Converters for IDE to USB aren't new, but in light of the latest and upcoming motherboards, they're turning into extremly useful techie tools. The average geek has at least one spare hard drive (I ...

I've got a bunch of old 40/44-pin HDDs lying around and finally decided it was time to get the data off of them, so I bought an IDE to USB adapter which works fine for most them, but when I tried it ...

No magic here, just a CS8818 USB 2.0-to-IDE bridge and a power supply. The SATA-to-eSATA interface doesn't require any bridging, although it does need power for the drive. This makes the SATA-to-eSATA ...

Today we’re looking at the Brando USB to SATA/IDE converter. If you’re testing an unknown drive you have to either use a removable drive rack or an external drive enclosure to run the drive without ...

StarTech.com specializes in designing and manufacturing and even selling a number of adapters converting one format to another along with a number of accessories to handle any need you may have. Today ...

There is the power button, and molex power connector, and a SATA data/power connection on top. At the bottom is the standard 3.5″ IDE connection. On the one side we have the cut-down 2.5″ IDE ...

The days of not-so-expensive drive enclosures are over. On Friday, we passed up the opportunity to report on an interesting new adapter from Japanese vendor Evergreen. The “DN-IDE3525″ is an extremely ...

Like Westley in the "Princess Bride" sometimes hard drives are only mostly dead. If you have a drive that appears kaput, you can sometimes retrieve the data off of it using a USB to SATA/IDE connector ...