Startech Usb2sataide Usb 2.0 To Sata Ide Adapter

Works great good price

Excellent quality. These are made really well and this one has held up better than any i have had before

I found it to be just what i was looking for.

Works great no problem what so ever. Read the directions and you will be ok.

Hooks up to both ide & sata drives without a problem.

It worked as described. I love having it in my pc troubleshooting arsenal.

My mom's laptop crashed and burned so she had to get a new one. She had several pictures and files on her old computer that she wanted to save, but the laptop wouldn't even boot up. I took her laptop to several local computer store chains and was told it would be about 100.00 to get the files off of her old laptop. She wasn't really sure exactly what files were on there or what she needed to keep so we didn't know if it was worth that to find out if there were things she needed or not. I noticed the stores were using this product to connect the hard drive, so i went home and found it to buy. Her laptop was old, so most of the other adapters didn't have the right pin configuration to fit her hard drive. This one worked great. I was able to connect the hard drive from her laptop. This adapter provided the power needed to the hard drive, and i was able to go through her files to find any documents she might need or want to keep. Plus, it was really affordable!

Perfect

This is sad. I researched 4 highly rated usb to ide/sata adapters, and finally decided on this startech usb 2.0 to sata ide adapter (usb2sataide). Unfortunately, this is not a good product.I used this product on a windows xp system with an old ide hard drive. I connected the ac adapter to the drive (and waited 20 seconds for it to fully spin up like a startech customer service rep said in another review), and then i connected the usb cable to the computer. Each partition on the hard drive mounted as a separate drive in windows (i saw the autoplay popup for each drive). It seemed to be working.However, as i clicked around the directories on the hard drive in windows explorer, sometimes explorer would freeze for 5-15 seconds before it finally listed the contents of a directory. This happened several times as i was clicking around all the directories on the hard drive. Very annoying. Then i decided to do hard drive surface scan, and during the scan, windows unmounted the hard drive and re-mounted it. I could see the drive letters disappear in explorer, and then they re-appeared and the autoplay popups appeared again. Not good!I disconnected all the cables and reconnected them, and i encountered the same problems as before - occasional freezing in windows explorer and then the drives unmounting and re-mounting. You don't want the drive to be unmounting during a file transfer - that will cause data corruption.I thought maybe it was a problem with that particular hard drive, so i got another one of my old ide drives and connected that one. Same problem - occasional freezing in explorer and eventually the drive unmounted and remounted itself. I thought the startech usb adapter was defective at that point, so i had outletpc send me a replacement.I connected my old ide hard drive to the replacement adapter, and same thing - freezes in explorer and eventually the drive unmounted and remounted itself. This adapter is a poor product. I will have to try out one of the other brands that i researched - either sabrent or cable unlimited.

I work in it, and need flexibility. All the wires and connections make this a device that works great when i need it. If i were looking for something to stay permanently on my desk, i would look for something cleaner--maybe a dock or cradle instead. I've used this many times, on many systems running both windows and linux, and this has never failed me. When you just need to access a sata or old ide hard drive, this will definitely get you there.