Vantec CB-ISATAU2 SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter Supports 2.5-Inch, 3.5-Inch, 5.25-Inch Hard Disk Drives (Black)

I bought this to use on my 3.5" drive, but I wasnt able to use it. One - the power output was too high for my 2TB WD Caviar Green drive and so smoke started appearing from the HDD while using it. I dont know if I damaged by HDD yet, but the lack of power control is a serious issue with this. MOdern HDD's are quite efficient, so utility of this is questionable without power control.The cables are also delicate to touch and need to be handled very carefully.Overall, not an easy experience and not what was expected.

With all this stay at home down time it was finally time to go through every single one of my old hard drives before they were finally cleared out and sent for recycling. This included drives of every sort and type dating back twenty years ago, on both desktop and laptop. Pretty excited to see what what turn up, but ultimately was disappointed by the results. First off, great product in a sense of idea. Before these were out, and part of the reason they sat for so long, you had to take each one and plug it into a main computer and work from there. This treats it more or less like a plug and play usb, with the exception of being careful to turn on certain things in order. At the end of the day, out of seven drives I tried only four worked. I tried again on a friend's unit and he was able to read six of them so one was presumumbly done for. Weird thing though, I gave it another round and this time five units worked with a earlier working unit only being able to intermittently read. So all in all, very inconsistent which is too bad because it's a great tool when it worked.

I purchased this adapter so that I could connect a failing hard drive to my older computer in order to transfer all the data off. During the transfer, even though I had touched nothing, the drive would suddenly disappear, like it had been disconnected from my computer. I would then disconnect everything and reconnect it, assuming that some part was loose. Sometimes, even after all of that, the drive would still not show up as being connected for a few minutes. And after the transfer resumed, the drive would inevitably randomly disappear again. A few years ago, my dad purchased the same product and it worked well for him. So, I asked to borrow his older Vantec SATA to USB 2.0 adapter. I was shocked at how flimsy the new adapter felt compared to the older adapter. I hooked up the failing hard drive to my older computer with the older adapter and it worked just fine; the drive never randomly disappeared from my computer when it was connected with the older adapter.

If you have old hard drives lying around or just upgraded to a new computer and want to gain access to your old files and photos, this is the device you need. It accomodates 3 kinds of data and power connectors. Hooking up the drive is simple and connecting to your laptop or desktop computer is USB. It's very straightforward and works exacly as promised. All the parts you need are inside the box even though the photos on the box don't show everything.

The first one arrived and would not work.Replacement one arrived, it worked fine on the first hard drive, but then would not work on the other three hard drives.When I tried it again on the first hard drive it worked for a bit than stopped workingI tried them one a laptop running windows 7, a different one running 8.1 and one using windows 10

My computer crashed. One day, it just decided that it no longer had a hard drive. So, I figured... I could just take out the hard drive and use this. I'm pretty impressed because I had NO IDEA what I was doing and this gizmo let me access my files!Well, most of them. ;)