Utilized cloning software I already had and am familiar with. Drive booted up initially time after exchanged with out issues. None Each and every tech must have a single.

Comment:
Great item. Functions as advertised. One of the greatest items because sliced bread. Effortless connection and course of action. Significantly less than 20 minutes to clone a 160 GB Hard Drive to a 250 GB Difficult Drive. None Packaging in a box vs a blister pack would be preferred.

Comment:
Effortless hookup. Does what its supposed to. Couldnt boot from the cd. Had to set up the system and then it was a piece of cake. In no way identified something so effortless to use. Dont neglect to uninstall the plan from your new drive when your completed. Can trigger problems. Far better safe than sorry. Purchased the "ez bus dt" from Apricorn and never ever was capable to figure it out. Nonetheless sits in the closet, unused. Make a decision to try this one to clone a new hdd. Worked perfectly. Paid more than 贄.00 for the "ez bus dt" and only อ.95 for this one. Obtain IT !!!

Comment:
Solid, sturdy construction. Energy cable is short, but good quality. I was concerned about the 4-pin Molex end, but it ended up becoming nice and solid, not at all like the identical energy style inside the case. I have no concerns more than the life of the cable. USB is a bit flimsy by comparison, but this is a normal, replacable A to B kind. Information transfer is rapid, with no errors immediately after several drives on the diverse interfaces. Short power cable. Excellent for bench function, inconveinent for residential (wall) AC. This is a typical, replacable cable as well. I couldn't figure out how IDE was going to get power from the decription. Turns out - The power cable plugs into the unit by means of a four-pin Molex for SATA and two.five" IDE. In the case of the standard IDE, you plug directly into the drive. I like the building of the unit. Best size and weight for a Tech bag. If you recover information from internal drives - this is a great adapter.

Comment:
This solution worked precisely as advertised. Utilized to upgrade a Dell Latitude 1501 hard drive, so required to clone the current drive initial. Per their directions, they advise installing the software program in Windows and running the clone operation from there, which I did. Took about 1 minute per GB to full the complete operation. This was on Windows Vista Simple. I guess you can boot suitable from the CD, and therefore not set up the software program, but I did it from within Windows per their recommendation.The benefit of booting correct from the CD and starting the clone procedure is the new drive won't have the clone software installed following the operation. But I just followed the directions. None. But make confident you have the new drive plugged in to the adapter, the adapter fully powered, and the USB connected and recognized ahead of launching the software. I plugged in the USB immediately after launching the computer software and it didn't see the drive. Basically exiting the software and restarting it solved that difficulty. As one more reviewer pointed out, employing their default settings, it will proportionally resize partitions on the new drive. In my case, I had a 10gb rescue partition ྯ% of the existing total drive space) which the software program wanted to carry over to the new drive. In other words, it was going to use 15% of the new drive for a rescue partition (~= 30gbs) which was entirely unnecessary. To prevent this, you have to set the partition sizes manually which is simple adequate. Just know you want may possibly want to choose your personal partition sizes rather than rely on the default algorithm.

Comment:
Performs specifically as described; no problems at all with this unit. Would very advocate to anybody looking for a device like this. I did not use the incorporated computer software so I can't comment on that. Insanely brief energy cord; what on earth have been they thinking! Fortunately it just uses a regular cord that functions with any regular power supply or monitor. I had extras laying around so I wasn't too bothered by this.

Comment:
Small, compact, and extremely transportable - perfect for an IT tool bag. (This is specifically what I purchased it for.)Supports both 2.5" and 3.five" IDE as properly as SATA drives, all in one particular little adapter.Uses a standard molex power so you can use the internal energy of your Computer if you want to merely crack the side open, fully eliminating the need to have for the energy adapter. I carry a spare energy provide in my tool bag, so I could just plug that in to power this device.It uses a common Pc power cord to connect the power supply to the wall, so you can simply replace the six inch cord they offer with a common 1. Does *NOT* operate with Linux as indicated in the review on 2009-07-25. Employing the System Rescue CD 1.two.three with kernel two.six.29.06 and it sees the USB device as "ID 152d򎋂 JMicron Technologies Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. JM20337 Hi-Speed USB to SATA & PATA Combo Bridge", but no device node is created for the drives I hooked up (which I know are good) and for that reason can\'t be accessed. (Does not promote *nix help on the package, but Mac OSX is built on FreeBSD Unix so it's generally a quite excellent indicator.) Then once again, no drives show up under windoze either, so possibly you want their SW...I can see where plugging the device into a drive and then connecting power could be problematic in that the energy wants enough pressure that it tends to make the adapter want to 'fold more than' the drive, breaking the connector off. Solved by connecting energy very first, but I'm the type of guy who doesn't like power applied when connecting a device.To go along with the final point, it desires a power switch Come on manufacturers! Is it truly that tough to comply with the universal specifications on creating a device comply with the USB Mass Storage Device normal??? Do that and pretty a lot something that can support a flash drive will function. I'm sick to death of all these proprietary formats that need to have special software program to perform or are OS-certain. I've got a whole box of devices of this sort at household that I wasted my money on and I rarely if ever use any of them! Linux is right here to stay and the sooner device makers accept, comprehend, and embrace that truth, the better.I ought to add that I was organizing on purchasing six-eight additional of these if this 1 worked as described. Now I'm $nn poorer and nonetheless looking for a device that does exactly what this 1 was supposed to. (Hopefully the $ten rebate will come to cut my losses somewhat.)NewEgg was amazing as usual - ordered it Thursday afternoon and it was on my desk Monday morning. I wish the item were as great as NewEgg's service!

Comment:
I really like the versatility of this device for upgrading laptop or desktop HDD's. It operates as described. none I wonder if they will make it with any other colors in the future?

Comment:
my 1st clone hdd and what a piece of gear to operate with. effectively worth the income. took about an hour, 25 minutes to get up the nerve but went very nicely. in no way will be afraid of it once again. would extremely suggest this to any person newbie or expert. none whats so ever. new egg is amazing and this drive wire is amazing!!!

Comment:
Super easy to use with Vista Property Fundamental. Great instructions come with the adapter. Set up computer software from CD, connect the new drive to the adapter, power up, plug into USB port - Vista sees it and installs drivers. Run the cloning application (I even manually adjusted the new partition sizes) and wait for the Congratulations message Ƒ.five hours). Turn computer system off, replace old drive with new one and you're good to go. Totally none. I approached this project with trepidation, in no way possessing carried out anything like it before. No troubles. Upgraded the typical Toshiba 80GB drive in Acer Aspire 4315-2004 laptop to a Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB SATA drive and EZ Gig transferred all my settings intact. Energy cord connection to the brick was stiff and at initial drive would not power on until I seated it effectively - my fault and effortlessly rectified. Incredibly delighted with this product; worth every single penny of ฮ.

Comment:
Quickly connects to two.five and 3.five IDE as well as SATA devoid of any cables. Effortlessly recognized by my computer system. Small package for effortless transportation. Not the quickest data rates in the planet, but tiny size and potential to connect all three interface kinds in one particular tool definitely makes up for it. I use it to backup information off drives that can't be accessed by means of the native OS.

Comment:
I use this a lot and like it and the software program CD that comes with it -- really trustworthy and straightforward to use. Performs for SATA, IDE three.5", IDE two.5". Contains AC energy adapter. Following 3 years, it's in no way failed. Is USB two.; but, if they could add ESATA as well/instead of USB, this would be fabulous. Owned a single of these for a extended time. I locate it indispensable for backing up drives, cloning drives, recovering information from failing drives. I don't leave residence with out it (service calls). I plan to get a second 1, a single for the vehicle and one particular for the shop -- tired of carrying back and forth each and every day. Truly, I use this a lot.

Comment:
I didn't obtain this from Newegg. Essentially got it from another outfit. These bridge adapters are indispensible. As absolutely everyone else has mentioned, if your a tech and you don't have 1, properly your nuts. Mine worked for about a week. Then had intermittent issues with XP recognizing there's a removable device. That's what I get for not getting from Newegg. I've attempted other bridge adapters. Most didn't operate well in particular if your employing Ghost to image. I like this unit but Granite bridge adapter is a little greater that this 1. It's far more compact and operates with Ghost seamlessly.

Comment:
This device, whilst getting a really certain use, is extremely valuable. Not too long ago my computer system decided to die on me. The replacement components that I purchased did not come comprehensive with an IDE pata drive. So, I just plugged this thing in and it worked completely A little pricy

Comment:
Newegg shipping was excellent - arrived in 3 days with absolutely free shipping. Manufacturer absolutely failed to clarify software compatibility. They do a very good job of obscuring it on their internet site, only soon after digging about for drivers and then calling the manufacturer did they inform me that they know it doesn't function on 64-bit Windows OS systems (even with backwards compatibility). Why they do not support latest operating systems on a device that is still being provided retail from their site is beyond me, but they ought to at least contain a disclaimer on their web site...as quickly as I spoke to them I mentioned Windows 7 x64 and they mentioned it won't function and I could virtually hear him mouthing "but thanks for the funds". It's not a lot of cash but their strategy i bothersome.Unfortunately they don't provide any linux drivers or I would have employed that to begin with. Now I have to set up an additional proprietary operating system or waste time trying to get it to perform in Fedora under wine. Just downloading the windows xp driver didn't work so if you strategy to do this set aside tim I know this is not a forum, but if somebody makes the device work beneath linux ࿀ or 64), please notify Newegg. An addendum to the specifications would be extremely useful.(Ironic that this is a recovery device designed to avoid the want to format and reinstall an OS, however it needs the consumer to purchase and set up another OS just to use it...)