An ingenious little helper ...

Typical initial situation of a casual computer screwdriver: installation of a new hard drive in a computer - but now the data must be transferred to the old record ... Or: There still is an older hard drive in the computer box - what was the same again on it? I used the built-in necessity drives an external enclosure. Too bad that there was once a 2.5 inch, 3.5 times an inch disk. Time IDE, SATA times. With a single external housing, it was not done, aside from the required Schrauberei times. Accordingly, I was very excited when I got this adapter set found, if so this kind scenarios would be easy to master.

In the package, everything is there, what you need: The adapter, which can infect each directly to 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch IDE drives. Then a SATA cable to connect to SATA disks. A power supply and appropriate power adapter so that the board is running at all. And a driver CD, I have however never been inserted into a computer, because the Adapter on different systems (Windows Vista 32-bit and Windows 7 64-bit) also functioned so.

The build quality is quite noteworthy, sometimes make such accessories but also a rather windy little impression. Why it was however necessary to incorporate 2 LEDs flash so that it just disappears and you can not read the label next to the LED, do not open up to me.

If I would have still required a, then the option to connect via USB 3.0. In the above-mentioned purposes of use, it often comes to transferring large amounts of data, so that makes a faster transmission noticeable. A pure SATA adapter with USB 3.0 there is the way of Digitus which probably is the better choice for those who need to connect any IDE drives.

Conclusion: A really useful product that has my expectations completely.