Unitek SATA/IDE to USB 3.0 Adapter, IDE Hard Drive Adapter Kit Recovery Converter for Universal 2.5"/3.5" Inch IDE and SATA External HDD/SSD, Support 10TB

This is the product I had been searching for, for a while. I had a huge stack of old firewire hard drives from 20yrs ago that have been sitting around. I'd been searching for cables to convert the hard drive to, when a friend said just get a bay and pull out the hard drive from the case, and you can convert it to USB from the hard drive bay. I went on YouTube to try and find the easiest way to convert my old firewire drives, and found this product in the video.I successfully removed the drives from all the enclosures and this product worked flawlessly. It's incredibly easy to use, the design is great, and I was able to get the USB-C version to connect it to my Macbook Pro. I've now backed up all data and couldn't recommend this product enough to those in similar situations.

I just realized I love this thing. It small and cool but of course its a downer that you have to have an adaptor, but I am telling you I was half interested if it would turn on when I just used a usb-c to usb3 (i guess) on a 2.5 inch drive AND IT WORKS. I get it it is so simple but man I was dreading looking for the adaptor lol. Just saying. Super plus, that makes it versatile and well thought out. Love it!

Very impressive for the purchase price. I've been able to read IDE, EIDE and SATA drives without a problem. One thing to note is that you don't need an external power supply to power the non-SATA hard drives. The adapter supplies that power using a small pigtail (MOLEX) connector harness. So far I've tried it on Windows 7, 10 and 11 without a problem. I have an old XP laptop that I will try next.

I received this item as scheduled new in box. The converter work great with SATA HDD/SSD drives. I also bought it for a spare internal 3.5 Blu-Ray DVD drive I have laying around and it works. However there is a fly in the ointment. If you unplug it then plug it back in it will not see the DVD drive. Apparently, it now thinks the DVD drive is a HDD and shows an unknown disk drive in Windows Disk Management and Device Manager now shows my Blu-ray drive under "Disk drives" instead of DVD/CD-ROM drives, where it was before unplugging. Only restarting the computer will sort this out. This will happen every time you unplug the DVD drive without restarting the computer; thus the 4 star rating. This is not an issue with HDD/SSD. FYI, I am using Windows 10 Home v.1511 and no longer have Win 7 to try this out on. So, I do not know if this issue is a Win 10 only thing. None the less, the product does work and is a good portable tool for my needs, and relatively inexpensive. With that said, I think they are charging too much for the IDE adapter. I guess that is due to low volume since most drives now are SATA. There are other products out there that will do both SATA/IDE but not 3.5 DVD burners. These units are usually only 5 volts and you need 12 volts for 3.5 DVD burners.

I use this product almost daily for data recovery. Works well and nicely made.

So many tools in one small package. I'm an old salt in IT, where tools exist, "a lot" of separate tools. Appreciate the combined support. Many thanks!

I purchased the Unitek M.2 NVME SATA SSD Enclosure to clone an M2 SSD in a computer to a larger M2 SSD for an upgrade to the same HP Z2 G9 computer. The computer has a USB C 3.2 port matching the speed of Unitek. The drive just had a Windows 11 OS and HP's bloatware on the source drive totaling 72 GB. The clone took less than 3 minutes. When the Unitek doc is connected to a USB C 3.2 port it is supper fast compared to previous docks that I have owned.I am in the IT profession and frequently clone drives. The M2 drive fits tighly in the slot. I recommend this dock for IT professionals. I would not consider using the dock for long term use as an external drive since the drive could be broken while exposed. For quick, single use task such as a drive clone or data transfer, it is a great little dock.

Worked perfectly on a couple HDD's and my CD/DVD burner drive. Appears to be quality product. Would recommend.