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This is a simple good product. It converts a 44-pin (laptop hard drive) to a regular IDE. CablesOnline shipped the order so fast. If you have any questions they are very knowledgeable and eager to help.
Did not fit due to poor constuction. I would not recommend this product to anyone.
The pins fell out of the plastic housing after one use. Turns out more than this product offers. The real problem is with the power adapter and jumper settings. Also, the supplied power dongle is pure junk. (ps - I don't recommend doing this, you'll need to be very careful)I'd be more unhappy if it hadn't been so darn inexpensive. First I've found that this thing only works as advertised in some jumper settings.
I've pulled all the plastic off the power dongle and bent the contacts to get it to fit in tight spaces. About the best thing I can say is under ideal conditions it's able to do what it claims to do. None of these are real deal breakers. That's a limitation on its usefulness.The bigger problem is clearance for the power connector. Often times I don't have room for it in a huge mix of adapters or a tight fit. When it works, it works, when it doesn't work I find something else.
I have had difficulty in the past with external hard drive enclosures for laptop drives that I took out of laptops. This one works great, it also has the added benefit of a power cord so you can access hard drives that are require a power source separate from the USB. I'm happy with my purchase and was able to salvage some old hard drives from broken computers. I would recommend this to a friend.
I bought a laptop HDD to IDE converter. I got what I paid for, the terminal connectors did not survive and I had to directly wire it to the power supply.
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