Vantec 2.5"/3.5"/5.25" SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter - Model CB-ISATAU2 Vantec 2.5"/3.5"/5.25" SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter - Model CB-ISATAU2

Pros: First unit worked fine a couple of times.

Cons: Unit died after about the third time using it. However, it was within the 45 day return time frame.

Other Thoughts: The adapter is very useful, so I called Newegg for a replacement. As I've come to expect, they replaced it without any problems. And THAT is why I do business with them!

Pros: works perfectly on all three kinds of drives and is super cheap

Cons: doesn't cook me breakfast

Other Thoughts: buy this and use it well fellow IT pros; like me.

Pros: Worked perfectly, no issues whatsoever. The transfer speed was fast, use was quick and easy, and it detected any drive I threw at it (with the exception of a drive that had, apparently, died shortly before I removed it from the PC).

Cons: Nothing really, it was a little awkward to figure out how to plug things in since the instructions were lacking but it's easy enough to figure out.

Pros: works for sata and ide laptop and the standard ide too works well for transferring data to another pc

Cons: wish there were rubber feet on the psu it comes with other than that nothing at all

Pros: Works well, connected to older and newer hard drives. Sata and IDE, The supplied power supply functions fine.

Cons: None so far.

Other Thoughts: Have not tried the IDE laptop connection yet, but will in the future. Seems to works well for me.

Pros: Works perfectly for both of my CD Drive and IDE Hard Drive.

Cons: Sata Cable way too short, useless...

Pros: this adapter can be a snap to use, i.e pretty much just plug and play, or it can be little tricky depending on your situation.

if the hard drive you want to connect is simply a storage drive (filled with docs, images, vids, etc. but no operating system) then you can be up and running pretty quickly, albeit you may have to fiddle with the drive's jumper settings (master, slave) depending on the type of drive you're attaching (i believe the documentation says to set the jumpers to master, but that doesn't always work).

however if the drive you're connecting has an operating system loaded, say an older os than your current system, and it is from a different machine (i.e. different hardware configuration) you may have to jump through a few ownership hoops in order to get it up and running as the old os will not recognize the system, resulting in an access denied error.

my experience: with jumpers set to master i attached my old drive (lmaxtor, xp loaded along with a ton of other files, removed from a different machine) to my new machine that has windows 8/64 installed. the drive did not show up in explorer, disk management or device manager - what did show up was the yellow question mark in device manager under other devices.

i then set the jumpers to slave and tried again - this time the drive showed up in explorer, disk management and device manager. however when i selected the drive in explorer i got an access denied message even though i am the administrator.

after a quick google search i found this solution:

1. command prompt: takeown /F "F:" /A /R /D Y where "F:" is your drive letter.

2. and take ownership of the drive via disk management as outlined here:

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2808-take-ownership-file-folder-drive-registry-key-windows-8-a.html

seems like a lot of messing around but it really is painless and quick once you know what to do - hope some find this helpful.

Cons: none

Pros: great concept

Cons: so far no luck getting it to work (maxtor hd (ide) windows 8) after messing around with it for a while. i did notice that i get different results when playing with the hd jumpers... when i set it to master the drive does not show up in disk management or explorer but a question mark does show up under other devices in device manager. when i set the jumpers to slave it shows up in computer management and in explorer but gives me an access denied error when i try to select it. haven't given up on it yet, if i can get it to work i'll update this review...

Other Thoughts: a snap to set up.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued Customer,
We try hard to provide our customer with the best service. If you have questions about our products, please feel free to write to us for assistance at support@vantecusa.com. We will try our best to answer your questions. Thank you for looking into our products. We do value your patronage.
Best Regards, Vantec

Pros: None.

Cons: Could not make it work at all. Tried 3 different IDE drives. Windows 7 could not recognize the usb connection at all, and disk management could not either. Conclusion is that the unit is defective.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued Customer,
We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you. We do provide a one year warranty from the date of purchase on your product, so feel free to get that exchanged for a brand new unit.
Please contact support@vantecusa.com
Best Regards, Vantec

Pros: Easy to use, versatile, and so very convenient! Whenever I need to do a surface scan on a HDD, or need a CD/DVD drive for my tablet for a minute... It's great just being able to grab this and hook it to the drive without having to deal with an enclosure which could involve screws and having to have a few different ones around. (One for IDE, one for Sata)

Cons: Plug - This is no fault of the product as the drive(s) need power to work. It just would be so much greater if you could plug one end to drive and other to PC without having to have a plug available too! Not always an easy task! Might just have to start searching the USB 3.0 ones to see if I can find one bus powered.