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 This one works great! December 23, 2008
Ivan A. Gamboa Fuentes
I needed to make a backup from a laptop ibm hard drive, an IDE desktop hardrive and a sata desktop hard drive.
All three worked as it should.
word of caution: when conecting the desktop drives to the reader, first conect the drive (sata or ide) to reader and to the provided power supply, after the drive is powered on, then you can conect to the USB port, that way you will not have problems to recognize the drive.
Worked As Advertised December 12, 2008
PDK (BOTHELL, WA USA)
I recently had a WinXP machine die, and needed to transfer the hard drives to my new Vista computer. I also had a couple of hard drives left over from a Win98 machine from another computer that died 5 years ago. I was able to transfer all four drives with no problems whatsoever. I'd seen in another review, that someone was having problems with large files. I had a couple files as big as 20GB, and had no problems. Best $28 I've spent in a while (the place where I bought my computer wanted to charge $85 per drive to do the transfer).
 JUNK October 13, 2008
Classic Trek Fan (Hagerstown, MD United States)
I got one of these from Cyberguys as well as a 1TB SATA drive. Long story short - I actually sent the SATA drive back because it showed up as defective. Then I tried a 500GB IDE. Copied files to it which later all became corrupt. I now think the SATA may have been good but this adapter is "corrupt".
 Easy hard drive access February 27, 2008
H. Lam (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a very useful device for anyone with a bit of experience tinkering under the hood of a computer. The package includes:
- the actual adapter itself, which provides an USB connection to 3 different types of hard drive connectors -- 5.25" / 3.5" IDE, 2.5" IDE, and SATA.
- an IDE (4-pin MOLEX) power adapter.
- one SATA-to-SATA data cable.
- one IDE (4-pin MOLEX) power to SATA power adapter.
- a mini-CD containing a manual and drivers. It is not necessary to install drivers in Windows ME / 2000/ XP and above systems.
Both the SATA/IDE-to-USB and power adapter cables are reasonably lengthy; 3' for the former, maybe 5.5' for the latter.
Vantec's SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter provides an easy way to access a hard drive without needing to install it into a computer. It also works great for extracting data from old computers without having to figure out how to turn them on -- all you have to do is take out the hard drive.
 Maybe OK for casual use, not for large files August 3, 2007
Christian deLarios (Dallas, TX USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this product to copy drive images from older systems to some new 500GB internal drives that I purchased for this purpose. I had some serious problems with copying the images to the drives (through the dongle), with it typically bombing out around 40MB on USB 1.1 systems and around 500MB on USB 2.0 systems. After messing around with it for a few hours (and discovering that smaller files worked just fine), I began to get the feeling that it was a faulty product. After trying another Vantec with the same results, I returned it and bought the very similar product from Bytecc. While I agree with another reviewer that the connectors are better on the Vantec, the Bytecc product actually worked with my multi-GB files, which is kinda the point. Score: Bytecc - 1; Vantec - 0...
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