Sabrent USB-DSC9 USB 3.0 TO SATA/IDE 2.5/3.5/5.25 Inch Hard Drive ConverterThis product exactly as advertised. Contains all items necessary to connect all of the sata-ide hard drives as claimed. Purchased two adapter cables to allay some of the reported problems other reviewers had-described later in this review. Some complained of a weak molex plug in-I simply bought an extension and plugged it in once eliminating that problem. By the way there are only two wires running to the molex not 4 as some reviewers stated as two are all that are required leaving two receptacles empty in the plug again by design. Power supply include works fine. Also bought a male to female ide extension cable to solve the reported clearance problems plugging in which works perfectly. Always change your ide drive jumper to slave if you expect to get the drive to show up as a removable drive(This goes for any device one uses to connect an ide drive externally with an USB plug). I deleted-repartioned-formatted-initalised both an ide and sata drive. Worked flawlessly if you remember to set your ide drive to slave. Always plug the usb connector in last after all other connexions are made and turn on power switch just before plugging in the usb connector allowing drive to spin up. Again product works great.

My current computer crashed, and I had some old college IDE harddrives that I could at least pull some old photos and docs from, so my use case is for IDE drives (not the newer SATA ones. Man I feel old.) I'm not a tech geek, so please excuse any imprecise terminology:

Here are some quick tips:.
1. Power. My power cord had the same "issue" as the other reviewers: only 3 of the four holes appeared to be "live" (i.e. had metal inside), but I gave it a go and plugged it in. My drive wasn't spinning... "A dud!" I thought. Oh wait, there's a power switch on the cord. *Flip* Oh... ok, it works. If your drive isn't spinning, make sure you've turned on the power by flipping the switch
2. Set your jumper. One drive worked like a charm. My computer detected it, everything was fine. But the second one, my computer just couldn't detect it right. Then I remembered a tip on the instructions: Make sure your jumper is set to "master". If you don't know what this means, just google "hard drive master slave", or search for your hard drive model. It's super easy, just need to move a small plastic plug a few pins over. Voila! It worked.
3. Unplug it if restarting your computer. When things weren't working, my computer started to run really slow (maybe unrelated) so I restarted my computer. This caused all sorts of issues, I think b/c my computer thought I wanted to boot from the harddrive? Anyways, if you're restarting your computer, don't leave this thing plugged it. Unplug, then plug it in after your computer is booted up.

Hope this helps!

I would note: My product appeared to be pre-used, as the product box was bulging a bit when it arrived (i.e. probably packed by someone other than the manufacturer.) Didn't mind though and gave the product a try and it worked, with some important caveats. However, I ended up noticing the cord connected to the power switch was torn, exposing the wires underneath, so I've return it and will likely order again and try my luck to see if I can get a new rather than used product. Along the way, had some pit falls that may help others, so I posted the tips above.

My PC was done, multiple failing components and I did not want to put any more time or money into it. One part that was solid however, was my H-L blu-ray, HD-DVD, DVD-RW combo drive. I took it out of the PC case and made it a new home. See the pics! How would I plug it into my laptop though? With a little bit of research I found this Sabrent SATA to USB 3.0 kit (model USB-DSC9). I wasn't sure if it would work with my blu-ray drive as blu-ray is not mentioned in the specs as supported but I purchased it anyway. If it did not work with my blu-ray drive I would need and use it to recover data from my hard drives. I can confirm that it works perfectly and am very happy with the purchase. I will say that at $22.99 this is definitely one of my top purchases on Amazon to date. Why? I was considering buying an external blu-ray drive for just over $100 before I had the idea to salvage this drive. With a little bit of time, an old cigar box and $23, I got the job done. I recommend this kit!

This is just what I needed to copy data from some old IDE HDDs to my current system. Setup was easy and very intuitive. Functionality is great. I just extracted 100GB of data from two old Maxtor HDDs without breaking a sweat. I've always had success with Sabrent products and this is no exception.

I noticed that some reviewers state that setup is unnecessarily complicated. I have to disagree. The IDE data connectors fit perfectly and there is plenty of room for power in the case of the 3.5" drives. Attached is a photo of the setup during data transfer. No overheating, solid connections - excellent. Highly recommended.

Worked as promised to connect a HDD to the USB port on my laptop HOWEVER, I had to do quite a bit of research to actually copy many of my files from a circa 2008 hard drive removed from a deceased desktop PC. (I could see the file names but could not open or copy them-receiving a "you don't have permission" error message every time I tried). Learned that you first must login to your current PC as the administrator (even if you're the only user with admin rights, NOT the same). In Windows 7-10, the admin login is hidden and you have to run a line at the command prompt to activate the admin account (google it). Next you have to download a feature to add "take ownership of" to add a right click menu feature allowing you to transfer ownership of the drive/folder/files "owned" by your previous PC. There are other ways to do that, but I found that method the easiest (Google that too). Once that was done and you've right clicked and taken ownership of the drive and folders you want to copy, you may still need to make sure your current computer account has full "permissions" to the folders/files-use the "Security"- "advanced" tab in file properties to do that. Next use any method to copy the folders and files to your new computer (I just dragged and dropped to the desktop). Since they are now in your admin account, you will still need to drag and drop them once more into your regular user account using file explorer. And viola (after three hours of research and unsuccessful early effort), I had recovered photos, files and documents I thought were lost forever, (without having to pay some geek service exhorbitant amounts to do that for me, with, of course, a complete loss of privacy). Overall, very happy with the product and the price, but I wish it came with more of a how-to guide for the admin-ownership issues.