Vantec USB to SATA/IDE Adapter

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Vantec USB 2.0 to SATA (Serial ATA)/IDE Adapter

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★★★★☆
4.0
For those who do not ...

"For those who do not know, any Hard Drive data transfer through USB (even USB 2.0) will seem VERY slow! Even though USB 2.0 has up to 480Mb/s transfer rate, that is a ''best case scenario'' and is less than 1/6th the speed of your average Hard Drive which is about 3000Mb/s! You will never see a USB 2.0 data transfer go any faster, because the throughput does not exist on USB. If you were expecting blazing speed..." Read Full Review »

Apr 20, 2008 by ratnikh

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"I got this adapter because I replaced my SATA hard drive with a larger one and wanted to transfer my data after loading Windows XP on the new hard drive. Well, I hooked the adapter up and Windows XP displayed the old hard drive and all of the files in My Computer. However, when I tried to copy the files, I got a message that the files were not found and could not be copied. So the adapter is worthless to me. ..." Read Full Review »

May 04, 2009 by tried-it

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For those who do not ...

★★★★☆
4.0

"For those who do not know, any Hard Drive data transfer through USB (even USB 2.0) will seem VERY slow! Even though USB 2.0 has up to 480Mb/s transfer rate, that is a ''best case scenario'' and is less than 1/6th the speed of your average Hard Drive which is about 3000Mb/s!



You will never see a USB …"  Read Full Review »

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I got this thing to get ...

★★★★★
5.0

"I got this thing to get some of the files off a old HD!It worked great on my VISTA laptop.The cd included has the driver but its ONLY for Win 98 (!) common tiger you know better!The good thing it was that it did take the driver in Vista ( or not ) but after saying it was installing it (the drive) I …"  Read Full Review »

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Accidently shut off ...

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5.0

"Accidently shut off computer during disk check resulting in corrupted boot sector & fat table on my laptop. This gizmo enabled me to pull the hard drive out of the laptop, plug in as a USB drive to my desktop and then run chkdsk from the command prompt. Chkdsk fixed the corrupted boot sector and af …"  Read Full Review »

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May 22 2009
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This is a cool tool. I ...

★★★★★
5.0

"This is a cool tool. I got it because my buddy didn't back-up his harddrive.( his motherboard went out) He was willing to pay someone to get his pictures of his newborn back so he bought it for me ( he don't know it ).A PC store where I live was charging $60.00 for the same Item. I had to see what i …"  Read Full Review »

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2.0

"I got this adapter because I replaced my SATA hard drive with a larger one and wanted to transfer my data after loading Windows XP on the new hard drive. Well, I hooked the adapter up and Windows XP displayed the old hard drive and all of the files in My Computer. However, when I tried to copy the …"  Read Full Review »

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