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The Coolgear USB 3.0 to IDE/SATA Adapter is a versatile and efficient tool designed for seamless data transfer between various hard drives. With a write-protect selection feature, it ensures your data remains secure while offering compatibility with both SATA and IDE drives. Its compact design and plug-and-play functionality make it an essential accessory for any tech-savvy professional.
Brand | COOL GEAR |
Series | FBA_127ASD |
Item model number | FBA_127ASD |
Item Weight | 1.3 pounds |
Product Dimensions | 8 x 5.2 x 2.9 inches |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 8 x 5.2 x 2.9 inches |
Color | Black |
Manufacturer | Coolgear |
ASIN | B005C55OYA |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | July 11, 2011 |
C**P
True USB 3.0 Read Rates
I have been in the LE Digital Forensics field for 11 years and have used the best of the best out there. I recently took a side job with a private firm and was building out my own quick response rig. Not wanting to spend $400+ on a Tableau I picked up this thing. Going in I was not super optimistic, but for the price, why not. With some quick bench marking I determined this thing can hold its own and is pulling true USB 3.0 speeds. I'm not talking UASP speeds, but it beat a 5400 RPM USB 3 external drive (albeit with a 7200rpm drive attached). I will be verifying hashes before giving it any case work, but others have tested that and it held up. The only thing I didn't see in any other reviews was speed bench marking, so here it is, screenshot attached. Give it a shot, even if it lasts a year it's worth it.
A**R
Write-Block tested in Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux
I purchased this device to test the Write-Protect capability. I tested it using both Paladin Forensics, a variant of Ubuntu, and Windows 7. The drive tested was an OCZ I began with establishing my MD5 and SHA1 hashes of the entire drive. I then tested an attempted full forensic wipe (zero) of the drive, normal format, file write, and file edit. The drive blocked all attempts with either errors or notifications that the drive is write protected. At the end of the testing, the MD5 and SHA1 hashes remained the same.The only caveat to this device is that the manual states that the write protect switches must be toggled before powering on the device. So you must triple-check that the toggle-switches are enabled properly before turning it on and plugging it into the host.I am giving it five stars on the price basis alone. This device competes with the CRU/WiebeTech Forensic ComboDock V5 ($299.99) and the Tableau T35u Bridge ($349.99).I have not tested this device for speed capabilities, nor have I tested on Macs.
A**N
Write blocker appears to work well.
Bought it for the write blocker, which appears to be functional. It gave me an error when I tried to mount a SATA disk with write permissions enabled, which is exactly what I expected it to do. I do, however question how accurately it is transferring data, as the md5sum of the output file was not the same as the md5sum of the drive device object mounted within linux (dd output img file vs /dev/sdb) If this was a mistake in process on my part, then I would happily give it another star, as this did function for creating a disk image without me having to fork over several hundred for a certified forensic drive imager..
C**K
UPDATED Nice but didn’t work for my IDE drive. Hoping it will work for a SATA.
I bought this to read an old IDE drive. It seems to be of good quality, but sadly, I couldn’t get it to work with my IDE drive. I am not sure if it is the device or the drive which is why I didn’t return it and rated it in the middle. Hopefully if I have a need to read a Sata drive it will work.UPDATE: 7/26/2020I had the opportunity to try it again on a few other IDE drives as well as a SATA Drive. 2 of the 4 IDE connected to it. Since they are old, I am assuming it is the drive's fault, not this device. The SATA Drive also connected.Therefore, I am changing my rating from 3 stars to 5 stars.
D**D
Terrible hardware/firmware causes constant USB bus resets
This hardware is an absolute disaster. I bought it to clone the 6 TB HGST drives from my RAID array to newer, larger drives. What I found was the biggest mess of non-compliance that I've ever seen.On macOS, the operating system gives up on the drive entirely after double-digit minutes, and the device disappears and reappears suddenly, along with everything else attached to the same USB controller.On Linux (Raspberry Pi 4), performance varies semi-randomly between 80 Mbps and 130 Mbps. When it is at the low end of that range, it is because the device is *spewing* USB bus resets almost continuously, requiring retry after retry. *Sometimes* it gets through an entire copy operation, but it frequently just plain stops just like it does on the Mac.I don't believe for one minute that this device can possibly work reliably under Windows, either. There's just no way that any operating system could plausibly reliably support a device that is this badly behaved. If it does, it's a fluke, and is only because Windows isn't actually using the drive at anywhere near full speed, i.e. with the write software, even on Windows, you should be able to make this USB-SATA bus bridge keel over and die.And at this point, given the sheer number of errors I'm seeing, I can't trust a single byte of what this bus bridge read from the disk. I'm going to have to start over with somebody else's hardware. That's an entire week wasted because of this piece of garbage.This hardware is just plain junk. It's going back.
S**Z
Slow
I am a partner in a computer forensics business and I do a fair number of forensic acquisitions. We own several Tableau write blockers. They Tableaus are pretty much the industry standard. I did buy and test one Wiebe Tech write blocker with a SATA connector and it was very slow compared to the Tableau. I also purchased a Wiebe Tech USB 2.0 write blocker and it did not work on most USB disks.I keep one Tableau at home in case I get a call to to an acquisition at odd hours. This Cool Gear was appealing as a backup device; the price is certainly low. After using it and testing it a while I think it is just OK. It does work as a write blocker, but I seem to get USB 2.0 speeds with it even though it is a USB 3.0 device. It's usable for throwing on my computer and taking a look at a disk that I don't want anything to be written to, but it is too slow to use in most disk acquisitions.
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