POSUGEAR USB 3.0 to IDE/SATA Adapter, External Hard Drive Reader, Universal 2.5"/3.5" HDD/SSD Converter, 12V/2A Power Adapter

Absolutely no issues. Works as it should. I used it for every type drive it was advertised to work with. I had drives that had been stored for years, and was able to retrieve all the old data that was on them.

Sadly, few things are as described or as promised. But this one??? It's fantastic. Everything you need is in the box - device, USB 3.0 'beefy' cable, power supply, and small power jack for IDE drives. I ran this thing successfully on 5 drives - 2 of which were old IDE drives. 1 drive I connected was questionable and did not spin up. I don't recall if it was dead 2 years ago or if the device wouldn't work with it but I'm 98% sure it's the old drive's issue. READ THIS! When connecting old IDE drives, this works just fine. But you need to read the fine manual that comes with it. You MUST select MASTER / SINGLE DRIVE with your jumpers on your old IDE drive. Usually a drive shows the location of the jumper on the label with these old drives. It won't work with cable select which is where most of these IDE drives have their jumpers. Once you get this corrected, you'll be able to power up and see the drive post. If you deal with data recovery, either for yourself or others, this is a vital tool to own at a very affordable price. If only we had something this small, compact, and fast 30 years ago when I started in professional I.T.

While the packaging looks nice and the product is easy to use. It did not work as intended. Within seconds, it failed and wouldn't work again. I honestly thought my hard drive was going to catch on fire. Inside the computer, the hard drive worked fine, but on this device, it didn't function properly at all.

Not the best, but it does the job sometimes. Some drives are not loading up, but using a different adapter, they do

POSUGEAR works great no issues so far. Price is good too.

This was a lifesaver for me. The Windows 10 operating system on my older PC crashed. It had a 1 terabyte internal hard drive and another internal 2 TB hard drive. I won't go into all the things I tried to repair the main drive, but trust me, the operating system was FUBAR. So I figured I would try to see if I could somehow read the drives without the OS. So I bought this external hard drive reader and it turned out to be the perfect solution for me. It was easy to use; I plugged in each hard drive that I had removed from my PC and connected it to the USB3 port on my laptop computer. My laptop recognized the external drive, and fortunately for me most of my personal data was still there. From my laptop I was able to run a Window's disk repair (chkdsk command with /f and /r parameters) and was able to extract important data and save it to my laptop, which I then copied to other drives. I used to have an old clunky external hard drive reader that was pretty much useless. But this one is like the Swiss army knife of external drive adapters. It's pretty ingenious how the the various connectors can fit most any hard drive. Anyone who has experienced that sinking feeling when their PC suddenly displays the "blue screen of death" or other software failures will hopefully, like me, bring their blood pressure back down when they realize all is not lost. I realize that there are some computer problems caused by a hard drive's mechanical failure that are not easy to extract data from. But for the low price on this hard drive reader, it's well worth trying.

This product worked perfectly, it even got data off a drive that other computers couldn’t read. No need for the expensive brand names this puppy did the trick.

My husband worked with/on computers his whole life. He always kept the hard drives after he replaced a computer. Now he is retired and came across all his old hard drives. I got this IDE/SATA adapter so he could "see" what was on the old hard drives. With this product that was easy to do. This device comes with a power cable which provides the power for the old hard drive. A USB connection on the device bridges the hard drive to your computer. The pins on your old hard drive are connected to the device by one of the three variations. This process is both quick and easy. The adapter fits both 2.5" and 3.5" hard drives. It is small and weighs about a pound or two, thus it is quite portable, With it you can read and/or copy files between the old hard drive and your computer. If your computer is running out of hard drive space this provides an inexpensive means to have more storage. You could set up hard drives for specific items like music, video, books and various back-up files. The possibilities are limitless.