IDE/SATA to USB 2.0 Hard Drive Adapter
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 Speedy, Safe, Secure, Simple!This convenient adapter lets you pass data between a new computer and an old hard drive fast. Access and reformat old internal drives and use them as handy external drives. | ||
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The IDE/SATA Driver's Best Bits
- Use external storage devices without the need for expensive cases
- Great solution for taking data off old computers
- One touch backup function. SATA and 2.5" IDE Hard Disk Drive can even backup at the same time
- Free up memory space on your existing computer
Speedy, Safe, Secure, Simple!
Would you like to use your internal hard disk or CD-ROM drive outside your computer as an external drive? Or perhaps you'd like to save money on expensive and often cumbersome external USB HDDs?
The SATA and IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter is a neat PC accessory that acts as a bridge between your computer's USB port and almost any internal SATA or IDE/ATAPI drive (that's pretty much all recent drives), giving PC users and gadget lovers a portable, convenient and highly versatile alternative to traditional external USB Hard Disk Drives.
The hi-speed USB 2.0 interface ensures fast transfer and easy installation, particularly when combined with the adapter's user-friendly plug and play technology. The adapter is compatible with a multitude of different drive standards, so you can use an old IDE hard drive in a new computer by connecting it to the adapter, or a new SATA hard drive in an old computer. You can even connect two hard disk drives to the adapter at the same time, as well as transfer data between the drives over the adapter.
And that's not all! A big selling point of this indispensable adapter is its ability to format large capacity hard drives which exceed 32GB, unlike the FAT32 system used as standard in Windows 95/98/ME. Using the IDE and SATA Adapter you can format a hard drive of up to 4TB (4000GB), Plus, its handy 1-touch backup option means you can quickly back up important data!
If all these abbreviations have you confused, don't worry, although this product isn't one of the easiest to write about, it is one of the simplest to use and also one of our best sellers, with many thousands of satisfied users.
IDE/SATA Driver can be used with hard drives up to 750gb but IDE/SATADriver can't be used to write from a Mac to a hard drive formatted in NTFS
The IDE/SATA Driver's Specs
- Microsoft windows 98 SE
- Box Dimensions: approx (L)21cm x (W)17cm x (D)5.5cm
- Mac OS 9.22 and above
- CD includes Mac compatible software
- Microsoft windows ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Media Centre and later
- Product Dimensions: approx (L)7.5cm x (W)6.5cm x (D)1.5cm
- Package Weight: 528g
- Supports 2.5" and 3.5" IDE Hard Disk Drive
- Supports 5.25" IDE BOX
- Supports 2.5" and 3.5" SATA Hard Disk Drive
- Supports 5.25" SATA BOX
- Supports SATA and IDE Hard Disk Drive at the same time
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Customer reviews
"I recently purchased the IDE SATA Driver and have found it to be an excellent unit, I already have a couple of external hard drive cases, but they are so cumbersome compared to this unit - plus - this unit will do so much more, and so quickly and efficiently. I would highly recommend it to anyone."
Mr B Hay, Worthing
"I bought this because i had a couple of 1G hard drives with info on, but they'd been removed from previouse upgrades. Worked a treat, now I use them as external storage devices without the expensive cases."
Mr K McAllister, Guildford
"This is an incredible device. Works on PCs and Macs with no problems. Easy to set up. I've got various hard drives (all IDE, no SATA yet) which I've been able to access (and even reformat) using this device. "
Mr G Miles, Ayrshire
"I bought the IDE/Sata to USB adapter a few months ago and found it a godsend, I made a clone of my c drive for back up using the device, a few weeks after I suffered a c drive failure, having made the backup I was able to take the crashed drive out and put the backup in, and not having to re-enstall everything. Bliss! I then formated the crashed drive and recloned the c drive again using the device, just in case. I have just purchased another one so I can swap files between hard drives, as I have several old internal hard drives its cheaper than buying external hard drives with the extra space they take up."
Mr C Schlarb, ipswich
"I have successfully used one bought in April 2007 to recover clients' data from a variety of hard drives with corrupted Windows installations. Have just recommended it to a colleague for the same purpose. Only short-coming is the lack of hardware instructions: 1. It's essential to connect everything EXCEPT the USB cable to the computer, power up the drive, then plug in the USB cable to your computer. 2. ALWAYS use the 'Safely Remove Hardware' facility (in System Tray), otherwise you are likely to corrupt the file system of an external drive."
Mr Guy Attfield, Gloucestershire
"I bought one of these a while ago, and it works OK on a PC, but so far it hasn't worked on my Mac. Although the drive appears on the finder, it doesn't read the files. I suspect it doesn't like Mac formatted drives. I subsequently bought an empty drive enclosure, which worked with my drives with no problem."
Mr Eddie Lord, Copthorne
"I have been operating the USB2.0 File Transfer Cable I purchased for three days now. It has proved extremely simple to use, and I must say I am very pleased with it. I am using it for exchanging files between two Windows PCs -- an older one with a 400MHz Pentium 2 and a newer one with an AMD Athlon X2 dual core. It saves a lot of plugging and unplugging of flash memory sticks, which was my previous way of transferring files. I can imagine other people would find a USB 2.0 File Transfer Cable of this type useful as a cheap way of synchronizing files between a laptop and a PC, if they don't want the complication of a full local area network (LAN). You just plug the cable in to a USB socket on each computer and go!"
Mr Richard Wilson, Staffordshire
Customer Reviews
"I bought the IDE/Sata to USB adapter a few months ago and found it a godsend, I made a clone of my c drive for back up using the device, a few weeks after I suffered a c drive failure, having made the backup I was able to take the crashed drive out and put the backup in, and not having to re-enstall everything. Bliss! I then formated the crashed drive and recloned the c drive again using the device, just in case. I have just purchased another one so I can swap files between hard drives, as I have several old internal hard drives its cheaper than buying external hard drives with the extra space they take up."
Mr C Schlarb, Ipswich