Sabrent USB-DSC5 Serial ATA or IDE 2.5-/3.5-Inch to USB 2.0 Cable Converter Adapter with Power Supply | 
| Brand: Sabrent
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  52 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5.6 x 1.9
MPN: USB-DSC5
Model: USB-DSC5
UPC: 857161001069
EAN: 0857161001069
ASIN: B000HJ99DI
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New Box Never Opened
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| Features:
| • | Connects USB 2.0 port to SATA-based or IDE storage-device port | | • | Connect ANY IDE or SATA device | | • | 7 inches long | | • | Support Inquiries - Support@kinamax.com |
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Product Description
USB 2.0 to IDE/SATA Cable Adapter The Hi-Speed USB 2.0 to Serial ATA (SATA) or IDE 2.5" and 3.5" Drive Adapter creates a bridge between one USB 1.1/2.0 port and one Serial ATA or SATA-based mass storage device port. The USB 2.0 to SATA and IDE 2.5"/3.5" Drive Adapter turns any SATA or IDE hard drive into a convenient external drive. Easily transfer files from computer or notebook, back up files, or store large file archives on hard drives. The Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface provides for easy installation with its Plug and Play design. The adapter supports all existing Serial ATA SATA and IDE drives 2.5" or 3.5"
Amazon.com Product Description
The Hi-Speed USB 2.0 to Serial ATA (SATA) or IDE 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drive adapter creates a bridge between one USB 1.1/2.0 port and one SATA-based mass storage device port. This adapter turns any SATA or IDE hard drive into a convenient external drive. Now you can easily transfer files from computer or notebook, back up files, or store large file archives on hard drives. The high-speed USB 2.0 interface has a plug-and-play design for easy installation. Plus, the power adapter uses 2A AC power supply to ensure enough power for the most power-consuming drives. This adapter is compatible with any SATA or IDE drives of any brand or any size. It requires a PC running Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Windows ME, or Windows XP; or a Mac running OSX. (A driver is necessary for Windows 98SE only.) What's in the Box
DE/SATA to USB 2.0 converter cable, 2A power supply and AC cord, driver's CD for Windows 98 only, and user's guide.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 47 more reviews...
 Definitely a "function over form" rescue device July 27, 2007
Christopher Wanko (Nutley, NJ USA)
24 out of 28 found this review helpful
I'm nonplussed at reviews mentioning how it's being used as a full-time connector for a SATA or IDE drive. It's clearly not aimed at that market at all. This is a kit designed for rescue/ recovery operations of someone else's HDD. Case in point: me.
I wrecked the partition table of my primary work HDD. All in-situ attempts failed, so I brought the laptop home, mounted the HDD to my SATA cable kit, and ran the excellent TestDisk tool from Christophe Grenier. My partition table recovered, I wrote it to disk and bright the HDD back into the laptop. I'm back up and writing this from the work laptop now (don't say anything).
I would never look at this complex jumble of wires and adapters and think "well, I'll just hook it up and let it go for a few years". No, sorry, incorrect application, despite the instruction manual showing you how to do it. This is a stripped-down kit designed to travel with your rescue ops laptop when making a house call, like to Grandma's PC. I find it's easier to run virus scanning, defrag, etc when the HDD is controlled by my known-good laptop.
I withheld a fifth star because it's a complex mess of wires. I don't know how one could make it look elegant and preserve its functionality, but whoever can do it merits the fifth star. Wholly recommended product for rescue operations.
-Fred
 Good in principle, but it didn't work for me November 19, 2006
Derek (New York, NY)
17 out of 20 found this review helpful
I tried using this adapter with two SATA hard drives and experienced errors on Windows XP SP2 (fully patched).
The first time I was copying about 120GB of data to a 160GB Samsung hard drive. About 20GB into the transfer Windows gave me a bunch of "delayed write" errors and said the written data may be corrupt.
The second time I was using Western Digital's diagnostic utility to zero-out a WD 500GB hard drive. This failed about 10% into the operation with strange write errors that I attribute to this adapater.
Fortunately I had another adapter, the "Sabrent Serial ATA (SATA) to USB 2.0 Cable Converter," which is a very similar adapter except that it only supports SATA and not IDE. I repeated both operations with the SATA-only adapater and everything worked. I had no trouble coping all my data to the 160GB Samsung drive and I successfully zeroed my 500GB Western Digital drive. Since the only difference in configuration between the failed attempts and the successful ones was the adapter I used, I can only conclude that this particular adapter caused the failures the first time.
So while I can't endorse this particular adapter, if all you need is SATA support, then I highly recommend the similar Sabrent Serial ATA (SATA) to USB 2.0 Cable Converter.
 Useful tip if it's not working January 21, 2008
Marion Bates (Canaan, NH USA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I couldn't get this device to work under Mac OS X or WindowsXP, gave up and called for a return authorization...but the support person told me this: For IDE drives, the drive's jumpers MUST be set to "MASTER" (not cable select), UNLESS the brand is Western Digital, in which case the jumpers must be set to "SINGLE" (i.e. remove all jumpers). Sure enough, it worked after that! Hope this helps someone else.
Where was this thing about 5 months ago? September 19, 2006
DISenchanted (NM USA -Land of DISenchantment)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
It just figures. Before this item became available,
I had bought several of the single function products like:
- USB to IDE (3.5")
- USB to IDE (2.5" notebook drive)
- USB to SATA
So far it works great.
No problems.
Faster interface than having to mount the hd into an external chassis.
I am glad I have it.
A real timesaver.
Looks like junk, but works GREAT December 5, 2007
Jeffrey Heaton (St. Louis, MO)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is not meant to be a long-term, set it on your desk, solution. Its a quick cable to transfer data off a hard drive or between hard drives for an upgrade. I've used this with SATA, IDE and laptop IDE. All worked great. I was able to plug the USB device into either my Windows or Mac computers. Very happy with this product!
Its great for cases where a laptop gets destroyed, yet the hard drive is fine. I know someone who spilled water on their laptop, and pretty much fried it. But the hard drive was fine. Using this device I copied the hard drive files to her new computers.
I've owned devices in the past that can do this, but the 3-in one interface setup is awesome.
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