Sabrent USB 2.0 to IDE Cable for 2.5-Inch / 3.5-Inch / 5.25-Inch Drive with Power Adapter

Average customer rating: 3.5

Great product for using old internal drive as external usb drive
shipped as promised, performed as advertised
Handy tool
Great Device
Absolute Junk

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Sabrent USB 2.0 to IDE Cable for 2.5-Inch / 3.5-Inch / 5.25-Inch Drive with Power Adapter

Manufacturer: Sabrent
Product Group: CE
Binding:
ASIN: B000A0O1D2

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Product Description

USB 2.0 To IDE Cable For 2.5"/3.5"/5.25" Drive With Power Adapter The USB 2.0 to IDE Drive Adapter implements a bridge between one USB port and one ATA or ATAPI based mass storage device port. The USB 2.0 to IDE Drive Adapter turns any IDE drive into a convenient external drive. Easily transfer files from computer or notebook, back up files, or store large file archives on hard drives. The Hi-Speed USB interface provides for easy installation with its Plug and Play design. The adapter supports all existing IDE/ATAPI devices such as Iomega Zip, CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM and IDE hard drives.

Customer Reviews:

Great product for using old internal drive as external usb drive.......2007-03-09

The Sabrent USB2.0 to IDE Cable and power supply work wonderfully.
I am able to use an old drive from my smoked desktop as a plug-in USB drive
to my laptop and recovered all my data. Also, now I can use another old drive
I had to backup music and photos. It is well worth the money, I think.

shipped as promised, performed as advertised.......2007-02-07

What more can you ask for. Arrived as promised, performed as advertised. A definite must for any IT guy to get data from any old drive

Handy tool.......2007-01-22

Once I gave up trying to follow the broken English bogus instructions, this worked great!! I was able to recover data from two hard drives and burn cds. One drive I left installed in the desktop PC case while I ran a virus scan on it from the 'good' laptop.

MY instructions are:
put hard drive jumper to master
power up the harddrive by plugging in the power supply.
Once it is spinning, plug in the IDE connector end, then the USB end.

That goes against all my geeking instincts but it was the only way my laptop would recognize the hard drive. The hard drives wouldn't even spin up if I connected the IDE connector first and power second.

fyi - disk space isn't reported properly on the hard drive

Great Device.......2007-01-10

This cable worked great right out of the box, giving one the ability to connect a loose hard drive to your computer via the USB 2.0 port. All functionality is there, drag and drop, etc. Great way to recover data if something goes wrong with the boot process, or a missing operating system error. Just be careful when you place the cable onto the connector pins of the hard drive. Since the cable is both a 3.5" and 2.5", it just requires some care to get it on correctly.

Absolute Junk.......2007-01-09

It is ashame a reputable comany has not picked this idea up and made a quality, dependable product out of it. It is a priceless idea for the repairmen/technicians. The unit I received did not work on any drive... it was just "sweat shop" made junk, never tested or QA'd. It was even some generic product... there was no name anywhere on the item or the box.

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