USB 2.0 to IDE 2.5″ Hard Disk Drive HDD Aluminum External Case Enclosure 500GB Max Capacity
- New Ultra Slim Aluminum External Hard Drive Case
- Support 2.5″ IDE Hard Drives 40~500GB
- Fast Data/File Access and Transfer Rate up to 480MB/s
- USB 2.0 to IDE
- Compatible with IDE hard drives, not SATA (see below)
Product Description
View, copy, and edit image, video, music, data, and files directly. Ideally for data backup. Supports MAC OS 8.6 or above. Supports MS Windows Vista/XP/2000. Fully Plug & Play and hot swappable. Software Driver Download needed for Windows ME/982nd. Power supplied by 2 Computer USB Ports (No External Power Cable Required). LED Power Indicator. Dimensions: 4.5″x2.5″x0.43″ Light Weight: 2.2 Oz. Simple and Quick Assembly.
IDE is also called EIDE, PATA, or ATA.
To determine if your hard drive is an IDE drive or a SATA drive, please look for the connectors. An IDE connector is longer, and has two rows of pins that stick out.
A SATA connector is smaller and has two plastic tabs with flat metal contacts…. More >>
USB 2.0 to IDE 2.5″ Hard Disk Drive HDD Aluminum External Case Enclosure 500GB Max Capacity
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5 comments
Charles H. Macmullin Jr. on January 17, 2010 at 10:08 pm
That warn out lap top now has a new live as an external hard drive. I love it.
Stonesand on January 17, 2010 at 11:00 pm
This drive enclosure arrived broken. It looks like the USB cable that plugs into the enclosure had been inserted and then removed: when it was removed, it broke and carried with it the plastic guide that goes inside the USB jack that keys the plug to only go in one way: that plastic guide is still in the USB plug.
Incredibly cheap plastic, busted on arrival. Since HottestDealsEver won’t refund shipping, it costs more to ship back than I’d get in a refund.
Ryan Galvan on January 18, 2010 at 1:59 am
Just received the case in the mail. It took about 2 minutes to install the HDD. Plugged it in and it was instantly recognized with just one USB port plugged in. Only thing I would like to have had was a mini-B to A style connection, they are far more common, and I didn’t need the extra USB for power.
Jacob Fogg on January 18, 2010 at 4:10 am
Remember that old laptop that doesn’t keep a charge and is as slow as your grandma walking up the stairs? With this product, you can pull out your harddrive, toss it into this enclosure, and for about $[...] bucks you have a portable harddrive that could have cost you several hundred! There aren’t any amazing features with this enclosure… but IT WORKS! No drivers needed on modern computers… just PLUG it in!
Adam Nelson on January 18, 2010 at 5:57 am
I plugged an old laptop hard drive into this device, and then plugged the device into my desktop PC. Instantly, my secondary hard drive in the desktop that I used for backups disappeared from Windows Explorer. Then my desktop crashed completely. Then it wouldn’t boot back into Windows. Safe mode attempts stalled at giveio.sys. After taking my PC into my office, my IT guy said he’d never seen two hard drives completely beyond repair as my two desktop hard drives. So needless to say, plugging this device in to a working PC ruined my main and secondary hard drives, erasing years of pictures, music, and other documents (my fault for only having one backup). To boot, once I took the old laptop hard drive into work, the IT guy had a device similar to this (but a different manufacturer) that brought it up fine, with no problems. This was not my best purchase from Amazon, to say the least.