Reviews for Sabrent USB-DSC5 USB Data Transfer Cable Adapter for Hard Drive

Excellent Tool

Strengths: Connectivity options. Integrated power. Price.

Weakness: Could use a travel pouch.

This is a great tool to have for anyone that deals with building computers. Very simple way to connect SATA or IDE drive and get data from them. Integrated power is a very nice feature and allows to give power to either type of drive. I tried it with a Western Digital SATA drive and Windows XP and was recognized immediately and worked flawlessly.

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USB IDE/SATA Cable adapter for 2.5

Strengths: One set of cable with Power Adapter good for every needs.

Weakness: None.

This set of cable is very convenient for me and I can move data readily. I am very happy with it. Any body has similar needs got to have it.

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FollowUP:Strengths: Its pretty tiny and does a lot...

Strengths: Its small, self powered and simple to use.

Weakness: Could use an on-off switch and IDE/sata activity LED.

Update, I tried this adapter with a maxtor 80gb hdd. First connect the IDE adapter to the drive. Next, plug in the AC power cord into the power brick. Then, plug in the power connector into the drive. Wait 20 seconds. Finally, plug in the USB cable into your PC. If you can, go DIRECT into a USB 2.0 port ON THE MOTHERBOARD. Do not use front panel USB.

Lastly, I tried this adapter with a 2.5 inch Hitachi 40gig hdd. Drive is set to master. Connected adapter to drive, then plugged in to USB. All I heard was the drive clicking. Drive was not detected by Win XP Pro SP2.

In summary, this will work pretty good with drives that have no problems. One of my drives died and will not be 'detected' as a master, only slave. That drive did not work.

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works as promised.

Strengths: one small device connects 3.5" or 2.5 IDE or 3.5 SATA device to a computer.

Weakness: none really. manual could be a little bit more detailed.

this adapter works just fine. i tested the device with desktop hard drives and laptop drives. manual could be a little bit more detailed. and SATA cable more sturdy.
good device to have

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Does the job

Strengths: Works as its supposed to.

Weakness: None so far.

After reading the first review I tested the SATA transfer. Moved over 20 gig of data on drives with multiple partitions without any errors. Also used the device to recover data off a failing laptop drive. Again it worked nicely.

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SATA not working, IDE good.

Strengths: Portability.

Weakness: SATA portion not working out of the box.

Tried 2 different PCs and 2 different SATA hardrive but still the SATA didn't work(too many errors). IDE portion for 2.5 and 3.5 inch hard drive works fine.

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The little engine that could.

Strengths: Its pretty tiny and does a lot of things.

Weakness: System freezes, hangs explorer.exe, dvd drives do not show up properly or at all.

I am testing this on a custom build system. Win XP Pro sp2, AMD Athlon 2700+, Asus A7V8X-X with 512mb of DDR.

While it successfully wrote data to a 8gig spare hdd, using a secure erase app to kill the data caused a Windows Delayed Write Failed error. Froze My Computer. I unplugged the usb cable and everything went back to normal.

Second test, Lite on DVD writer. That was successful, it shows in My Computer as such. Insert a DVD of Windows SBS 2003, the icon showed up but I was not able to access the files on the DVD.

Third test, on a Dell SX270, connected the Lite on dvd writer, nothing. Zero. Device Manager said there was an error..

Finally, the box says package contains user guide. Wrong, there's a 8cm mini-cd with SATA drivers. No manual at all. No manual on their website.

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Sabrent USB 2.0 cable

Strengths: Very easy to use once you figure it out.

Weakness: No written manual. I wanted to test a laptop hard drive and it had an adapter on it. Pulled it off and it worked fine. All thother drives I have tested worked fine.

Over all for the price and what I wanted it for (testing multiple. drives) this works just great. Keep the drive cool while testing. Works great on cd rom devices also.

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DONT BUY IT

Strengths: NOTHING AT ALL DON'T BUY IT

Weakness: DOES NOT WORK.

I contacted mwave.com's technical support and they could not get it to work with either ide or sata drives. The manufacturer has no available phone number and does not seem to respond to support reque

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Good merchant, bad item

The seller's service is excellent
I got my item only 3 days from the day i placed the order
It's just that the item is not what i really wanted

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