Pros: Worked as needed, great buy!

Cons: None, zero, zip, nada!

Reviewer's tech knowledge: Reviewer's ownership: 1 day - 1 week

Pros: I had a Maxtor One Touch lll External Storage Device that had many years of photos and files stored on it that were important to me. They were information that I could not afford to lose. I took the Maxtor apart and removed the Seagate Hard Drive I connected the C2G Adapter (30504) to this hard drive and to my laptop. I was able to salvage everything that was on the hard drive. I was very happy that it worked as well as it did. GREAT PRODUCT!!

Cons: None

Bottom Line: I was very happy because it would have cost about $600.00 to have a pro do it.

Reviewer's tech knowledge: Average Reviewer's ownership: 1 day - 1 week

Pros: Swiss Army knife of disk transfers.

Cons: Inconsistent writes on 1TB HST 2.5 inch drive

Bottom Line: I used this cable adapter many times in the past to copy whole drives or just a partition, either with Windows, or with Gparted-live. It has worked great until I tried it with a 1TB drive. It all looked fine in Gparted, but when I installed the drive in my laptop, the partitions were all trash. I tried using Gparted again, using a newer USB 3.0 enclosure, and that worked OK. I am guessing that either the adapter has problems with larger drives or with 6 GB/sec drives.

Reviewer's tech knowledge: High Reviewer's ownership: more than 1 year

Pros: When it works it is great. Don' count on the power switch.

Cons: Every things works until you use the power sliding switch. First couple of times I use it i had no problems. Now when you slide the switch to on and let go it will turn the power off. You must keep messing with the switch to get it to hold. Some times it will stay on until you let go of the switch and then it goes off. JUNK

Reviewer's tech knowledge: Somewhat High Reviewer's ownership: more than 1 year

Pros: Easy to use, supports several drive types with a minimum of cables. The power switch is a nice touch.

Cons: Either the adapter does not handle SATA 3 drives correctly, or the 500 GB limit is a little fuzzy -- when I attach a known-good 500 GB SATA 3 drive my computer sees garbled information about the drive, different each time.

I spent a good long while trying to use this adapter with a 3 TB SATA 3 drive before I discovered this limitation.

Reviewer's tech knowledge: Somewhat High Reviewer's ownership: more than 1 year

Pros: Everything you need is included, power adapters, USB connector, and drive connectors for 2.5" laptop and 5" Desktop drives..
Didn't need to install any software drivers at all; the controlling computer's USB sees the adapter as an ATA/ATAPI Bridge.
The separate power supply has a green continuity (plugged in indicator) LED then on the output side there is a small inline switch in the cord which then passes power to the drive.
That switch also has a small green LED to indicate power is being sent to the drive.
Finally there is a blue activity light inside the drive connector, so all functions are well documented as you use the device.
All the cables seem to be heavy duty and substantial, as is the power supply. The power supply is situated several feet from the 110v. plug so you're not stuck with another wall wart taking up more space on a power strip or outlet.

This really seems to be a well made, thoughtfully designed setup. Really is just plug and play, no problems encountered when used with Windows XP, Win 7 Pro and Win 8.1.

Cons: Not really a "con", the whole assemblage of power supply, adapters and drive sockets is a bit bulky, but certainly nothing a typical briefcase couldn't handle easily.

Bottom Line: Just the thing for rescuing data off of non-functioning laptop computers or those old ATA drives from the pre-SATA days.
The "recycled" drives can provide you with some removable backup space and securely stored in your fire safe or other remote secure location. Well worth the low price- I wish I'd gotten one of these sooner.

Reviewer's tech knowledge: Somewhat High Reviewer's ownership: 1 week - 1 month

Pros: Able to access an old IDE drive to remove some photos. Worked like a charm

Cons: None

Reviewer's tech knowledge: Average Reviewer's ownership: 1 day - 1 week

Pros: Got here fast!

Cons: Will not work connected to old IDE drive. powered drive with included cable. Still no functionality Manufacturer site provides ZERO information or software other than a WIN 98 driver. going to try the SATA interface but USB 2.0 and 3.0 are a no go on this drive.

Bottom Line: GRRRR

Reviewer's tech knowledge: Somewhat High Reviewer's ownership: less than 1 day

Pros: Simple, easy to use, and it worked great to get data off of an old HD. I had previously bought a hard drive enclosure to try to retrieve this data but I could not get it to work. Wrong OS, wrong jumper settings, or something, tried it on two computers. So I had worries that perhaps this drive was shot and my data was lost. Happily, this worked. It has a light that comes on for power and a light that comes on that shows drive connectivity to the USB port. The cables fit in a small box, easy to keep in a drawer for future use.

Cons: None.

Reviewer's tech knowledge: Somewhat High Reviewer's ownership: more than 1 year

Pros: It works and does what it should. Easy to use.

Cons: It would be nice if it were USB 3.0, but the product still functions just fine as a 2.0

Reviewer's tech knowledge: Somewhat High Reviewer's ownership: 1 month - 1 year