USB IDE or SATA Adapter, FIDECO USB 3.0 Hard Drive Adapter Universal for 2.5/3.5 inch SATA HDD/SSD & IDE HDD, Included 12V 2A Power Adapter & USB 3.0 Cable

When your home server dies and you don't worry about it for months because you KNOW you have a backup, but then find that what isn't actually backed up is 15yrs of photos of your kids growing up, then you risk your wife killing you slowly and very painfully.Well, yes that happened to me!I tried another SATA USB adapter, but there was no life in the drive then I arranged for a data recovery company to collect and evaluate the situation for me. Faced the chance of it costing £200 to £400 to recover the files (and willing to pay), I bought this. The additional power had my disk spinning up and I was able to mount it on my Linux laptop (iMac and Win10 wouldn't) and then copy all of the lost photos.I have three copies now and I'm looking at a new NAS and cloud storage options. My life is safe... for now.This thing was so easy to set up and use. A true godsend.

I got this adapter because I still have a few legacy drives in my systems and one of them recently failed and needed upgrading to a SATA drive.The adapter was a lot smaller than I was expecting and came with a USB 3.0 Type A to USB 3.0 Type B USB cable which was confusing as most PCs don’t have USB Type B interfaces. It wasn’t a huge problem since at back of the adapter was a USB Type A port and so I used my own Type A -> Type C cable to connect it to my PC. It also came with a rather beefy 12v 3A power supply.The adapter had 3 connections for connecting to hard drives: 3.5” IDE, 2.5” IDE & a SATA (2.5” & 3.5” use the socket) interface. I tried both IDE and SATA using my Type C cable and my PC had no problems detecting both the drives with good speeds (I haven’t test with an SSD).I was pleased to see that it had an on/off switch at the back of the adapter which came in handy to protect my drives from damage (so they could be spun down). I can recommend this adapter to others, especially since it comes with a really nice power supply with a universal changeable electrical plug.Thanks for taking the time to read my review.

I seem to know a lot of people who end up having their computers die on them, and more often then not they have no idea how to recover their lost data. As the nice and helpful friend I like to be, I'm always having to ask them to buy an adapter so they can get their data off.Lo and behold, one of my colleagues laptop has died so I decided to get this adapter. I went with this one because it can handle IDE and SATA both 2.5" and 3.5" which means that if I have to help anyone again it should be all covered.I like that the adapter has everything you might need, and is packaged nice and neatly for storage. The adapter fit nicely into the 2.5" SATA drive I liberated from by colleagues laptop and I was able to use the device to boot from USB so she could then take all the data she wanted.Great little bit of kit!

This device works just fine. I've been using it to get some data off a lot of old IDE hard drives.It is NOT suitable for regular use with an external drive, as the connectors are rigid, and you do have to be careful to lay the drive and the connector down flat on a surface, otherwise there would be a strong risk of damaging something. Do do it on your lap or on a sofa.But that's not what it is for. It is for data recovery, and it works just fine.The one confusing thing is that there is what can only be a push-button switch on the top of the unit, which feels like a switch, looks like a switch, and goes 'click' when you press it, ...but it doesn't do anything, and is not mentioned in the manual. It doesn't matter; it's just strange.I was using this plugged into a laptop running Linux Mint, and it just worked without having to do anything special or clever. The hard drive contents just showed up as per any other drive. I had some doubts to begin with but that was because the first two hard drives I tried on it were dead. To be fair, they had come out of computers that would not boot up. Every other hard drive I tried it with worked just fine. I didn't have any SATA drives to try it with, so I have not tested that connection. I only tried it with IDE (PATA) drives.Oh, one little quibble: the power cable for 3.5 inch IDE drives is a bit short. It was fine for all the drives I had to work with, but if a drive had the power socket on the other side of the data socket to normal, then it would not reach, and you'd need an extension cable, either for the power or for the data. It may of course be that IDE drives always have the power socket on the same side of course, and I can't say I've ever seen one the other way around, but I did have a 3.5 inch drive caddy with a 2.5 inch drive in it that had the power socket on the other side, so to read that drive I had to remove it from the caddy first and plug it in as a normal 2.5 inch drive.

I couldn't be happier with this device. Although tiny, it works brilliantly - at least with the 6TB SATA drive I've tested it with so far. All my pre-purchase concerns about whether I'd need an additional (separate) power supply for a SATA drive; indeed, whether it would read existing files on the drive at all or I would have to reformat it under Windows 10 in order to use it with the device - all proved unfounded. I plugged the unit into the old HDD, pluged in the power supply and the USB cable, turned it on... and 10 seconds later the content of the drive was fully accessible in an Explorer window on my laptop's Win 10 desktop. What could be simpler?Naturally the device is made in China, and my only gripe is with the manual - which is abysmal. They even have the temerity to print this on the back: 'This user manual has been subjected to thorough reviews and verifications to ensure accuracy of its content...'. Yet one paragraph within reads 'In general, the hard disk can be used so do not need to change, if it can not identify the hard disk or correct multiple hard drives, you should set the hard disk Master or slave. There is no standard, according to the front of the label on the hard drive to set. Such as Seagate hard'. The rest isn't much better.Fortunately, for me at least, the manual is not required. A highly recommended product for anyone with a dead PC or a drive they want to access data on.