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Question: can it connect to IDE and SATA at same time?  I have an IDE optical drive and SATA HDD.  Can I use one adapter to connect both of them?
Document: This adapter is very convenient. I've been able to connect my SATA drive (recovered from a dead Apple Time Capsule) to my computer in 2 minutes.However you can see that the quality is medium. In particular I had to manually re-align the male pins of the power connector to fit in female one.
USB 2.0 to SATA + IDE (2.5 / 3.5 / 5.25") Cable Adapter: Turn any hard drive into a portable drive...? This product works. I had used this product or a number of occassions to help rebuild crashed computers, and still same crashed hard drives. The ease and use of product and reliability goes without say. Buy one today!
Faulty MOLEX-SATA adapter. Fried the PCB on my HDD. I did get a refund but I had to pay for the replacement board on my hard drive out of my own pocket. If you're going to get one be sure to check it on your multimeter first as it's apparent no one else has.
Advertised as able to connect any SATA/IDE internal hard drive. It does not. The interface apparently fits only old, desktop-style hard drives. It's completely useless for modern laptop drives. I returned it immediately and bought a much better one for less than half the price of this antique. The &#34;User S ' Manual&#34; (sic) is one page about the size of one sheet of toilet paper, and less useful.
Just got it from Amazon today, and I was excited to get it as I needed to move a ton of data from an old IDE drive to a new SATA drive.Pro:- Cheapest, faster solution I could find.- Incredibly easy to use. My 8 year old was helping me, and he figured out all the connections.- Did not need to restart the PC, or connect and then turn the PC on.
I use this kit to connect new or old individual bare (not in an enclosure)hard drives for a variety of functions. I recover data, add data, format or transfer data from other media. It works just like a normal USB drive when connected. The only confusing area is when connecting an IDE drive. For a 31/2 inch drive you use one side of the provided connector and the other side for a 21/2 drive.
I used this twice and thought it was great that I have a support tool for hard drive transfers, but after trying to use it a little over a month later, during which time it was in the box, I found that the cheap components used in the SATA power adapter were all broken and misaligned. Again, this was the third time I was trying to use it.
I recover information from crashed or virus-infected hard drives, and this tool makes my job a whole lot easier. Before finding this USB to IDE adapter, I would sometimes have to tear open two computers (the one with the bad hard drive and the one that I am going to use to recover the information on the disk with).
These adapters are very handy. They support both 3.5 and 2.5 IDE and SATA drives. They are a tiny bit finicky. You must power up the drive with the supplied AC adapter BEFORE you plug the USB cable into the computer. If you don't do this, my personal experience has been that the attached device may not be recognized by the host computer.Much less expensive and far more versatile than most external enclosures. Also quicker to use.
This adapter allows you to connect hard-disk drives from desktop or laptop computers to another computer via a USB port. Why would you want to do that? Most commonly, people use this when they upgrade a hard disk drive to a larger one. In a laptop, where there's only one hard drive bay, copying everything on the existing disk means using a second one externally.
Answer: I do not think you can connect them at the same exact time.  I have mine hooked up to a power supply from a computer and that way I can access it as a extra drive when I need it.  It has a 500 gig hard drive and that is nice not to have the computer ways spinning the extra platters.steve