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Summary: This worked, but is very awkward and cumbersome
Comment: This works, but is a hassle to set up and more than a little cumbersome. I think I'd try and find something a little easier to use the next time.
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Summary: pay attention to hard drive switch
Comment: I only tried it with my 120G Seagate IDE drive, and it made the drive fail and my data were lost. The reason could be that the drive was not on master setting on the first try. I haven't try with other drives, so not sure if it really works or not. Anyway it is a bad experience for me. Maybe I should buy other ones with higher price.
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Summary: Worked as expected
Comment: Was a life saver when the old computer was damaged in a house fire. Removed the hard drive and plugged it into the port and it was on the desktop ready to copy onto the new computer. Simple easy to use device.
Enjoy
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Summary: It Just Works
Comment: I bought this on an occasion when I needed to clone an old laptop drive to a new one, which was in the laptop. It worked *perfectly*. Just plug the 2.5in laptop drive into the mini-IDE connector and then plug the USB cable into any free USB port. Since it's a generic USB mass storage device, it should work under any operating system. ( For the record I use Linux )
Recently, I came upon a situation wherein I required the adapter again. This time I needed to access the contents of a loose 3.5in hard drive. Again, all the tools are supplied : just plug the 3.5 IDE female connector on the adapter into the drive's IDE interface, plug the 4-pin 12-volt connector from the power supply into the drives power receptacle, plug the AC connector into the power supply, plug the other end into a socket, and then plug the USB connector into any free USB port. It works *perfectly*.
I would give this device 6 stars if I could. Not only do you get an adapter that accepts SATA, IDE, mini-IDE, ATAPI devices and provides a USB interface, but you get a 12-volt switching auto-sensing PSU with a 4-pin Molex connector output, 1 SATA data cable, 1 4-pin Molex to SATA power adapter, and a 4-pin Molex to 2-pin keyed power adapter which plugs into the side of the main adapter body that I assume is there to provide auxiliary power to a bus-powered device if it needs it.
*Highly recommended!*
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Summary: Works like you'd expect
Comment: I've had no problems with a few different 2.5" and 3.5" drives. Mac OS X 10.4
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