USB 3.0 to IDE and SATA Converter External Hard Drive Adapter Kit for Universal 2.5/3.5 HDD/SSD Hard Drive Disk, One Touch Backup Function, Included 12V/2A Power Adapter

I had 3 IDE hard drives and 3 SATA drives from old computers that had a lot of pictures and music on them. This converter was very simple to use, just plug it into the drive, attach the USB plug and turn it on. It is self powered with a jack and transformer that just plugs into the wall. I did not use any APPS, just opened up WINDOWS EXPORER and started moving files onto my main computer. This is really a nice tool!!!

The device works great alone. I didn't like the software that was provided. I couldn't uninstall it, I couldn't restore my laptop. The Chinese software was infused to the laptop... I go to its main folder, install.exe file was gone, the .dll's were gone... the .exe programme file was there, but it not work, the uninstall file was there, but a programme service was still active. It only had 4 components after you extracted the zip file. I couldn't bring up the programme to use it. It gave me a message that it was already running. So I stopped the service in administrative area of the laptop. I denied all ✔️'s on users, system, administration and it's access, deleted its access directly- Gotta be careful there...you delete the right one. Then I stopped the service, with the control panel open for ai-otb uninstall programme. I un-installed it and all components. Success! I ran a registry programme to clean out any orphaned registry values along other registry orphaned keys. I no longer have that Chinese programme on my laptop. Sadly, nothing is made in USA, in most electronics and or programming. Need to make things here and let go of China and their products. When you cannot uninstall a programme, it becomes a concern...up to no good, spying, malware, phishing... who knows what it was doing behind the scenes and sending info back important info to China... especially when .dll's were deleted. I should double check under "C drive" in default, users, public, and your access folders: programme files, programme 32 files, common files, anywhere programme's may be stored to be sure it's gone- Ai-otb software. The device alone is super... with several old hdd's and sdd's. Gave myself extra storage devices, yay! Can use windows to format, defrag, delete and etc to that storage device. You can find that device on Device manager and access using disk management programme. Usb port, i have the usb a & c versions. Compactness is small, fits on desk fine. Speed using 3.0 was fast. Functionality got access to the old hdd & sdd drives. The ease of installation: ai-otb software, I'd go against it as discussed above. Good luck.

Worked as advertised. At least on Windows 11 it was plug and play. Some old IDE drives were immediately detected. Was then able to copy a bunch of old files. Good thing too as one of the drives was making horrible grinding noises after years being powered down. Didn't test the one-press backup feature that required you to download some software. But for simply connecting old drives and moving files this worked great.

I got it to work. The solid state drives are too fast for USB 2. The computer will not recognize the drive. However, a USB 3 seems to work okay. Older drives probably will work on USB 2 I haven't been able to get the cloning software and if the cloning works I'll upgrade it to a five. Update. I downloaded the software but it doesn't seem to clone properly. I bought some other software and it does a better job (nti echo) One really good feature is you can retrieve data from old hard IDE drives. I have some junkie computers in the attic and I took out the old hard drives and was able to get some interesting old photographs and things off of them. Even though the hard drives are small and capacity I've reformatted them and use them to store stuff because they last longer than the flash drives. So it's probably pretty good for archiving.

When you still have some older drives kicking around with anything you wish to retrieve this can be a welcomed device. It works well so far, and as far as speed that goes back on the old format and why you ditched them in the first place. So be patient while transferring files. We all got used to the speed of SSD's but the mechanical drives can take a bit to spin up and "see" the information you are looking for. I would recommend this product for its' ease of use and functionality. Not badly priced either.

Worked as designed. I had a PC that went no-boot and wanted to test to see if the SSD still functioned. It didn't. To be sure the Unitek device worked, I tested another SSD and that worked just fine. Because this is powered externally, it works really well with all the drives listed.

It works on some things great. SATA device work perfectly! 1. IDE Seagate Barricuda 80GB drive was recognized by Windows (via a beep), but couldn't see any files, and didn't show up in Disk Manager or Diskpart. The same for a IDE 2 DVD drives, which shows as an USB drive. They work normally in a computer. 2. I tried to connect to a 3-1/2" floppy, but the IDE connector is different and it would not fit physically. (34 pin vs 40 pin) 3. The website URL doesn't work

Amazing product and very economical fix! My home computer crashed and wouldn't boot back up. I tried all sorts of recommended fixes by HP to no avail. I was distraught to say the least because my entire business life was on that hard drive and reproducing the documents would be a monumental task. After a week I finally decided to try an unconventional approach. I disassembled my computer and took the hard drive out which everyone was saying "not going to work". I finally hooked up my old hard drive to my new computer with the cables provided, the hard drive appeared as Windows (D); I found the files under users and after selecting my username and deselecting the "hide files" box, ALL my files began to transfer in!! I opened one from each file folder which was a lengthy project but I needed to make sure the files were usable and they were!!! -Simply amazing! for a product that cost less than $30 when the tech shops started with a price quote of $300 with no guarantee-With a guarantee $599. This adapter kit is a lifesaver....