USB 3.0 to SATA IDE Adapter, Hard Drive Reader External Ultra Recovery Converter Compatible with 2.5" 3.5" HDD, SSD,5.25-inch DVD/CD-ROM Optical Drive Data Transfer with Power Supply

I've used it just on one laptop, and I have 3 or four more. So far it works fantastic. And I even plugged it into like a 3.2. Red usb port and it. worked really well, so there's that. would recommend shipped fast. packaged well.

This hard drive adapter can be a life saver when needing to recover files from older hard drives. It was easy to setup and use. If you need one this is one you can count on.

Works fine. Having said that, I could NOT get it to work at all with an old IDE 3.5 inch Windows XP WD HDD. After a couple of frustrating hours and subsequently reading some of the reviews here I noticed that several people had encountered the same difficulty. The solution was very simple and 2-fold:1. Make sure that the HDD is fully connected and powered on BEFORE you plug in the USB cable to the receiving computer. Even so, it'll take minute or 2 before the drive actually shows up in your "My PC" window. Be patient - it'll show up.2. Do NOT plug the USB cable into a USB-3 receptacle. All you'll get is "Please insert a disk into the USB drive" message. Instead, plug into a USB-2 receptacle and it'll be just fine. Once it shows up, then click on the USB Drive letter to open the drive. Again, be patient. It'll take a little bit but as long as the drive itself is fine, everything will show up and you can then do whatever you need to. In my case it was to make a copy of all the data that was on that old IDE HDD.I'm giving it 4 stars instead of 5, even though it works perfectly, because there was nothing in the sparce instructions that lead me to this solution for a non-working device. I had to search these comments to find out how to solve my problem.5 stars for the device, minus 1 because of my frustration with getting it to work.

I plugged it in and it just worked. In my case, I connected a SATA optical drive to both a Windows and a Linux system with it. Perfect.

¡Muy satisfecho con la compra! El producto llegó en buen estado, cumple con lo que promete y la calidad me sorprendió para bien. Sin duda lo volvería a comprar.

Simply worked

Doesn't work. I purchased this to be able to access data from an old 2.5" IDE hard drive. Plugging the drive in, I can feel it spin up and it shows up as a D: drive on the computer, but clicking on the D: drive hangs the computer. Because I wasn't sure if the IDE drive was bad, I connected a SATA SSD that works perfectly fine when directly attached to the computer. Same results. If this device is turned on, the computer just hangs when trying to access anything attached to it. If I turn it off, the computer recovers.

Spent hours trying to look into old IDE hard drives I had. Then I realised the key tab on their plug didn't necessarily line up and the plug could go in skipping the first two or the last two pins on the drive. Once I realized this I was able to check them all easily.