Posts Tagged ‘usb to ide’

Posts Tagged ‘usb to ide’

USB 2.0 to IDE & SATA Cable Kit

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Best Seller 2009;USBNow’s Best Selling Item of 2009!

We’re running a special offer for one week only. This particular product is a USB 2.0 to IDE & SATA Cable Kit. Hugely popular and immensely easy to use and operate. Ideal for quick and efficient use of an internal IDE or SATA hard drive.

WAS £22.95, THEN £18.95.. NOW £15.95 for a limited time!

The USB to SATA and IDE Kit Includes an eSATA to SATA cable (Type I – Type L) and a Power Supply unit for the hard drives.

The USB to IDE/SATA Kit allows you to transfer files from computer or notebook easily and with no fuss, back up files, or store large file archives on hard drives. Its perfect for techies or anyone that needs access to a hard drive, or a fast way to add another SATA or IDE device. The hi-speed USB 2.0 interface provides an almost universal connection for any Windows or Macintosh workstation. The adapter supports all existing Serial ATA SATA drives or IDE drives. Its fine for 2.5″ Hard Disks (laptop sized HDD’s) or 3.5″ Hard Disks (typically found in desktop PC’s or towers).

Get one, here.

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Recovering data from an IDE Hard Drive or SATA Hard Drive

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

If you’re looking to recover or transfer data  from/ or to an old IDE Hard Drive or SATA Hard Drive (or for that matter a new Hard Drive) then there are a number of options available to you and all of them are pretty easy to use:

For ease you can think about the options in 3 separate groups:

  1. Disk Drive Enclosures (also know as Drive Caddy’s)

    These are excellent because not only do they offer physical protection to the Hard Drive that’s installed in the enclosure but they really do breath new life into any old Hard Drive that you might use in them (you can of course use new Hard Disk Drives as well). The smaller HDD enclosures typically come with a protective wallet, which makes them ideal to take with you as a portable back up.

    All Hard Drive enclosures come with leads to connect the caddy to the PC and some will offer multiple connection options e.g. USB, Firewire and increasingly eSATA.

    The only real downside of the Hard Disk Enclosures is that they are not designed for “popping” hard drives in and out quickly. With HDD enclosures the HDD is held in place with screws and typically the enclosure is screwed together.  So, if you’re an engineer or you test lots of different hard drives then the cable or docking station options might be a better bet.

  2. Disk Drive Docking Stations:

    Hard Disk Drive Docking Stations are relatively new to the market but they have proven an instant hit with technicians and engineers alike. They’re popular because if you have lots of Hard Disk Drives that you need to test/check or that you want to recover data from then a docking station is quick to use. The Hard Drives simply “push in” to the docking station, no screws or connections to mess with and as a result in a matter of seconds you can be backing up or recovering data or just checking the that Hard Drives work.

  3. USB to IDE & SATA HDD Cable Kits:

    The most popular product for recovering data from Had Disks drives is a universal USB to IDE/SATA Cable Kit. This kit is supplied with all of the cables and a Power supply unit to enable you to connect pretty much any Hard Drive to a PC via USB 2.0. The kit support hard drives from Laptops (2.5″ HDD’s) and hard drives from Desktops (3.5″ HDD) and it will support both common types of hard drives; IDE/ATA and the newer standard SATA (Serial-ATA) Additionally these kits work on all the obvious operating systems including VISTA.

A few things to remember when using these Hard Drive enclosures, docking stations and USB cable kits:

  • If you are using a 3.5” IDE  HDD then the Hard Drive will need to be set to “master” on the jumper settings.
  • The HDD ideally needs to be formatted to NTSF or FAT32 and with data already pre-loaded (New HDD’s will need to be formatted and allocated before use)
  • Connect the power supply before you connect the other cables

Finally connect to PC…on some occasions it might be necessary to re-boot

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USB to IDE and SATA Kit is the Product of the Year in 2009

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Even with just a few weeks of 2009 left to run its pretty obvious already that our top selling product of 2009 is going to be the USB to IDE and SATA Cable Kit. This incredibly handy and popular piece of kit allows you to read/write to pretty much any hard disk drive going. It matters not if the Hard Disk is from a laptop, a desktop or whether its an IDE, SATA, PATA or ATA hard drive because the USB to IDE/SATA cable kit supports them all.

USB to IDE and SATA Kit

USB to IDE and SATA Kit

The kit has been flying off the shelves and is now a critical component of many an IT engineers armoury. But, don’t think you need to be a professional IT guru to use and take advantange of this product. Its incredibly easy to use, it comes with all the cables you need to connect to the hard disks drives and it includes a UK power supply unit as well.

Whether you’re looking to recover data from a salvaged hard disk drive or just to “test” a variety of hard drives you’ve found lying around this cable kit is invaluable. Its currently on sale at £18.95 and has helped a wide range of customer in desperate need of recovering data they thought they’d lost.

Here are just a few comments from customers who have purchased the VE328/VE225 USB to IDE and SATA Adapter kit:

“This is a great product got info off my old laptop which has no power due to a loose connection on the motherboard and also got files off a Compaq prosario 5030 very easy and straight forward (hot swappable)”

“Took the HD out of the failed Maxtor External Drive box, Hooked it up and ‘Hey Presto’ recovered all my early Digital Family Photo’s etc. I thought I’d lost. Much cheaper than a data recovery service and not too difficult to use if your machine is out of waranty and you don’t mind taking things apart. I didn’t get all my files back due to some corruption (which is almost inevitable with a drive failure) but by far the majority. Wish I’d bought it a year ago.”

“Easy to use and versatile. Performs well and excellent value.”

There are loads of other positive comments on our site but if you are looking for something to recover data from a Hard Disk Drive then we’d strongly recommend buying one of these.

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Great Customer Response to our USB to IDE and SATA Adapter

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Our incredibly handy and easy to use USB to IDE and SATA adapter continues to get a great response from customers. Of course if your PC has just crashed and you need to recover data from the Hard Disk Drive in the PC its understandable that you’re going to be thankful of a solution, particularly one that is relatively inexpensive and supports all types and sizes of hard disk drive.

Here’s some actual customer comments on the USB to IDE and SATA cable Kit (Product number: 52 and model VE328)

  • “excellent excellent excellent he best thing i have bought”
  • “Fantastic product, laptop video card errors rendered it unusable and needed urgent access to data on the SATA hard drive. Easy to use and highly recommended. :-) ”
  • “Works well on 2 of my old drives, 2 which are *really* old dont respond, but very pleased overall. Allowed my laptop to clean a multiple virus infection on a friends drive!”
  • “Took the HD out of the failed Maxtor External Drive box, Hooked it up and ‘Hey Presto’ recovered all my early Digital Family Photo’s etc. I thought I’d lost. Much cheaper than a data recovery service and not too difficult to use if your machine is out of waranty and you don’t mind taking things apart. I didn’t get all my files back due to some corruption (which is almost inevitable with a drive failure) but by far the majority. Wish I’d bought it a year ago.”

If you do need to recover data from a hard disk drive then this adapter kit is what you need.

USB 2.0 IDE & SATA Cable (with Power Supply) USB 2.0 IDE & SATA Cable (with Power Supply)

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