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

Average customer rating: 3.5

Function over Form
Excellent for data transfer
Don't bother
Good in principle, but it didn't work for me
Where was this thing about 5 months ago?

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

Manufacturer: Sabrent
Product Group: CE
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ASIN: B000HJ99DI

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Cables & Interconnects

Product Description

USB 2.0 to IDE/SATA Cable Adapter The Hi-Speed USB 2.0 to Serial ATA (SATA) or IDE 2.5" and 3.5" Drive Adapter creates a bridge between one USB 1.1/2.0 port and one Serial ATA or SATA-based mass storage device port. The USB 2.0 to SATA and IDE 2.5"/3.5" Drive Adapter turns any SATA or IDE hard 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 2.0 interface provides for easy installation with its Plug and Play design. The adapter supports all existing Serial ATA SATA and IDE drives 2.5" or 3.5"

Customer Reviews:

Function over Form.......2007-04-11

I have many drives from various old computers lying around [ide and sata] that I need to access from time to time. This cable isn't pretty but its extremely useful. Thus far I haven't had any trouble accessing data on either ide or sata drives. I gave it 4 out of 5 stars only because I've been using it for such a short period of time.

Excellent for data transfer.......2007-01-04

I've used this device on dozens of drives already including, SATA, PATA 3.5" and laptop drives and in all cases, it works great. This is my most useful tool in my toolbox for fixing PCs. A "Must Have" if you work on computers frequently!! Great for transferring lots of data!

Don't bother.......2006-12-27

I got this product because I purchased 2 new SATA hard drives and wanted to connect it to my computer via the USB because my computer uses IDE. There are a total of 3 cords. One plugs into the hard drive and outlet to give the hard drive power. The other 2 cords are what connects the hard drive to the computer. One cord goes from the USB of the computer to the end of the cord...there is a little "switch" which is where you can either connect the "switch" directly to an IDE drive, or you can use the 3rd cord, the SATA cord...plug one end into the SATA part of the "switch" and the other end into the hard drive.
The IDE part of the "switch" worked okay. The only problem was you could hear the hard drive turn faster then slower, faster then slower. It was not consistent and I would not rely on it to move important files. I did hook up the IDE hard drive to the power supply from the actual computer (I unplugged a CD-ROM and used that power) and used the USB part of this product. That worked. So it appeared that there was not enough power coming from the power adapter included. This does me no good, because for portability's sake, I don't want to have to open up the computer to get the computer power cord.
When I plugged in the SATA part of it, I had problems. The power cord was fine (other than the aforementioned problem) When I plugged in the cord to the USB, my computer recognized it as a USB interface. Even if I plugged in the SATA cord into the "switch", it still recognized the device as being there. However, as soon as I plugged in the SATA cord into the hard drive, the device would disappear from my computer. I tried multiple SATA cords, other power supplies and nothing seemed to work. I have seen similar products work, and I may have gotten a bad one, but I just opted to get a SATA connection to plug into my mother board and use the power cords from inside the computer.

Good in principle, but it didn't work for me.......2006-11-20

I tried using this adapter with two SATA hard drives and experienced errors on Windows XP SP2 (fully patched).

The first time I was copying about 120GB of data to a 160GB Samsung hard drive. About 20GB into the transfer Windows gave me a bunch of "delayed write" errors and said the written data may be corrupt.

The second time I was using Western Digital's diagnostic utility to zero-out a WD 500GB hard drive. This failed about 10% into the operation with strange write errors that I attribute to this adapater.

Fortunately I had another adapter, the "Sabrent Serial ATA (SATA) to USB 2.0 Cable Converter," which is a very similar adapter except that it only supports SATA and not IDE. I repeated both operations with the SATA-only adapater and everything worked. I had no trouble coping all my data to the 160GB Samsung drive and I successfully zeroed my 500GB Western Digital drive. Since the only difference in configuration between the failed attempts and the successful ones was the adapter I used, I can only conclude that this particular adapter caused the failures the first time.

So while I can't endorse this particular adapter, if all you need is SATA support, then I highly recommend the similar Sabrent Serial ATA (SATA) to USB 2.0 Cable Converter.

Where was this thing about 5 months ago?.......2006-09-19

It just figures. Before this item became available,
I had bought several of the single function products like:
- USB to IDE (3.5")
- USB to IDE (2.5" notebook drive)
- USB to SATA

So far it works great.

No problems.

Faster interface than having to mount the hd into an external chassis.

I am glad I have it.

A real timesaver.

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