UnitekSATA/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 great little device was incredibly simple to use - literally plug-n-play. I had an HP laptop fail to power up after 8 years [imagine-an antique] and luckily I had always backed up on a Seagate external drive...that was also many years old. I fell into the bad habit of using the Seagate to access old stuff from the new Acer laptop....until the Seagate crashed. Unrecoverable. I still had the old HP and had the idea that the hard drive could still be good since the failure was a power issue. SO...I invested in this adapter and plugged in the old hard drive that I removed from the HP carcass. BNGO - everything was still there: all the documents, photos and other files that I was certain were lost forever. Now that old drive is backed up on a higher end SanDisk drive and a cloud backup is pending.This device comes with it's own power supply and brief instructions - which are all you need. Not everyone will have the same good fortune that I did, but for the price this adapter / reader was an incredible value.

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.

Works great for both HDDs and an old DVDRW+ drive I had laying around. Basically anything you would want to power and run on sata this runs at close to internal speed with usb3.

I successfully used this first on an old drive from a 2001ish PC then on a different type hard drive from a 2006ish laptop then on an SSD drive from a 2013 laptop. So, two out of the three interfaces worked fine. Finally on the homestretch I plugged in the HDD drive from the same 2013 laptop (this was in the third, so far unused interface) and all I got was a chirp when I turn on the switch. Nothing shows up on the screenview of my files page. I switched it off, restarted my PC, changed USB ports, switched it on and got the same power-switch-chirp but nothing on the screen. I contacted the seller and asked for a replacement and was told to take photos of my setup, my device management and disc management screens as well as to try it on another computer/SATA drive (which I don't have) so they can consider if there is a problem. I say if I have successfully used it on two of the three connector interfaces it's pretty plain to me at least that the problem is with that third one. I asked for a replacement not a refund. I wouldn't advise anyone else to buy this thing. That's $30 down the drain.8/28/2021The seller got in touch with me and offered suggestions as to what to try to get my PC to copy over contents of my HDD. After going to the three websites they directed me to I pointed out that every one of them listed possible that a bad cable could be a reason for trouble. With the first adapter I was getting the Virtual Disk Manager message: The request failed due to a fatal device hardware error. With the replacement they sent I am told that the drive is uninitialized.I was still unable to read my HDD but I did very much appreciate the help and the replacement to try.

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!

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.

My graphics on the motherboard went out, nothing but shaking on the screen. With windows 10 and 10 yeards later, I was ready for a new computer. This item let's me pick and choose what to bring across to the new one. I am very happy.

It works, just as it should! Gives quick access to hard drives and optical drives!