Cables To Go 30504 33in USB 2.0 to IDE/Serial ATA Drive Adapter Cable

Pros: This basic but efficient system for testing, formatting and repairing hard drives works so well that I purchased a second one to use at work.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Sometime the old adage of “keep it simple” works the best and this external hard drive interface proves it with an clever & elegant design for the interface and exceptional results. If you need a way to test a hard drive without taking your rig apart then this will do the job both for SATA and IDE.

Pros: fits all types of the older IDE drives.

Cons: Power cable is too short

Pros: it works

Cons: They changes my paying instructions from Paypal to snail mail billing.

Pros: Works well with almost any hard drive and easy to work with.

Cons: Doesn't have USB 3.0 support, but that's okay.

Pros: Worked with windows xp ide hard drive

Cons: Did not recognize windows 7 sata drive formatted with 1-boot partiion and 1-data partition . Product wanted to reformat the drive .

Pros: Worked well while it worked, very handy tool for on-site tech work.

Cons: I bought this adapter set from Newegg.com 4/25/2012 and it has worked great for what I need it to do until now. Anything I hook it up to doesn't work anymore. I believe the power adapter is still functional since when I plug it in a hard drive or optical drive I can hear the pallets move and can eject the optical drive. However, once I connect either the IDE or SATA cables to it and plug it into a usb2.0 port, I don't see any new drives on any machine I have running. This makes me believe that the actual usb2.0 to IDE/SATA adapter is faulty or just has a short life span.

Pros: Works well, so far, as described.

Used it on a 1TB Toshiba (SATA) and an older 80GB (IDE) no problems.

Cons: As to Neweggs wonderfully fast shipping time reputation, I'd have to type.... "not so fast". But, then again, I only forked over the $6.99 for Purolator ground shipping.

Ordered Nov. 26. Received Dec. 4th.

Other Thoughts: I will update the pros and cons, as I use the product.

Pros: Inexpensive and it works, so far, on every drive I have tried (notebook drives, old 300G sata, everything).

Cons: Zero.

Pros: Ordered Monday received Tuesday. Installed with-in minutes Tuesday evening and recovered pictures and documents, that I thought were lost forever, from the hard drive on my old computer that the operating system had failed in. Very useful equipment to have.

Cons: None

Pros: Does what it says. I've retrieved data from an old laptop hard drive, and have had no issues. Incredibly simple to use. Definitely recommended if the need to recover data off an unused/spare/almost dead HDD ever arises.

Cons: None.