StarTech.com USB 2.0 to IDE SATA Adapter - 2.5 / 3.5" SSD / HDD - USB to IDE & SATA Converter Cable - USB Hard Drive Adapter (USB2SATAIDE),Black

Buon prodotto funziona benissimo

J’ai récupéré mes données sur disque dur interne. Port usb 2 parfait pour les anciens disques et pc. On a toutes les connectiques et un cd d’installation dont je n’ai pas eu besoin.Pas besoin de logiciel pour décharger les données au nouveau pc.

Ordered this item July 25, 2013 and received it the next day. My son had an Acer laptop that got fried after his son spilled iced Tea all over the keyboard. The laptop was about 5 or 6 years old but my daughter-in-law stored all her digital camera pictures on the hard drive. With the laptop fried, there was no way to retrieve the pictures. She gave it to a friend of hers to see if the pictures could be saved but with no luck. I asked her to let me look at the laptop to see what I could do. After getting the laptop, I found out real fast that there was a short circuit somewhere on the printed circuit board. I then proceeded to pull the hard drive out of the laptop, hoping that it wasn't crashed. Then I hunted around for a device that could both power up the hard drive and extract the information via USB2 connector. Google led me to Amazon where I hit on this device. After reading all the good and bad posts, I figured it was a crap shoot and maybe I would get lucky. So I ordered the  StarTech USB 2.0 to SATA IDE Adapter (USB2SATAIDE)  from Amazon. I had two other hard drives laying around both of which were IDE hard drives. The hard drive I pulled from my son's laptop was a SATA hard drive. I decided to test the adapter on the IDE drives first. When trying to plug the data pickup device to the IDE drive, I found that lining up the pins on the hard drive was challenging and very stiff. The first time I bent a couple pins on the hard drive. After straightening them out, I tried to plug the data pickup to the drive again. This time I was successful. I disconnected and reconnected the device to the hard drive a few time and the operation got smoother. As another poster noted, before hooking the USB2 connector to your computer, hook up the power supply and data pickup to the hard drive first and then turn the power on. If it doesn't blow up, then plug the USB2 connector to your computer. My OS is Windows 7 64 bit and the OS picked up the USB2 connection automatically, which meant that I didn't have to mount any drivers for the StarTech device. I opened Windows Explorer and found the hard drive listed as Drive F:. Opening the F drive, I reviewed the hard drive contents and copied a few files from the hard drive to a temporary folder I created on my computer hard drive. Seeing that this worked fine, I then disconnected the USB2 connector ONLY AFTER CLICKING ON THE USB ICON IN SYSTEM TRAY REQUESTING TO DISCONNECT THE USB2. After getting confirmation that the USB2 was safe to disconnect, I pulled the USB2 connector from my computer. I shut all power off to the Startech and disconnected the IDE hard drive. Now I connected the hard drive from the laptop. This hard drive is a Toshiba HDD2D92 SATA hard drive. After connecting the power cable to the SATA hard drive, I hooked up the SATA cable from the hard drive to the data pickup device. Upon completion, I then powered up and no mushroom cloud. I then plugged the USB2 connector to my computer and Viola! I had access to the laptop hard drive. To make sure I didn't run up against any locked folders on the laptop drive, I took ownership of the whole drive. I found where the camera pictures were located and copied them over to a temporary folder on my hard drive. There were 4900 pictures in all. All told, it took me about 3 hours to do all the above steps. Since I'm retired, I work slowly making sure I don't take any shortcuts that could create problems. This item worked as advertised. Not recommended for long term usage as an aux drive connection. It takes up too much room on my desk and has to be close (~15 inches) from the USB2 receptacle. I highly recommend this item for emergency hookup to a hard drive that is removed from it's parent computer. Oh, by the way, there is an instruction booklet included in the package, but I didn't notice it until after I was done doing my transfers. The connections are intuitively easy. Even a caveman can do it. StarTech USB 2.0 to SATA IDE Adapter (USB2SATAIDE)

A dispetto di altri modelli a basso costo (se ne trovano a meno di 5,00 euro privi di alimentatore tutti cloni del medesimo modello di anonima origine) ho voluto osare la scelta di questo che esteticamente prometteva una natura di progetto originale anche in virtu di un alimentatore in apparenza piu' versatile dotato di un alimentatore a doppia presa "molex" e "sata" e la constatazione del prodotto che mi e' arrivato e' andata oltre le mie speranze.Il modulo adattatore appare di fattura robusta ed anche elegante ma la vera sorpresa e' stato scoprire che il modello che mi e' stato spedito e' stato ulteriormente perfezionato rispetto a quanto presentato nelle specifiche a vantaggio di noi utenti. Il prodotto nuovo e' diverso ma e' piu' vantaggioso per noi utenti (ed amazon dovrebbe aggiornare le foto)Il vantaggio e' che l'alimentatore e' effettivamente composto da due moduli:- un alimentatore 12v 2000mA- un adattatore ad Y che converte ATTIVAMENTE i 12v a due uscite a tensione multipla 5V 12VQuesto e' un vantaggio enorme perche' consente lo sfruttamento di qualsiasi alimentatore monotensione 12V 2A di piu' facile reperibilita' mentre i ricambi a doppia alimentazione 5V/12V sono piu' costosi e laboriosi da trovare. Siccome, in caso di uso intensivo, questi alimentatori si consumano e si guastano dopo pochi anni, grazie all'adattatore ad Y in dotazione sara' possibile rimediare con il semplice acquisto di un monotensione 12V almeno 2000mA facilmente reperibile anche nei negozi di elettronica in citta'.Attenzione solo che l'alimentatore arriva con montata la presa di standard orientale. Bisogna smontarla e sostituirla con il nostro standard. Avrebbero fatto meglio a fornirla smontata per poter piu' facilmente intuire la necessita' di applicare la presa dello standard desiderato

I used it to transfer files to my og xbox, at first i was skeptic but when i plugged it in it worked like charm.