VantecSATA/IDE TO USB 3.0 Adapter (CB-ISA225-U3)

I am very happy with this product. I usually read all of the reviews (especially negative ones) before purchasing a product. This one had some not great reviews, but it was something I went against my gut and purchased anyways. I am really glad I did! I had a computer that was completely dead and I thought that I would never get anything off of my hard drive again. This could not have been easier to use. I followed a YouTube video to help with the hook up, but basically it took me 5 minutes to hook up to my dead hard drive and then about 1.5 hours of waiting for the files to transfer. It worked perfectly the first time. I did not have any complaints about the physical product or materials. I ended up getting all of my files off of the hard drive from my dead computer no problem in two hours. I would definitely recommend this product. I will keep this product tucked away in case I need it again, but I hope I don't! It was a great alternative than taking this to a store to fix the computer or recover the files. I'm sure that would have been over $100. This way, I spent around $20, saved a bunch of money, and never had to leave my house! Great product!

I gave my old USB 2.0 disk adapter to a good friend who needed one. I’d had it for many years and it always worked great. So I went looking for an updated product to fill my needs. I found the Vantec SATA/IDE TO USB 3.0 Adapter (CB-ISA225-U3) and got one here through Amazon.It arrived as expected and I’ve already put it to work. First let me inform you what is in the box. This wasn’t at all clear to me from the product page. First, there is the USB adapter itself and a short, about 4”, SATA cable. Then it has the power supply consisting of a wall wart (120v) and the components required to connect to either SATA or 4 pin modular for IDE.When hooked up to a disk drive, my experience was that Windows 10 found and mounted the partitions on the drive quickly. No additional software or drivers were needed. Transfers to and from the drive was as quick as if the drive were internal. The adapter has two status lights that show activity to and from the device. The power supply setup has an on/off switch but does not have a power status light. That is the only drawback I found with this adapter.Overall, I am very pleased with the device and its packing/shipment by Amazon.

I used this to read data from at least five (5) ancient IDE drives and one (1) SATA drive. It worked for all except one--a 4.3GB 34300 WD Caviar HD from 1998--I tried the jumpers in all sorts of settings--no dice. I connected this to an old computer with IDE cables and it turned out that the drive was dead.Some tips:(1) As for the other IDE drives, some had to be set to slave, not master. I figured this out by finding some documentation on the Vantec website that said the product might not work unless the drive is set to slave--in spite of the written directions that came in the box that insist on master.(2) The computer recognizes the drive right away, but can't always read any data from it--that's how you know the drive "works", but the jumper settings might interfere with the computers ability to read the data from it--so try different jumper settings.(3) If you use Windows, have the Disk Management window open. This window shows right away whether or not you'll be able to read data from the drive--or even see the drive. If you see Disk 1 (or perhaps some other number), but nothing else, then try changing the jumper settings.(4) Sometimes following the instructions work, sometimes it doesn't. Some drives I could read with my Win7 PC, some only with Win10.(5) Sometimes you have to plug things in a certain order according to the instructions, sometimes you have to change it up. It's crazy. It's amazing a device like this works at all.(6) Even if you manage to connect your hard drive, Windows Explorer would crash trying to read some folders. So download another Explorer-type program, and get your files off your hard drive.Jumpers settings and IDE drives with the PitA ribbons--good riddance.

I received this item ahead of advised delivery time-whic quite an excellent service delivery from Amazon. The device worked as advertised and has given me flexibility around assessing my SATA drives(2.5 and 3.5 inch respectively). A good work from the makers.

This little device assembly does exactly what is advertised. On top of recovering data from multiple old hard drives, I can plug in my older internal DVD/CD burner to my new laptop and access all of my old optical disks. Being able to play older CD or DVD games again is cool. There are now businesses who charge a fortune to recover all of your older data and music. This device makes it just too simple.

This device seemed appealing due to its versatility, but I've barely been able to use it for more than basic file transfers. This interface uses the Innostor Technology Corporation IS611 SATA/PATA Bridge Controller (1f75:0611). The particular device I received has serious issues that prevent it from being usable, but it's not clear whether or not this is a driver issue or hardware issue.I need to be able to use disk imaging, partitioning, and SMART tools on external drives from Linux, but any such operation—even mounting the device to browse files in a file manager—will cause the device to hang for potentially minutes before continuing (if it decides to respond at all). This doesn't happen in Windows, but I had several files get stuck as unreadable and undeletable even just copying/deleting files on a known good SSD.It does technically work for copying files, and occasionally for more advanced uses if I am persistent, but it's not an experience I recommend unless you have PATA drives laying around that need backing up and there are no better options.