💻 SATA/IDE to USB 3.0 Adapter by Unitek - Universal 2.5"/3.5" IDE and SATA Hard Drive Adapter, Support up to 10TB Review

I have tried to find many ways to get data from an old Win 98 computer such as: a flash drive, writable CD, zip drive, etc., but none of them were incompatible with the old operating system. I ended up spending many hours in vain. I saw a link to such a device while searching the internet and decided to try it. I didn't even have to remove the hard drive from my computer to use it. I simply unplugged the ribbon cable and power connector and then plugged in the adapter and power connector and…

Received my Unitek hard drive adapter yesterday and connected an IDE to it and it worked as advertised. I will use it to backup important files and data from drives I used years ago. I only gave this review 4 stars because of the poor documentation that came with the device. A limitation. If you want to archive old files from drives that have been idle for years, the very first thing you should do is run a virus/malware scan on the drive. You never know what might be on those old discs. For…

First, quick response and delivery. The first hard drive I tried was an old SATA hard drive from my old desktop which is about 10 years old. The work is easy and quicker than I remembered. So easy to set up. Next, the reason I actually got it was because the IDE hard drive is over 20 years old. Tried it for the first time, no luck. It didn't work, didn't recognize the hard drive. My computer played a little tune to indicate something was connected, but that old drive wasn't in my directory. For

My friend has an old HP laptop with a corrupted BIOS and an old 2.5" IDE drive. She wanted pictures from an old laptop, but with a corrupted BIOS, the machine stopped working. downloaded and she (actually both of us) thought the pictures were long gone. Rather than wasting time flashing an old BIOS, I saw this adapter and thought I'd try using it to copy files off my laptop. old IDE hard drive. In short, it was fantastic. I was able to read the old IDE hard drive and after checking for viruses…

I just got my unitek ide/sata drive in the mail and an hour later I got information about my lenovo machine (win 7) which died after a power failure. I think I'm using the SATA drive side. I was one of those lazy, dumb people who didn't really back up except to a computer (sometimes to an external hard drive, but not for long). It pained me to think of all the information I might have lost. I'm still learning how to access my password manager which was also local to the computer (no next time…

This adapter works great! The listing shows several different models, I have an externally powered model with three heads to support 2.5" and 3.5" SATA and IDE and that model is the Unitek Y-3324. It seems to work fine for several drives I've tried. I also have another unpowered SATA USB adapter that works for SSDs but not always for spinning drives as my USB ports are underpowered. For these drives, the Unitek power adapter worked perfectly! I also have a few drives in old clunky external…

My friend has an old HP laptop with a corrupted BIOS and an old 2.5 inch IDE drive. She wanted photos from an old laptop, but with a corrupted bios, the machine wouldn't boot. and she (actually both of us) thought the pictures were long gone. Rather than wasting time flashing an old BIOS, I saw this adapter and thought I'd try using it to copy files from an old laptop. IDE hard drive. In short, it was fantastic. I was able to read the old IDE hard drive and after checking for viruses (there…