I also use Inateck's SATA docking station and it is fast and works reliably. I bought this product for the IDE adapter (here's it's long amazon name: "Inateck Universal USB 3.0 to IDE/ SATA Converter Hard Drive Adapter with Power Switch for 2.5"/3.5"SATA HDD/SSD & IDE HDD Drives Optical Drive, Support 6TB, Include 12V 2A Power Adapter and USB 3.0 Cable").
I love that it has a power switch, so I can connect everything up then turn on power.
Tested this with 3x IDE desktop 3.5" hard drives (HDD) and 1x IDE CD-Rom/writer optical drive. All worked (except 1 HDD but I think it itself is broken--that HDD didnt work with any other adapters I tried either). With the CD-Rom drive, it could play and write, and open the door via eject windows menu click. However, it could not do advanced operations from professional audio program Pro Tools, but most people won't experience that.
As other reviewers have said, the 4-pin-to-molex power cable is very short. For my drives (3.5" desktop) that's all that was needed, cuz it was a very short distance from the adapter power to the hdd power.
BUT BE CAREFUL: REMOVING the 4-pin power cable connector from this adapter was HARD. It has a plastic locking mechanism that's really deep. Had to pry the plastic down with a small flat-head screw driver to unlatch it (of course, without letting the screw driver slip and jam right into the body of the adapter). I've done it several times now, but it's still challenging. Suggestion: study this locking mechanism before you insert it so you'll know what you're doing when you try to remove it.
Note, you dont actually have to remove the power cable if you dont want to. I store this in the box it came in, and so it wont fit unless the cable is removed. But apart from that reason, I would not have to remove it.
Removing the molex side of this cable was easy. It's a tight fit, but it can be wiggled out with just fingers.
The USB cable and power (to the wall plug) cables are not that long, maybe 3 feet. That means it's hard to find a spot that close enough to the PC to reach the USB port and close enough to power outlet to plug it in. If your PC is on the floor and you have an outlet or power strip near by, as I did the first time I used it--it works. If your PC is on the desk, and the power is on the floor, as I had my second time, it wont reach. I put the disk and adapter on the desk, and had to plug the adapter's power wall wart into an extension cord to reach.
BTW I completely ignored the backup software and the CD that came with this device. I would not trust it (altho I trust Inateck). No drivers were needed for my Windows 7 Pro PC.
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| USB 3.0 to ide/sata adapter UA2001 | USB 3.2 to dual sata adapter UAA2022 | USB 3.2 to dual sata adapter UAA2023 | USB 3.0 to ide/sata adapter SA03001 | |
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| USB Protocol | USB 3.0 | USB 3.2 Gen 2 | USB 3.2 Gen 2 | USB 3.0 |
| Supported IDE Interface | 2.5"/3.5" | X | X | 2.5"/3.5" |
| Supported SATA Interface | 2.5"/3.5" | 2.5"/3.5" | 2.5" | 2.5"/3.5" |
| Power Adapter | 12V/2A | 12V/3A | X | 12V/2A |
| Transfer Speed | 5Gbps | 6Gbps | 6Gbps | 5Gbps |
| Support Clone Function | X | Online Clone | Online Clone | X |
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The small volumes look like disk drivers with a back up of each type
Inateck USB 3.0 to IDE/SATA Converter mounted both logical volumes from an Apple 20 GB fireball hard disk last opened in 2006 on a OS X 10.12..4 MacBook Air (11-inch, Early 2015). One Volume was formatted in OS X and the other in MacOS9.2.1. See screen shots of Yellow colored Had Disk Icons. At that time you might decide to boot the Mac in MacOS9.2.1 to run some applications that didn't do well running in emulation mode under OS X.I the USB bus it shows up in the Apple Menu/About This Mac/ system report / in the USB 3.0 tree as several different volumes. See screen shot of system report with the USB 3.0 tree selected. The small volumes look like disk drivers with a back up of each type. I tried for most of a weekend to get a Sabrent USB-DSC9 USB 3.0 TO SATA/IDE to work and finally gave up and ordered the Inateck USB 3.0 to IDE/SATA Converter. Sent the Sabrent USB-DSC9 back under Amazon Prime home US mail pickup. At least that part of the experience was easy.
