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51 of 52 found the following review helpful:
 Some tips when using this devise. Dec 11, 2009
By Dahamo
The USB to SATA/IDE adapter is very useful when you need to transfer data on the fly. It is cheap, I paid less than $10 with S&H. AS other had mentioned, the adapter is for temporary use only. It is not made to be left connected permanently as an external device. The quality is good, but it could be better. Upon receiving the adapter I gave it a try and I was able to read from 4 different drives (80MB SATA, 250MB IDE, 10MB IDE, and 40MB IDE). Here are some tips when using the adapter, First)Connect the SATA/IDE adapter and power cable to the Hard drive. Second)Connect the power cord to the outlet. Let the drive spin 20-30 Seconds before connecting the USB cable to the PC. Third)Connect USB cable to PC. After connecting the USB cable be patient. Sometimes it took up to a minute for Windows Vista to let me know that a new USB devise was found. I had problem with the second Drive I tried because I think I did the connections too fast. I retried a second time and it worked fine.
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Good for personal use Feb 03, 2010
By S. M. Visampalli
"Murthy"
For personal use it is good
build quality is cheap but it does its work
the power cable pins are not strong may be they can be unsolder if you use too many times to plug in and out the power cable for serial hdd's and for sata hdd itz working cool.
If you are not worried about 10bucks you can blindly buy this one.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Easy Jan 25, 2010
By SF
This worked perfectly for me copying to both XP and OS 10.4.11 - first time, every time. Simple and easy.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
No instructions but excellent resource Dec 05, 2010
By Ailoa Sweet
I'll first talk about the bad parts of this: it is cheap and looks breakable, but I'm a moderately cautious person and I've been using it for over a year and it's fine. It also came with no instructions, which makes it difficult to use the first time (I've included instructions on how to use it below).
On the other hand, $10 to be able to read off of all my old SATA, RAID, and IDE drives is great, and I would definitely recommend this product.
Here are instructions for using the "USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE Cable Adapter For 2.5 3.5 HDD"
1. First determine what kind of drive you have. It's as simple as looking at the back of your drive and matching that up with a connector pattern on this device. Hint: SATA and IDE are similar looking, but SATA has a notch on the center top (or bottom, if you look at it that way) of the connector, whereas IDE does not.
----The steps after this MUST be done is this order otherwise the device will not work---
2. Plug the black power supply into your wall outlet and make sure the connection where that cable connects to the transformer (the black box) is snug.
3. If you have a RAID drive, use the included red, yellow, and black cable to connect the power supply to your drive, otherwise just plug the black power supply cable (the one attached permanently to the black box) into your drive.
4. Wait at least a few seconds, then:
a. if you have a RAID drive, plug the red cable into the top of the connector that is on the silver cable (the one in the upper right of the product picture), then plug that red cable into your RAID drive.
b. if you have a SATA or IDE drive, plus the appropriate connector (from step 1) on the silver cable into your SATA/IDE drive.
5. Connect the USB on the silver cable into your computer, and voila! You're computer will now install the drive.
The important thing to remember is that this thing doesn't really have it's own drivers: it's a generic "USB Mass Storage Device" and then it installs the driver from your drive on top of that, so if you don't think you have the correct driver don't blame this product: you'll need to go to the website of the drive manufacturer and get their drivers.
Also, if you plug the silver cable into your Windows XP/Vista computer before pluging it into the drive then your computer will install a generic USB mass storage device but not the correct drivers, and it will not work. In this case, unplug everything and follow the above steps in order. Windows 7 appears to not have this problem, but you might as well follow those steps anyway.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 why am I complaining for $9? Aug 22, 2010
By Robert C. Gwin
"rob"
Just FYI.. the molex adapter didn't fit to the AC converter too well -- I had to mangle the crap out of it and rip some pieces out with needlenose pliers to make it connect (I'm talking about parts of the product itself, not the connection to my drive). Just your basic cheap-ass-ness. Once I got that in place it worked perfectly
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