Customer Reviews

Addonics AE5IDECSU2 External Drive Enclosure

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After my desktop computer died, I still needed all the data on my hard drive. It was fairly easy to install my Maxtor hard drive into this product, and now I can use it as an external hard drive. I do wish that the power cord were longer, but that's my only complaint. I can put this hard drive enclosure anywhere, and not even have it laying flat, and it works. It's rather sturdy.

very pleasant buying experience. Came much faster than expected, even though I didn't get express shipment. Product is exactly what I was looking for, works exactly as they said it would. Couldn't have been any easier to put together and hook it up. I have absolutely no negative thing to say about the entire transaction.

I had a 120G IDE drive laying around and bought this unit to turn it into a portable backup device using USB. I had the drive installed in 5 minutes and backed up my two computers same day. With Win XP there are no drivers needed. It behaves just like a memory stick, where XP self-installs the drivers on first use and then assigns a new drive letter to it. So it is not confined to backup use but can serve any storage purpose.

Although I didn't measure the backup times it was plenty fast on both my newer machine (USB 2) and my older one (USB 1). They do give a driver disk for Win 98 though I haven't tried it. All in all a good unit if you have a spare drive collecting dust.

Even though the product specification indicates it will also convert a SATA drive into an external USB drive, that is not the case.
This does not support SATA drives, only IDE drives.

When my pc crashed, I thought all was lost. I knew that the hard drive was still good, so I bought a new computer and ordered this External Drive Enclosure. It arrived within two days. It worked just as I had hoped. I was able to access all of my documents and restore them onto my new computer. It was so easy! Now I have an external drive for backup. I have no complaints, although I wish the USB cable was a little longer. I highly recommend this product.

I used it for 2 weeks with a plextor dvd+-R/RW and it was working well, but then it did not work anymore, the problem was the AC Adapter, I searched for any kind of universal replacement AC adapter and I did not found it anywhere, because it is a special adapter (1700 mA) and the highest I found was 1200 mA but it did not worked.

I sent an e-mail to the company (addonics) asking where to find the adapter, and they did not answered.

I did not recommend this unit.

good way to add more space to your computer (especially your laptop). loving the product