Very Handy Device - IDE/SATA/USB

Robert Leaman · Post by **Robert Leaman** » 1 Jan 2011 11:31 am

I bought a USB to SATA/IDE adaptor cable some time ago and found it be very convenient. I have used this with a Plextor SATA DVD drive, a Western Digital IDE hard drive, and a Plextor IDE CD drive. It comes with several cables and a separate power supply that will power an external device that normally is installed in a computer. I used the device to test some units before installing them. Look at:

http://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-USB-DSC5- ... =de_a_smtd

Hard to beat this for $20.00

If the laptop has a USB port, it will connect.

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Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 1 Jan 2011 12:37 pm

That Amazon link says it will connect ANY IDE or SATA device, but I don't see connectors for laptop drives. Will this connect to them?

Stan Schober · Post by **Stan Schober** » 1 Jan 2011 9:50 pm

Jim Smith wrote:That Amazon link says it will connect ANY IDE or SATA device, but I don't see connectors for laptop drives. Will this connect to them?

Jim, the 2.5 laptop drives connect to one side, and the 3.5 desktop drives connect on the other. SATA connects on the end.

Robert, same item here at Geeks.com for half the price ! I've been dealing with them for years, and they never fail to give good service.

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid ... TB&cpc=SCH

Mitch Drumm · Post by **Mitch Drumm** » 2 Jan 2011 12:26 am

Stan:

Like a dock without the dock. If only I had known about these cables a year ago. I bought a dock for $25.

These things are very very handy. You can connect a spare hard drive to them and use that drive pretty much like any external hard drive or USB drive.

Beats buying an expensive high capacity USB thumb drive or using DVDs for backups.