FIDECO USB 3.0 to SATA or IDE Adapter for 2.5/3.5 inch SATA IDE Hard Drive

This was the third one that I bought and the only one that would work with my old hard drive. I returned the other two (from two other vendors) that were not as advertised and did not fit a 3.5" IDE drive. This one works just fine.

The adapter works as advertised. Got access to 3 of 5 old drives, 2 were no longer functioning. I verified this by connecting them to an old PC. The access time even on a very old drive was reasonably fast on a USB 3.2 port. I was even able to install and run Linux Mint on one of them and it seamed faster than the older PC's access time. I like that the wires in the 4 pin molex power connector have been epoxied or glued in place it provides a much sturdier feel to to the plug. I also like that the USB cable is removable. Though the selection to use a 2 sided USB A type cord leaves me scratching my head. Why in 2024 is this being sold without a USB C port, and I think this is my only issue with this USB to IDE, 2.5 IDE, and SATA connector. The USB C cord is about 3-feet or one meter. It feels of a reasonable quality. And the additional power supply wall wart has about 6-feet or two meter of cord. And has an output of 12 volts at 3000ma, Though the issue with IDE drives are different jumper settings that may need to be set or changed. This device or any other one cannot magically make a old broken drive, or one with the jumpers not set properly work.

Needed something to access older IDE drives and this was well rated with lots of good reviews. I mostly concur. Works well and it is very straightforward. You can access IDE drives, SATA drives and laptop SATA Drives. The only negative is that the power supply cord for the IDE drives is very flimsy and quite short. I really prefer wires and connectors that feel solid and not like you might accidentally pull the sires out of the connector just while plugging it in or removing it. Regardless, it works fine as long as you don't indeed break it. BOTTOM LINE: One of the best SATA / IDE adapters I have found for the money anywhere. Reviewed: FIDECO USB 3.0 to SATA or IDE Adapter, Hard Drive Adapter Cable Universal for 2.5/3.5 inch SATA HDD/SSD & IDE HDD with 12V/2A Power Adapter

Great product with absolute trash instruction booklet. Had to basically figure it out by myself, due to the like 21 page booklet having only 3 in English and only one with actual usage instructions that only cover like 2 things out of dozens, oddly not any of the more common type things one would need it for.0

Works great. Easy to use. Was able to pull family pictures off some old IDE drives for a friend who had their old windows XP era towers.

I plugged this into some of my old IDE drives and tada, got my data. The SATA connection works great as well. I have both Linux and Windows, and haven't had any issues with either one. I have even used this to rescue data from some clients machines. Definitely recommend if you have some IDE devices that you need data from.

Works as intended. I own other cheaper SATA to USB adapters, but they only work for HDDs or SSDs, and do not work at all for optical drives. I’ve used this product on various BD/DVD/CD drives as well as SATA and IDE HDDs, and it worked perfectly.

Item works well and is versatile with connecting to various types of drives. Only issue is that the speed caps about around 200 MB/s, so fully testing Sata 3 SSD speeds is not doable on this.

El empaque llega en buenas condiciones. Vienen todos los componentes que se mencionan en la publicación, aunque a primera vista parece algo frágil tengo la esperanza de que sirva sin ningún inconveniente y se agradece que traiga un instructivo en diferentes idiomas por si se presenta alguna duda. De momento no lo he podido ocupar, pero en cuanto lo haga actualizaré la reseña.

Doesn’t work

Hasta el momento con más de 2 meses de uso me funciona correctamente y sin problemas

Muy buen producto.

Funciona muy bien, solo la lectura de información es algo lenta