Unitek SATA/IDE to USB 3.0 Adapter, IDE Hard Drive Adapter Kit Recovery Converter for Universal 2.5"/3.5" Inch IDE and SATA External HDD/SSD, Support 10TB

Works well for retrieving files from an old hard drive that wouldn’t boot to windows. Easy plug and play and drag over files from the user folder. Price is also very reasonable and half the cost of most other enclosures.

This great little device was incredibly simple to use - literally plug-n-play. I had an HP laptop fail to power up after 8 years [imagine-an antique] and luckily I had always backed up on a Seagate external drive...that was also many years old. I fell into the bad habit of using the Seagate to access old stuff from the new Acer laptop....until the Seagate crashed. Unrecoverable. I still had the old HP and had the idea that the hard drive could still be good since the failure was a power issue. SO...I invested in this adapter and plugged in the old hard drive that I removed from the HP carcass. BNGO - everything was still there: all the documents, photos and other files that I was certain were lost forever. Now that old drive is backed up on a higher end SanDisk drive and a cloud backup is pending.This device comes with it's own power supply and brief instructions - which are all you need. Not everyone will have the same good fortune that I did, but for the price this adapter / reader was an incredible value.

This is the product I had been searching for, for a while. I had a huge stack of old firewire hard drives from 20yrs ago that have been sitting around. I'd been searching for cables to convert the hard drive to, when a friend said just get a bay and pull out the hard drive from the case, and you can convert it to USB from the hard drive bay. I went on YouTube to try and find the easiest way to convert my old firewire drives, and found this product in the video.I successfully removed the drives from all the enclosures and this product worked flawlessly. It's incredibly easy to use, the design is great, and I was able to get the USB-C version to connect it to my Macbook Pro. I've now backed up all data and couldn't recommend this product enough to those in similar situations.

I received this item as scheduled new in box. The converter work great with SATA HDD/SSD drives. I also bought it for a spare internal 3.5 Blu-Ray DVD drive I have laying around and it works. However there is a fly in the ointment. If you unplug it then plug it back in it will not see the DVD drive. Apparently, it now thinks the DVD drive is a HDD and shows an unknown disk drive in Windows Disk Management and Device Manager now shows my Blu-ray drive under "Disk drives" instead of DVD/CD-ROM drives, where it was before unplugging. Only restarting the computer will sort this out. This will happen every time you unplug the DVD drive without restarting the computer; thus the 4 star rating. This is not an issue with HDD/SSD. FYI, I am using Windows 10 Home v.1511 and no longer have Win 7 to try this out on. So, I do not know if this issue is a Win 10 only thing. None the less, the product does work and is a good portable tool for my needs, and relatively inexpensive. With that said, I think they are charging too much for the IDE adapter. I guess that is due to low volume since most drives now are SATA. There are other products out there that will do both SATA/IDE but not 3.5 DVD burners. These units are usually only 5 volts and you need 12 volts for 3.5 DVD burners.

I didn't have great expectations for this. I had several old IDE hard drives from my recently passed father in law to go through. This worked FANTASTICALLY. Quick to switch drives and works great with IDE and SATA drives. I am very happy!

Works as advertised, plug n play. Compact, dependable and priced right!

I had some external hard drives that went bad and so I disassemble them and hooked them up to this connector and it was able to read all the data. I didnt want to spend much as I wont use it often, but for the price it worked perfect for my situation. Would recommend it to others if they needed one.

Saw this recommended on YouTube when I was looking on how to move an HHD to an SSD for my laptop. Using it right now to do that and it works like a charm. I converted my desktop PC to SSD but that was a clean install of Windows 11 on a brand new motherboard so this adapter wasn’t needed. I have the old HHD from the desktop PC and use it as a backup drive. I think I’ll use this adapter to wipe the old HHD and set it up as an external backup drive. This adapter with its power supply will be useful.