$19.99 USB to IDE Adapter free fedex shipping

[tata]

fixedIt ships with power supply and 2.5' to 3.5' IDE adapter.

 

[T3C]

nice!

 

[VTHodge]

Link goes to "Post Topic" in this forum. Try again?

How did you get it to work, TechITguy?

 

[tishoo]

Yeah - mighty useless link as it stands! No store name mentioned.

Although, honestly, what's the benefit over a USB enclosure (around 20 anyway, with case, power supply, external mounting/portability!)
If you really want more internal IDE hard drives (assuming this adapter lets you use a spare USB port to set up an internal IDE drive), why not buy a nice (RAID capable even) PCI IDE-ATA/133 adapter card and control 4 drives?

 

[wondersteve]

LINKY BROKEN

 

[VTHodge]

Originally posted by: TechITguy
nice!

So is it your hobby to see how many threads you can get the first useless post in?
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[Lemodular]

Originally posted by: VTHodge

Originally posted by: TechITguy
nice!

So is it your hobby to see how many threads you can get the first useless post in?
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LOL...0wned

 

[Beefcake04]

Originally posted by: VTHodge

Originally posted by: TechITguy
nice!

So is it your hobby to see how many threads you can get the first useless post in?
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ROTFL! Busted!

 

[rlgdtime]

New Link

 

[Anghang]

Originally posted by: Beefcake04

Originally posted by: VTHodge

Originally posted by: TechITguy
nice!

So is it your hobby to see how many threads you can get the first useless post in?
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ROTFL! Busted!

^^^ what they said...hahaha...

 

[fbrdphreak]

I got one of these from another HD at a diff website, but the product looks VERY similar. It has worked well for me, only two complaints:
(1) It wouldn't work with a really old 7GB HDD, but did work with a 6GB. Go figure
(2) Standard looking power brick with detacheable power cable, but the end that plugs into the power brick was VERY loose on mine, falls out constantly. Also a longer power cord would have been nice, but the detatcheable side is a standard power cable like what you connect to a desktop PSU so you can replace it easily.

 

[1Cheap2Crazy]

Originally posted by: VTHodge

Originally posted by: TechITguy
nice!

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ouch, lol. good one

 

[kof]

I just bought two of those at the egg.
Worked ok, had to do a reboot and let Windoze see and format the disk.
The prime advantages I see are:
Smaller than a case, easy to travel with.
Comes with the adapter for a laptop hard drive, something I needed anyways.
If you are not going to be lugging it around the world, like I do, a case with firewire could be better.

 

[duragezic]

Pretty cool, and good price!

My friend got a 120GB external Firewire/USB2 drive since he has a Mac laptop. He then got an xbox and ripped the external apart to put the 120gb in the xbox. Then we used my 60gb in the external enclosure (and I got the xbox 10gb for a linux drive, w00t!). Then he ripped apart his old external cd burner and put a hard drive in there. It's just really handy for us cause we both store things on the external and can share them. Not half bad speed using USB2.0 either, even on several GB files it doesn't take more than 5 minutes to do copying.

 

[Aztech]

Thanks, I finally ordered me one. It will come in very handy since I always have computers opened up and drives all over the place.

 

[tami]

i got this for $9.99 on ebay.

 

[cremefilled]

Wow, TechITGuy has 2990 posts! He = 133t! You guys should get off his back.

 

[tata]

Originally posted by: rlgdtime
New Link

Thanks rlgdtime. I forgot to post the it's from chiefvalue. Enjoy it

 

[Jaxidian]

Originally posted by: VTHodge

Originally posted by: TechITguy
nice!

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haha, good catch VTHodge!

pwnt

 

[SRGilbert]

Originally posted by: tishoo
Although, honestly, what's the benefit over a USB enclosure (around 20 anyway, with case, power supply, external mounting/portability!)
If you really want more internal IDE hard drives (assuming this adapter lets you use a spare USB port to set up an internal IDE drive), why not buy a nice (RAID capable even) PCI IDE-ATA/133 adapter card and control 4 drives?

One of these are great if you are a system builder. I've many times where I'd be building a new system for myself or another, and wasn't planning on using the previous hard drive from the old computer, but had lots of data that needed to be transfered over. It's a lot faster and easier than hooking up an internal IDE cable (no power down needed) or installing it in an external enclosure. I've got three or four drives on a shelf that on wierd occasions I'd need something on them that I didn't think I'd need at the time!

I'd never considered using one of these adapters internally! Does anyone do that? It seems like the speed loss, even on USB 2.0 would make that pretty silly.

 

[nealh]

these seems dead..OOS and increased price to $21.49 plus $5 shipping

 

[syadnom]

here is the real advantage.

you can have a large number of drives in your computer (like i do) but only power them up when needed with no reboot!

i run 4 seagate 120GB and 4 Hitachi 250GB drives plus a WD160Gb for the OS and programs. it is really nice to just be able to turn on a drive when i need data and not have to reboot OR run the drives all the time.