I was for many years an external HD 500 G with a fairly complete connectivity which I was very satisfied, and then one morning he will not start. Panic on board since I still had some important data on it, and especially because I did not know if the failure was from the disk or the housing. This article was an economical solution for knowledge and in addition it could still be used for other thereafter. Amazon has delivered me as usual very quickly and within minutes I was then able to recover all my data. Even if I take a model with firewire port I'll keep this one carefully especially since it allows to use either the IDE or SATA drives and everything is so simple and well explained that it can be in all hands. Would recommend without hesitation