FIDECO USB 3.0 to SATA or IDE Adapter, Hard Drive Adapter Cable Universal for 2.5/3.5 inch SATA HDD/SSD & IDE HDD with 12V Power Adapter

I needed to pull drives out of a pile of old laptops. I didn’t know if the drives were SATA or IDE. So I bought this to cover my bases. It turned out that all of the drives were IDE. Each of them were plugged into this powered adapter and successfully read by my Windows 11 laptop. The package contains the adapter, a USB cable, and power supply. It’s much smaller than I expected and worked perfectly. Highly recommend!!

The adapter works as advertised. Got access to 3 of 5 old drives, 2 were no longer functioning. I verified this by connecting them to an old PC. The access time even on a very old drive was reasonably fast on a USB 3.2 port. I was even able to install and run Linux Mint on one of them and it seamed faster than the older PC's access time. I like that the wires in the 4 pin molex power connector have been epoxied or glued in place it provides a much sturdier feel to to the plug. I also like that the USB cable is removable. Though the selection to use a 2 sided USB A type cord leaves me scratching my head. Why in 2024 is this being sold without a USB C port, and I think this is my only issue with this USB to IDE, 2.5 IDE, and SATA connector. The USB C cord is about 3-feet or one meter. It feels of a reasonable quality. And the additional power supply wall wart has about 6-feet or two meter of cord. And has an output of 12 volts at 3000ma, Though the issue with IDE drives are different jumper settings that may need to be set or changed. This device or any other one cannot magically make a old broken drive, or one with the jumpers not set properly work.

Well priced and works as expected. The sad part is a dead powered drive is not going to be read. It doesn’t have a 12 v power unit. But for d as lo my other drives I inflected it worked great.

Works great, definitely good to have.

Works Well

Needed something to access older IDE drives and this was well rated with lots of good reviews. I mostly concur. Works well and it is very straightforward. You can access IDE drives, SATA drives and laptop SATA Drives. The only negative is that the power supply cord for the IDE drives is very flimsy and quite short. I really prefer wires and connectors that feel solid and not like you might accidentally pull the sires out of the connector just while plugging it in or removing it. Regardless, it works fine as long as you don't indeed break it. BOTTOM LINE: One of the best SATA / IDE adapters I have found for the money anywhere. Reviewed: FIDECO USB 3.0 to SATA or IDE Adapter, Hard Drive Adapter Cable Universal for 2.5/3.5 inch SATA HDD/SSD & IDE HDD with 12V/2A Power Adapter

I've got some old 3.5 inch IDE hard drives and SATA 3.5 inch hard drives from old potato computers, and this reader was able to read all of them without issues. It also works with 2.5 inch SATA SSD. It is plug and play. Other than a power outlet and an USB port on a computer, you don't need anything else since there is no driver to install

This unit is supposed to allow one to connect IDE/PATA and SATA drives to to a computer. It does. I have been unable to connect my DVD drive to my M4 MAC Mini. My Sabrent dock works fine with SATA SSDs and HDDs, but not the DVD. This guy works great! I appreciate the little power switch that lets me turn the drive off. Hook it up, it works.

Compré uno de otra marca y tuve que devolverlo porque no pudo con los discos de conector IDE. Pensando que el problema serían los discos, lo probé. Funciona de maravilla, respaldé mis 10 discos duros y recuperé información de los últimos 15 años. Una chulada.

Doesn’t work

El producto la verdad me sorprendió bastante, el precio/calidad es super bueno, muy funcional. La verdad esperaba mucho menos y realmente hasta el empaque super bien, por ahora lo prove con un sata 2.5 y va de maravilla sin tanto rollo. Solo debería poner algún disipador al disco ya que si se calientan bastante.

Muy buen producto, sencillo de utilizar.

Funciona muy bien, solo la lectura de información es algo lenta