This “hack”: Requires power adapter + home built power dongle + eSATA->SATA drive cable + hard drive which sits exposed to the world. Lots of wires, exposed circuit board on hard drive, etc.

Talk about clever. StarTech’s 35SAT225S3R (available for $60 on Amazon) looks just like a 3.5-inch hard drive, but is actually a two-bay RAID enclosure for 2.5-inch drives. Those drives can be ...

If you need a power adapter for your new hard drive, you will specifically need a "IDE to SATA Serial ATA Hard Drive Power Adapter Cable," which you can purchase at most computer supply stores.

In 2008 SATA was the standard for PC and laptop hard drives and SSDs however we are now moving beyond SATA. Of particular interest are M.2 drives that support the latest NVMe protocol.

Sabrent launches its new USB-C to SATA/IDE 2.5-inch, 3.5-inch, and 5.25-inch HDD adapter, a truly one-stop storage management solution for SATA, IDE drives.

Granite Digital's USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE Bridge Adapter Kit lets field techs, forensic investigators and others attach a raw SATA or IDE hard disk drive to a Mac or PC using USB 2.0.

Sabrent has introduced the USB-DS12, a USB-C to SATA and IDE adapter, designed to facilitate the connection and management of various storage drives. This versatile adapter is compatible with 2.

We’ve already seen a clever way to conveniently adapt eSATA hard drives to USB, and now here’s an even easier and cheaper way to do that from Brando. It’s a $15 adapter, and sure, you’ll ...

If you don't have a motherboard that supports NVME m.2 drives, stick with a SATA drive. An adapter only changes the interface from m.2 to PCIe, your motherboard still has to support NVME to make ...

Make sure that the adapter you buy can connect to the hard drive you want to use. Most hard drives made in the last two decades use SATA connectors while some older drives use PATA .

PhotoFast SATA to USB 3.0 adapter. ... The GBox mini is compatible with both 3.5-inch as well as 2.5-inch hard disk drives or solid state drives and can reach transfer rates of up to 128MB/s when ...