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HomeNetworking DevicesSabrent SATA-C35U Serial ATA to USB 2.0 Cable Converter Adapter with Power Supply |
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13 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 Handly little gizmo Jul 28, 2006
By Derek
Great for when you need to mount a SATA hard drive in a hurry without bothering with an external enclosure. (Mind you not many external enclosures support SATA internally anyway.)
I bought this converter because bad RAM crashed my PC and corrupted WinXP. Since I had to re-install Windows I upgraded my primary SATA hard drive, but I forgot to pull some important files from the old one. Enter this SATA-to-USB adapter. I just plugged in my old drive, it mounted like any other enclosure, and within in minutes I had copied my files.
Note that this device comes with a power brick that has a SATA power connector (not pictured). What's a bit odd is that the power supply has no power switch -- you just plug in your drive to power it up, and unplug the cord to power it down. This is not a problem, of course, but a switch might have been a practical addition.
The actual USB 2.0 performance seems good. I didn't benchmark it, but I had no trouble moving large 1-2GB files, which shouldn't be a problem with any USB 2.0 interface in principle, but I've had USB 2.0 enclosures that choke with big files or flake out from time to time. But not this one, apparently.
And excellent little gizmo.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
works as advertised... Feb 14, 2008
By Jeff Jessen
I needed to back up data from my hard drive after the operating system crashed. Got the cable, hooked it up to my notebook, transfered my files. it was that easy. It's not the most elegant piece of hardware, no switch, two seperate cables, limited instruction book... but all you do is hook it up, the cables only attach one way, plug it in, and you are done. it was inexpensive and worked. what more can you ask?
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
worked great for Tivo WinMFS HDD upgrade Dec 31, 2007
By Jong Lee
Purchased two of these adapters in order to upgrade my TivoHD using WinMFS. Worked great using Vista plug and play.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Simple, Small & Easy to Use Oct 25, 2008
By Lucky *C*
"Pragmatist"
This SATA converter operated perfectly and immediately upon connection to my catastrophically corrupted HD. I used it effectively in conjunction with data recovery software to salvage ten years worth of personal data. I have finally learned my lesson about creating data back-ups, and thanks to this simple and useful device, it was not too late.
Do not hesitate to use this product for recovery or file transfer operations. However, due to the nature of this product, you will have wires strewn about during use, so it not ideal if you are looking for something to use regularly for external data storage. In any event, it was clearly designed for the former use and not the latter.
As others have noted, it requires an outlet for power, rather than drawing it directly over the USB connection. Please do not plan to use as mobile connection for your external storage.
Hope this was helpful.
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
awesome... Jul 03, 2006
By José Luis Chafardet Grimaldi
"José Luis Chafardet Grimaldi"
no other word, awesome, excelent tool.
forget about opening your case, pluging the harddrive to your sata controller, and booting up. it is all on the fly, plug the sata to usb to the drive(sata and power), connect it to the pc, and plug the power to the UPS, and you are ready to extract, add, even format the drive.
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