- Save money on expensive external drives - use an internal CD-RW, DVD or HDD outside your PC
- USB connection to high-speed IDE adaptor
- Power supply provided to power any device
- USB 2.0 high-speed (480 Mbit and full speed 12Mbit) support
- Supports various kinds of ATA/ATAPI based mass storage device port
- Supplied with USB 2.0 IDE adaptor, power cord, power supply, CD driver and user manual
The USB 2.0 to IDE adaptor implements a bridge between one USB port and one ATA or ATAPI based mass storage device port. Compliant with both USB 2.0 and USB 1.1
A RAR file containing the product drivers can be found in the download centre on this product page
Technical Specification
Interface: USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 to 40 pins ATA/ATAPI
Transfer Speed: Full-speed 12Mbps and high-speed 480Mbps
Connectors: One 1m USB A type cable, one 1.3 ohm self powered DC jack, one 4-P power cable for standard HDD/CD-ROM's power unit
Indicators: One red powered LED and one green active LED
Power Source: External power adapter (DC12V1.5A)
Switch: One power ON/OFF switch
Operating temperature: 0 deg C-50 deg C
Stock temperature: -20 deg C - 60 deg C
Humidity: 0%-80% RH, non-condensing
Unit Dimension: 66(L), 55(W), 22(H) 28(H of arc) mm
Certifications: FCC Class B, CE, BSMI
Applications
ATA/ATAPI interface drives such as 2.5", 3.5" HDD and CD-ROM, CD RW, DVD ROM, DVD RW devices. (2.5" HDD need a 40 pin to 44 pin convertor)
Contents
Easy IDE adapter
Switching power adapter
Driver Disk with manual
Grounding screw
2.5" converter cable
OS Supported
Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP
Mac OS.8.6 or higher
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£19.99
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£17.99
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£16.99
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£15.99
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£14.99
Customer Reviews on this Product
MICHAEL
(29/09/2009)
Very pleased with the ide connector,simple and quick to connect and use. Copying files from my old hard drive much easier and quicker than connecting two computers together. Also works well with my old DVD drive for loading and copying to new machine.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q- Could this devise be used to install an OS by connecting a dvd drive?
- simon
Answer- That would depend upon the PCs ability to boot via USB but yes this device would support the use of optical drives.
Q- Is the transfer rate good enough to use a DVD writer for burning disks ? this would save me buying an external writer.
- Ti Emay
Answer- Yes the product does support that.
Q- using this device with several HDD's is it hot pluggable ?
- robbo
Answer- yes it is (you would use the power switch on the unit prior to hard drive insertion each time though).
Q- If you had a damaged laptop, could this be used to transfer data from laptop hard drive to a PC?
- Marc
Answer- Yes the product does support that.
Q- - Will this component enable me to read the data on my OLD pc's hard drive? (i.e. once I connect one end of the component to the old pc's hard drive and the other end to the laptop's usb port)
- Will this component enable me to transfer the data from the OLD pc's hard drive (to either my new laptop computer or to an external hard drive)
- bds09
Answer- Assuming the drive from the old PC is not damaged or password protected/encrypted then yes it should be fine for said purpose.
Q- could this be used for a SCSI device
- Simon Gregory
Answer- This product is for IDE devices only.
Q- Hi,
Will this drive work with 64bit Windows 7?
- Jim Carter
Answer- Yes the product does support that.
Q- Just to let you know that even though it doesn't say it on the box, this works with Windows 7. Don't use the driver CD, just let Win 7 install it.
- Andy
Answer- Many thanks for the feedback
Q- I have an old PC hard drive and I need to transfer the files to a laptop would this work?
- Alisha
Answer- Yes the product does support that.
Q- If the IDE/ATA drive contains more than one partition, will they both be accessible through this device?
- Roger Ford
Answer- yes the product does support that
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