New Brando USB 2.0 To SATA / IDE Cable With AC Power Adapter

Brando USB 2.0 To SATA / IDE Cable With AC Power Adapter

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• 1 x Brando USB 2.0 To SATA / IDE Cable With AC Power Adapter

The new USB 2.0 to SATA / IDE cable really kicks things up a notch this time around by adding support for Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or SATA hard drives. Not to worry, the cable still works with 3.5 and 2.5 inch IDE hard drives too. And although I'll only be testing this cable with hard drives, it can also be used with CD-ROM and DVD drives.

The main cable looks almost identical to the 2nd version of this product, except that an SATA connector has been added to the top surface.

The included SATA cable snaps into the keyed port easily and securely.

At this point you might be thinking that since this cable has 3 different connection points, that it might be possible to plug in 3 different devices at the same time. Ah, great minds think alike! But alas, 3 at once is not possible. Believe me, I tried. Two at once though, will work as long as it is an IDE and an SATA device. Two IDE devices at one time will not work. Sorry.

The test candidates for this review are shown above. I'll be testing with a 3.5 inch Western Digital Caviar 80gb IDE drive, a 2.5 inch Toshiba 40gb IDE drive and a 3.5 inch Hitachi Deskstar 80gb SATA drive. Let the games begin!

Hooking up a single drive is a simple operation. Connect the SATA or IDE cable to the matching connector on the drive, plug in the power plug into the drive's power port (if one exists), and then plug in the USB cable. That's it. Once all connections are made, the drive should spin up, and then automatically mount as a removable drive on your PC or Mac computer (all my testing was conducted on a 20″ iMac G5).

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