USB is a glorious thing. It allows you to hook up a wide variety of products ranging from temperature monitoring equipment to keyboards and mice to headphones to drives and far beyond. Today I’m ...

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 ...

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 ...

They say, no one likes a know-it-all, but what about a do-it-all? - As enthusiasts we have a lot of toys and many of these devices store data on different forms of flash media. To add insult to injury ...

Here’s an adapter that makes any SATA or IDE disk function as a backup unit, and with its included PCClone EX Lite software it can back up your hard drive with the simple push of a button. This ...

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 ...

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The DriveWire universal hard-drive adapter provides a USB connection to 2.5- or 3.5-in. IDE (integrated-drive-electronics) or SATA (serial-advanced-technology-attachment) drives. The adapter comes ...

What's the opposite of 'Enclosure'? What's the opposite of an enclosure? Seems there isn't a direct antonym for the word, following an exhaustive search of the net (well, after two queries I was ...