Great little product! I found a stack of old hard drives while cleaning out a closet. I wanted to look through them all to see if there was anything I wanted to salvage before re-formatting and recycling them. This adapter worked like a charm. Only 1 drive gave me some issues, but that drive was starting to fail, it was not the adapter's fault. Highly recommend!

I got this mostly to be able to recover data that was stored on a Western Digital Cloud drive that bit the dust in an electrical storm. I removed the HDD from the burned up unit so I could get access to it. This was a 2 TB drive with all of my documents, photos, and other important data backed up on it. Fortunately, I had piggybacked another external drive to it so had a backup of the backup.

It was very easy to connect the adapter to the my computer with the included USB-A cable. With the wall ward plugged in and connected to the adapter, as soon as I turned the power switch on I could hear the disk spin up. The drive was immediately recognized by my computer in the File Manager. I guess Western Digital uses a special codex to store the data because the file manager showed a fist full of drive letters. Literally every thing from drive A-Z and then from AA-ZZ. No data was recognizable so no data to move.

The adapter allowed me to quickly use the disk manager to delete all of the partitions and get down to a single drive. At that point I connected the drive that I had used to piggy back the data and copied it quickly onto the newly formatted 2 TB drive.

The adapter is small, has ports for almost any drive you can imagine, and allows for fast access to data access or saving.

If you have a stack of drives sitting around and you want to move data around, you connect 3 drives to the adapter, connect it to your computer and move things in any direction you want.

This thing worked perfectly. I had an old laptop that would not power up, removed the hard drive and plugged it in. I was able to view it in minutes. Staples quoted me $270 to recover my documents. $26 on this and I got it all. I highly recommend this device.

Got my files off of a super old hard drive and instructions were clear and easy to follow. Great purchase.

I've done two main things with this device. I've attached two SATA drives and cloned one to the other using the One Touch button. That worked without issue. You have to have the destination drive be the same size or larger. I also connected multiple drives to the device and then connected the device to a PC to use software for more complicated jobs. You can use a free software like Macrium or Easeus Partition, both of which are easy to use and will allow you to copy partitions from a drive to another without copying the whole disk.

If you connect a single SSD (and maybe even a standard mechanical 2.5" disk) to it and connect to a PC, you don't need the power adapter. But if you attach two, you do. If you are doing something time-consuming and resource intensive such as cloning, I would recommend attaching the power cable even if you have only a single drive attached.

The only issue I ever had was when I was trying to upgrade my main PC's Windows 7 installation to Windows 10, and the the program would fail because my PC was losing its connection with the attached SSD. I don't recall if that was due to my corrupted Windows 7 installation or if I had neglected to plug in the power adapter. Either way, I got it resolved and was able to complete the transfer. I had loads of trouble getting this Win7 install to upgrade to Win10, but that had nothing to do with this device.

When I upgraded another Win7 install to Win10, I pulled the drive out of the laptop and did the One Touch cloning. That worked without any issue at all. I plugged the new drive into the laptop and went about upgrading to Win10 (I didn't want to upgrade the old drive to Win10 just in case there were issues during the upgrade process as there were when I upgraded the OS on my desktop). That upgrade went through without any issue.

I had a 3rd laptop running Windows Vista. I wanted to upgrade it to Win7 and then upgrade that to Win10 (you can't go directly from Vista to 10). I ran into two issues, neither of which were related to this device. I ended up using this device quite a bit as I had significant software issues during this upgrade, and I ended up wiping drives and re-cloning multiple times.

If you are going to upgrade from Vista to 7 to either stop there or upgrade further, you need to do one of two things if you don't have an advanced format disk and want to move to an AF disk (like a SSD, though it may be the case that any hard drive made today would be AF). If you are running Vista, chances are you do not have an AF disk, so if you want to freshen up an old PC and upgrade your OS and move to a SSD, you need to either upgrade to Win7 on the current disk before cloning or you need to download and install a couple of hotfixes and potentially some additional software. The hotfixes are KB2470478 and KB2553708. You might also need RST driver 9.6 or higher if you have an Intel SATA controller. If you clone first and try to upgrade to Win7, the install will not go through. If you clone first, you can still install the hotfixes, but you'd then have some extra steps because you won't be able to install a hotfix. It's much easier to install the hotfixes before you clone.

Now back to this device. I've had it for 7 months. It's worked great for cloning but also for simply attaching a drive to it and then accessing that drive on another computer. I don't have any complaints about it in regards to its intended purpose.

The one thing I would say, though, is that I wish they had included a cord, or two cords, to connect a SATA drive in a machine to this device. As it is, you connect the device directly to the drives, no cables involved (other than with the IDE drives and the power connector). I had an SSD in a desktop and had to install it with a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter so that it would sit in the case. This meant that if I wanted to clone that drive, I'd have to remove it from my case. However, if I could connect the device to the drive via cables, that would add flexibility to this. Granted, this is an edge case, and I assume that most people would be using this device because they want to replace one hard drive with another. Still, it'd be nice if I didn't have to attach all of the drives onto the device itself.