USB-2110 USB 2.0 to IDE and SATA Adapter Cable with Power

This is an awesome product, Its made with cheap plastic but when it comes down to it, it works and it works well. I was able to used a hard drive recovery software on a hard drive I was working on and then I pluged it into this dock. I was able to recover files that my customer needed and wanted. Not only that but then I was able to image the drive (which was damaged) to a new drive and then reinstalled windows 7.This little thing is surely awesome for the money you can't beat it. I specifically will do data transfer only for dead system that my customers want and the first data transfer it paid off. So if your looking for something easy and quick this is the way to go.With the connection I noticed you have to have everything plugged in and running and then plug the USB into the PC, it takes a little while for the configutation to go through but it works. Also if you have multiple partitions on that drive, just restart the system it's plugged into and it should pick it up without an issue. Just something I came across the a 3 partition hard drive.

I recently broke down and decided to rip all my cd's to the computer. The computer in question is set high on a shelf in the living room and so getting up on a stool 300+ times didnt seem like a happy option nor did dragging the comp off the shelf so I got this item. Went down stairs to the computer graveyard closet and scrounged a dvd rw and came back up pluged it in and windows found it right away and off I went with the help of a few usb extensions. Out of the 300+ cd's I ripped it only had issues a few times where it somehow dissapeared from the drives and I had to restart the computer for it to find it again. Other than that it worked great. After it served its purpose with the dvd drive I went back down to the graveyard and tore appart one of the old laptops I had down there and ripped out the harddrive, plugged it into this device on the computer I have in the office and saw what was on that harddrive, then reformatted it and now use it as a back up drive and it works great. This is a neat little toy I may get another one just to have it, never no when you may need a spare.

I guess I'll have to find another USB 2.0 to IDE and Sata since this product failed on me. I like to wait a few weeks or month[s] before writing a review for products and now my time has come to write this review. I've used this product for nearly 2 months and when I attempted to use it earlier it made a "popping" noise. The green light doesn't light up and now it's pretty much useless, well not entirely useless. I can still attach HDD's to my PC if I can find away to power the HDD's. I'm not sure why it made a popping noise. I plugged it into the surge protector as usual with no HDD attached [thank goodness >_>] and the power brick gave up on me. While it worked it performed pretty good. It does connect SATA and IDE HDD's with no problems via USB. Has minor flaws and is pretty well designed and simple. Unfornately my $20+ dollars has gone to waste. This is a cheap product so I wasn't surprised.In order to get this device to perform correctly I suggest plugging it in the wall and then attaching your HDD. After that attach the IDE or the SATA connectors and connect the USB to the computer. Any other way your PC might randomly shut down on you. Hope I was able to help some of you with the precedure.So if you are trying to decide if you should buy this product or not I will tell you like this from my personal experience. If you want to use it for short-term use go ahead and take a risk by buying this product. If you are looking for long-term use I suggest spending a little more for another product.Pros:-It connects IDE or SATA HDDs via USB to PC's when following the correct procedures.Cons:-It stopped working on me after about 2 months of use-NO instruction manual came with my product.

I was able to use this perfectly with some old IDE drives.But I lost all my wife's iTunes music and personal data connecting this contraption to her old 250GB SATA HD after installing Windows 7 on a newer HD. It basically fried the board so it was no longer responsive (platter doesn't spin) - even when installing it back into the laptop it used to live in. I bet the data is still there, but I'd have to pay a recovery service big money to get the data off the platter. So because I paid for the cheaper version of this, I now have an unhappy wife.Buying this device falls into that category of "penny wise and pound foolish." Go higher end and don't risk the damage of SATA equipment because of a low-end SATA power connection. I no longer trust this thing - it's going in the trash.

12 of 14 previously unusable drives now have their data recovered because of this simple little cable. Recognized instantly, loaded as external rather than a Master/Slave combo, compact shielded wiring, private power source so you don't have to turn off the computer to connect it.Granted it isn't the fastest transfer rates, but being able to pull the data off them when I had almost recycled the hard drives and taken my loss is a great relief. Lots of old pictures and music I've gotten back.This cable will have a home in my tech chest for the longest future.Keep in mind the information given in another review, if connecting to a laptop it has a tendency to not function until the laptop is connected directly to AC power, so plug your laptop in and all should be good with your world.