Unitek SATA/IDE to USB 3.0 Adapter, IDE Hard Drive Adapter Kit Recovery Converter for Universal 2.5"/3.5" Inch IDE and SATA External HDD/SSD, Support 10TB

This great little device was incredibly simple to use - literally plug-n-play. I had an HP laptop fail to power up after 8 years [imagine-an antique] and luckily I had always backed up on a Seagate external drive...that was also many years old. I fell into the bad habit of using the Seagate to access old stuff from the new Acer laptop....until the Seagate crashed. Unrecoverable. I still had the old HP and had the idea that the hard drive could still be good since the failure was a power issue. SO...I invested in this adapter and plugged in the old hard drive that I removed from the HP carcass. BNGO - everything was still there: all the documents, photos and other files that I was certain were lost forever. Now that old drive is backed up on a higher end SanDisk drive and a cloud backup is pending.This device comes with it's own power supply and brief instructions - which are all you need. Not everyone will have the same good fortune that I did, but for the price this adapter / reader was an incredible value.

Works well for retrieving files from an old hard drive that wouldn’t boot to windows. Easy plug and play and drag over files from the user folder. Price is also very reasonable and half the cost of most other enclosures.

This is the product I had been searching for, for a while. I had a huge stack of old firewire hard drives from 20yrs ago that have been sitting around. I'd been searching for cables to convert the hard drive to, when a friend said just get a bay and pull out the hard drive from the case, and you can convert it to USB from the hard drive bay. I went on YouTube to try and find the easiest way to convert my old firewire drives, and found this product in the video.I successfully removed the drives from all the enclosures and this product worked flawlessly. It's incredibly easy to use, the design is great, and I was able to get the USB-C version to connect it to my Macbook Pro. I've now backed up all data and couldn't recommend this product enough to those in similar situations.

Works well so far. Cord is very stiff is only issue.

I didn't have great expectations for this. I had several old IDE hard drives from my recently passed father in law to go through. This worked FANTASTICALLY. Quick to switch drives and works great with IDE and SATA drives. I am very happy!

I had some external hard drives that went bad and so I disassemble them and hooked them up to this connector and it was able to read all the data. I didnt want to spend much as I wont use it often, but for the price it worked perfect for my situation. Would recommend it to others if they needed one.

Worked fine. Received promptly.

I'm very impressed with this device and will admit That I'm no computer gooru.But have worked on computers as a hobby since the 1980's. My s0n sent me an old laptop Windows XP the power on button broke. All he needed was the data from the hard drive. The Computer is trashed so IPulled the hard drive then gently removed the pin adapter from the end of it plugged into this device plugged the power supply in. Plugged the device into my USB port.Booted my computer Windows 10.Now comes the important part!I turned the power on button and the light started blinking and the files came up in File manager it works and it works perfectly!Retired President and CEOJohnson Tool and EDM Inc.