IDE Enclosure 2.5 Inch USB 2.0 44PIN IDE/PATA Hard Drive Disk HDD External Enclosure Case with USB 2.0 Cable Tool-Free

This enclosure worked well for what I needed. I have several old laptops that I was wanted to get rid of but needed to check the hard drives for pictures and incriminating evidence (jk). This provided an easy way to connect the old IDE-based drives to my computer and setup the drive to be repurposed. There were really no instructions with this, but come on -- it has a 40 pin connector that matches the hard drive and a USB connector on the other side. It truly should not require instructions. Now, I just used this for short times to move some files and overwrite everything else. I do not know how this would work in a daily, constant-use setting. It may not work as well for your usage, but was exactly what I needed!

Purchased this Zheino IDE HDD Case for an old IDE 2.5 inch HD. It was delivered on time and came with a USB mini cable and the case is constructed of a hard plastic. There is a small computer board that sits inside the case that you can lift out and connect it to the HD then place the whole thing back in the case making sure the light and the USB mini connector lines up with the appropriate holes in the case then snap the lid back on and you're good to go. I used an old USB cable I had laying around and my computer wouldn't recognize my drive. I connected it to other computers with the same results and connected the drive to another device I have just to make sure the drive was good and it was so I emailed Albert at Zheino and he got back to me within a few hours (good customer service) but I had already switched cables with the one that came with it and Voila it worked. The lid on the case is difficult to remove. It has raised areas on all four sides to catch a lip on the sides of the case which keeps the lid secure. Too secure, so I took a knife to the raised areas on both sides and sliced them smooth. The areas on the shorts sides keeps it secure enough and now its much easier to to remove. In summary this is a nice light weight case at a very affordable price that doesn't require any tools to install the HD in it and it's plug and play (as long as you use the right cable, my bad) and I would recommend this case. As a matter of fact I just found another old IDE HD so I'll be ordering another case.

I used this Zheino enclosure to hold an older (IDE/PATA) 2.5" 160 GB disk drive for portable use. Drive installation was a piece of cake. With most of my computers, drive operation was perfect. I have not encountered any corruption of files or the partition table. I have encountered a few quirks: 1) On a Windows 7 machine, Windows PNP didn't find a driver when I first connected the unit. On the second and subsequent connections, Win 7 did find a driver that works fine. Neither a Vista nor a Windows 10 machine had any trouble with PNP. 2) On one Windows 10 laptop, the drive would mount correctly, but would sometimes disappear at a random time during use. The drive has always (so far) reconnected properly when I unplugged the USB and plugged it back in. However, as a data-safety measure, I will not use this drive with the laptop where the intermittent disappearance occurs. 3) Once I snapped the case together, it was difficult to reopen it to remove or replace the hard drive. I was going to test the enclosure with a different drive, but gave up, since this was only a matter of curiosity to me. A great bargain. Unavailable now (10/21), but I hope not discontinued.

An excellent for for the hard drive I had removed from a broken system thus I use this to back up data on my new system.

This worked flawlessly with a 10 year old laptop to retrieve files from a 24 year old hard drive. The case can be bit tricky to open, but that's good because it won't fall apart accidentally.

Simple minimal design. Downside of that is you need a strong USB port to power a non-SSD hard drive, due to no external power supply. I actually just used the small PCB as an adapter access a few older drives. No case needed.

Difficult to fit drive inside

This enclosure is obviously not meant to last for ages, but neither are hard drives. If you have an old IDE/PATA drive that you took out of some obsolete device (mine was from an early Apple TV unit), this enclosure is perfect, especially since it costs less than $10. You're not likely to keep using that drive for anything because it's old and slow, and you'll be lucky if the drive runs for long enough to do that data dump once. So... do what I did, use this enclosure as a one-time thing, then throw out the drive and you'll still have gotten a bargain.

I had an old laptop hard drive - as in, REALLY old - which came from a dead laptop. However it seemed to be the graphics that was the issue because it sounded like it was booting up but I couldn't get anything on screen, even with an external monitor. I wanted to see if I could recover any data off the hard drive. It was the old IDE/PATA interface and I thought the odds were pretty low of finding something that would work, but I stumbled across this. It arrived quickly, took only a couple of minutes to install the drive in the enclosure, I plugged it in via USB and it just worked! I was able to access the files and recover a whole stack of valuable photos and documents that would have been lost forever otherwise. It's only a simple enclosure but it was a reasonable price and worked just like it was meant to, so 5 stars from me.

This external drive enclosure is very simple to use. It snaps open with your thumb nail or probably a small screw driver. There are no screws nuts or bolts to bother with. The 44 pins of your drive are easily located into the small circuit board which has enough play that you can tilt it to identify the required position and orientation of the disk drive. The drive drops into the unit and is held in place because it is very nearly an exact fit. The cover can then be snapped back in place. I bought the unit to transfer data files to an old HP laptop now running Ubuntu from an old Fujitsu 120 gbyte disk formerly used as an XP main drive in the same machine. Once the disk was installed in the enclosure I was able to plug it in using the usb2 cable supplied. and immediately access all files. When I've finished removing data I may reformat the disk and use it for backups. There are no ventilation holes so I don't know if protracted use may cause heat build up but for my use it's ideal I shall probably buy some more.

Il Box è arrivato nei tempi rapidi promessi, e la confezione (curata bene per un oggettino come questo) prevede: il Box esterno, 1 cavo USB e 1 manualetto. L'installazione dell'hard disk è rapidissima e facile, nessun problema di collegamento e di riconoscimento di hard disk al PC. Veramente soddisfatto

Muy fácil de usar y perfectamente compatible para guardar discos duros de laptops con esta entrada

Ich war ja skeptisch. Mein Laptop war defekt und ich hatte die Daten nicht gesichert. Festplatte ausgebaut, in das Gehäuse reingesteckt, USB angeschlossen ... und es läuft einwandfrei. Festplatte erkannt, Daten kopiert und alles erledigt. Besser geht es nicht. Und die Übertragungsrate lag bei bis zu 5 MB/s und sogar darüber. Bin begeistert. Absolute Kaufempfehlung !