HWShop4U USB/IDE Converter Offers No Power Supply To The Board
- 1. Requiem For Floppy Disk, CD And DVD Storage
- 2. Hard Drive Enclosures
- 3. Icybox IB-355-U: Flashes When Transmitting
- 4. Icybox IB-355-U, Continued
- 5. Icybox IB-350UE-BL: Cool Design With Blue Lighting Effects
- 6. Icybox IB-350UE-BL, Continued
- 7. Icybox IB-350US: Comes With A Fast Serial ATA Converter
- 8. Icybox IB-350US, Continued
- 9. Kingwin's KH-350U Goes Disco
- 10. Kingwin KH-350U, Continued
- 11. Lindy ME-720SI: Serial-ATA Goes External
- 12. Lindy ME-720U2SI: Internal IDE, External S-ATA And USB 2.0
- 13. Lindy ME-720F2U2: Pricey IEEE1394b Enclosure
- 14. Lindy ME-720F2U2, Continued
- 15. MaPower Combo MAP-H31C2: Heavy And Expensive
- 16. MaPower Combo MAP-H31C2, Continued
- 17. MaPower Warps MAP-KC31U2G: Flashy Design
- 18. Sharkoon's Rocketpod: Complicated Assembly
- 19. Sharkoon Rocketpod, Continued
- 20. Vantec Nexstar NST-350UF: Flyweight At 240 G
- 21. Vantec Nexstar NST-350UF, Continued
- 22. Cheap Adapter Solutions For Purists
- 23. ARP Hi-Speed Adapter, Continued
- 24. HWShop4U USB/IDE Converter Offers No Power Supply To The Board
- 25. The Wiebetech Combodock Offers An Aluminum Enclosure With An IEEE1394b Connection
- 26. Wiebetech Combodock, Continued
- 27. Benchmark Results
- 28. Evaluation
- 29. Our Recommendations
- 30. Technical Data
24. HWShop4U USB/IDE Converter Offers No Power Supply To The Board
The cheapest way to link an IDE hard drive via USB must be this converter and dozens of identical no-name products (for example from Addonics). The tests with the HD-Tach benchmark showed that cheap does not have to mean junk. The drawback to this converter is the power supply to the hard drive. You have to set that up yourself. This also means that this solution is only useful in limited areas. This becomes a hopeless challenge especially with notebooks. A normal PC is bound to have a Molex plug free for the drive, but a notebook has no such thing. At 20 MB/s, the data transfer rate is still acceptable. But if you have to take the computer apart in the first place to get power to the hard drive, you may as well use the internal IDE interface. It manages twice that of the USB/IDE converter. And the price is unbeatable at about $13. However, the USB/IDE converter is largely incompatible with ATA devices such as CD or DVD drives.
Small but select. Unfortunately no power supply to the board
Almost invisible
Electricity has to be provided by the computer's power pack
Comparable values with the ARP adapter (click to enlarge)
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