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C2G Cables to Go 30504 USB 2 0 to IDE or Serial ATA Drive Adapter Cable Black 33 Inch

Last Updated: November 24, 2018 (Refresh Now)
8.0
SCORE
/10
Total Reviews
999
Old Reviews
883
Unverified
19
Spam Test
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Yes
USB
2
NUMBER OF USB PORTS

Review Analysis - 97 recent, verified reviews

Detailed Mode
USB
 19
ide, drives, sata, hard drive, old hard drives
+95%
-5%
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" ...  Able to connect sata and ide drives.  ...  "
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" ...  Great IDE to USB cables for old hard drive. ... thanks for this cable, I would be able to get everything from the hard drive.  ...  "
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" ...  Used this and was able to pull all the document files off the dying hard drive and on to the new hard drive I bought from Amazon.  ...  "
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" ...  Worked great on modern and older hard drives.  ...  "
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" ...  Best external hard drive connector I have used.  ...  "
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" ...  The drive did have some bad sectors but I was able to run a recovery to get the data cloned to a newer drive.  ...  "
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" ...  Needed an ancient file off of an old ATAPI ZIP Drive, and this adapter instantly converted it to a USB drive!  ...  "
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" ...  perfece for setting up external drives.  ...  "
Memory
 15
old hard drives, files, data, retrieve, hard drives
+93%
-7%
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" ...  Works fine, no problems on Win 10, recognized drive(s) within minute or so  ...  "
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" ...  It works for me on duplicating an small old drive for a larger one.  ...  "
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" ...  I just brought home a old hard drive from my parents place. ... The hard drive brought back some good old memory.  ...  "
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" ...  Worked great on modern and older hard drives.  ...  "
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" ...  Afterwards, I was able to recognize both of my HDDs, 160GB and 200GB Seagate.  ...  "
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" ...  The drive did have some bad sectors but I was able to run a recovery to get the data cloned to a newer drive.  ...  "
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" ...  did exactly as described, allowed me to fetch old data off of VERY old HDD hard drives  ...  "
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" ...  This devise makes it a snap to plug in old drive and search for files.  ...  "
Ports
 12
drives, sata, hard drive, adapter, works
+83%
-17%
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" ...  Able to connect sata and ide drives.  ...  "
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" ...  Great IDE to USB cables for old hard drive.  ...  "
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" ...  I just needed to make sure that on my old IDE HDDs that I change the jumper from Cable Select to Master.  ...  "
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" ...  Worked perfectly for me to access files off a SATA hard drive I had in a Dell Optiplex 760 PC.  ...  "
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" ...  Best external hard drive connector I have used.  ...  "
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" ...  Works great on old IDE and SATA drives  ...  "
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" ...  This adapter works perfectly. ... It connects to the computer via the included USB cable and the adapter end connects to the HD (either IDE or SATA).  ...  "
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" ...  Used it for data recovery/migration purposes, supports IDE/EIDE/SATA drives.  ...  "
Device Compatibility
 12
ide, hard drive, drive, data, recognized
+75%
-25%
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" ...  Nice safety switch to protect devices  ...  "
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" ...  I am only writing this review now because I just used it to help a friend whose laptop crashed and she thought she lost all her files forever.  ...  "
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" ...  Works fine, no problems on Win 10, recognized drive(s) within minute or so  ...  "
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" ...  no issues, plug and play on a mac  ...  "
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" ...  (Even though it's for Win 7, it also works for Win 10.)  ...  "
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" ...  If you have old computers that you don't want to throw out because there MIGHT be something on the hard drive, you can use this to pull all of your personal files from them.  ...  "
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" ...  If your computer dies you can remove the hard disk and use this to copy valuable data to another computer.  ...  "
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" ...  As long as your hard drive is still operating correctly, this device is perfect for transferring the data off it onto a new computer.  ...  "
Product Reliability
 11
data, works, worked as advertised, recover, hard drives
+91%
-9%
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" ...  I got this in 2013 and its saved me so much pain over the years.  ...  "
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" ...  Worked great out of the box.  ...  "
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" ...  Worked as advertised!!  ...  "
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" ...  I used this to recover data from a drive that hadn't been powered in at least 7 years. ... Had no problem hooking it up & worked as expected.  ...  "
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" ...  Wish I had these a long time ago.  ...  "
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" ...  Had both types and the connectors worked as advertised.  ...  "
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" ...  Will be buying another if this one ever fails, which it shows no sign of doing.  ...  "
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" ...  Works great, no issues  ...  "

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Specifications

Connectivity
USB:  Yes 
Number of USB ports:  2 
Yes
USB
2
NUMBER OF USB PORTS