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Long time I am looking for a simple equipment suitable for HDD testing and saving data on HDD/CD/DVD.

Now I found this adapter made in China:

http://brazil.busytrade.com/products/pr ... 292&cTYPE=

Only 1,8´´ HDD is missing ... But some cable would help, surely.

Please - has anybody experiences with it?
Thanks for your answer.

That thing actually looks pretty cool, you just plug the drives right into the device, only downside is there is not case to enclose the drive. Looks like it's pata and sata compatible, probably one at a time though. Can't really give you a positive "yes buy it" but it does look usable.

savarin wrote:Long time I am looking for a simple equipment suitable for HDD testing and saving data on HDD/CD/DVD.

Vantec makes a similar unit which is widely available around the world....

http://shop3.outpost.com/product/501055 ... IN_RSLT_PG

... I bought one of these at Fry's in Dallas a few weeks back to use for exactly your purpose and it works very nicely, plus it includes a stand alone power supply for a drive!

I bought it as the inevitable onward march of SATA interface technology meant that I needed to replace a similar adapter that I been using for several years that did only IDE and mini-IDE drive interfaces.

Cheers,

Bill B.

Bill, I bought it yesterday and spent all evening playing with it.
Officially it is made in Germany, de facto in China, as everything.

I think it is the same equipment which you have. It is powered from USB port, I got adapter with cable too, in addition plugs for different disks and data cable for 2,5 in. disk.
And a strange cable. I could not understand its purpose. I think it is for adding another same equiment, i.e. these equiments can be joint in train.

What was interesting for me, I tried two IDE devices from my old PC, Pioneer DVD burner and Barracuda HDD with four Thinkpads.
And my T42 did not see anything ...

savarin wrote:And my T42 did not see anything ...

Did you look in the Disk Manager component of the Windows XP Computer Management Console?

You may find that you need to assign a drive letter (or path) in Disk Manager before any drive attached to the device becomes visible in Windows Explorer, or My Computer.

Cheers,

Bill

It's amazing how many of these type of adapters are available, some as low as $13. Try searching using keywords usb ide sata adapter.

Solved.

T42 worked on battery with SpeedStep (some 500 MHz). I suppose USB changes to low powered or stops to work?

With AC adapter is all OK ...