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  apoaledes

  2024-08-30

  It doesn't recognize the IDE and sometimes sees the SATA and sometimes not. Also, while the specifications and even the packaging show that the device is equipped with SD ports, they are not there! (see photo)

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  ΚΕΚΙΤΖΟΓΛΟΥ ΠΕΤΡΟΣ

  2024-05-21

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  It works fine, it is recommended, do not use its own power supply as it will eventually burn it.

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  boofy

  2024-04-09

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  If you have old IDE disks and want to copy them, this is your tool. Don't expect crazy speeds, but for what it offers, it is excellent.
  The only downside is that IDEs don't dock easily. You struggle a bit until you find the right position.

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  1 out of 1 members found this review helpful

  lordbound

  2024-04-08

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  FAR AWAY!!!! It burned 2 hard drives while at the beginning they were reading fine, started copying and probably due to the power supply burned them .... Very poor construction quality anyway in my case of bad luck ..... I got a Logilink and found my peace, but not the 2 hard drives it broke!

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  5 out of 5 members found this review helpful

  John_Andronis

  2024-03-01

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  Concerned about how to rate it...
  Mine came in excellent condition and it didn't even seem plasticky.
  Its power supply was actually bigger than many more expensive disk docks (12v - 3amp).
  However, it did not have slots for SD and USB.
  Now as a disk dock.
  Slow!!! 40mb/s on a 2.5 SATA HDD, while with a simple USB3 disk enclosure and without power supply, I was getting speeds of 75-80 mb/s.
  Even if you put an SSD on it, you will only get 40mb/s.
  Out of the 4 3.5 IDEs I tried, it read one, failed on another, and I couldn't get the other 2 to work no matter how much I played with the movable 4-pin molex.
  I felt like I would break it if I pressed harder.
  With the SATA and 2.5 IDEs, I had success rates around 75%.
  Also, don't think that just because it recognizes them, you can freely read them and retrieve your data if they are old.
  Most of the times it needed formatting for disks that hadn't been opened for 10-15 years, Windows 95-98.
  Afterwards, they worked fine but you couldn't save any data, so it was useless for that.
  In the end, I found a use for it and that saved its rating. The Raspberry Pi sees it as a USB, so I have it on top of the Raspberry, which is always open as a NAS disk with whichever disk I have on it. In such use, its speed is higher than that of the network (as shown in photo 2), so it's okay.
  The 3 stars have been given very flexibly since this phase is completely hit and miss.

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  7 out of 7 members found this review helpful

  Photofx

  2023-12-14

  But it shows in the photo, the product does not have the card reader.

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  George Tsamp

  2023-12-03

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  Very convenient docking for disks. I use it to test various disks if they work, but it also does more. The build quality is decent, but that doesn't matter much. Good.

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  2 out of 2 members found this review helpful

  th.karachalios

  2023-09-13

  Verified purchase from Ideahellas

  Very good for its price. I bought it to retrieve data from old IDE hard drives. It worked perfectly without any issues. If someone wants to use it with fast SATA drives, it's better to get one with USB3.

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  1 out of 1 members found this review helpful

  tony_nefos

  2023-06-21

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  Just received it, no installation needed! I have 8 old hard drives and it recognized them instantly! Perfect! Will update after some time of usage!

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  5 out of 5 members found this review helpful

  alexander_rog

  2022-05-23

  After cleaning many old computers, I had about twenty hard drives and I didn't know how to read them to see what's inside. I bought this specifically because it supports IDE, which is the old technology for hard drives before SATA. It read all the old and new hard drives, IDE, ATA, SATA, SATA2, etc., immediately without any problems. I just want to note that in case you want to use IDE, the power connection point on the hard drive moves because not all hard drives are the same. Don't think that the hard drive doesn't fit, you just need to move the power connection point. It directly fits SATA hard drives. I haven't tried anything else, like cards or data transfer, for now. For reading many old and new drives, I easily give it 5 stars.

  P.S. I installed it on Windows 7 and it worked immediately without doing anything at all. No drivers or anything.

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  6 out of 6 members found this review helpful

  tassos1974

  2022-02-10

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  For those who have many old forgotten hard drives inside cabinets and want to do a cleanup, they will definitely need a similar product.
  This specific one is widely available and does exactly what it promises.
  The installation is very easy and no special drivers are needed to connect it to Windows. I didn't connect it to Mac so I don't know. All the drives I put on it were recognized and could be read correctly. So the basic function is fulfilled! From there, if someone wants to simply copy old files (like photos for example), it's easy. If someone wants to clone an old HDD to an SSD, this product recommends downloading PC CLONE EX, which can be found with a simple internet search. Of course, I don't think there is a problem using any other cloning software out there. (PC CLONE EX does some "tricks" during installation).
  The build quality is nothing special (simple plastic) but the application of the drives is very easy and there is no problem with inserting and removing them.
  The real quality of a product, however, besides doing what it promises (it does!), is its lifespan.
  This is not immediately apparent, but if something arises in a short period of time, I will update the evaluation!
  5 stars from me. It does what it promises and has a very good price!

  Edit: It was tested with different software than the one recommended and two clones were made without any problem. Excellent!

  Edit2: It really saved me! AND it works perfectly with Mac OS. It was tested on all versions from Snow Leopard to Monterey. All the old drives I had with their operating systems loaded perfectly and I was able to clean up the files I wanted.

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  2 out of 2 members found this review helpful

  Maria_Goula92

  2021-08-07

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  For the disk that I wanted (3.5), it does its job just fine. The laptop installed itself in a few seconds, without drivers, etc. I haven't tried a USB stick or card.

  The negative thing is that the cables are very short and you have to have the computer and the other one stuck together. Also, the disk seems to wobble. It needs something to fill the gap to stay upright.

  Also, the cheap quality of the materials is negative. My power supply arrived broken. I fixed it with some tape, it works, but I would prefer it hadn't arrived like that.

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  Howellpm

  2021-03-29

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  The discs do not fit easily. Many disk units are not recognized by the computer [Linux win7 and win10]

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  25 out of 26 members found this review helpful

  ted.zark

  2021-03-26

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  The machine is excellent and there are also YouTube videos showing it working properly. Apart from the "plastic" aspect of the case, which makes it look cheap, but doesn't bother me because it has exceeded my expectations, I was incredibly disappointed by the fact that it does not come with a CD or USB stick with drivers and you have to find them yourself. Even the store where I bought it didn't help me, they just told me to search on the internet (as if I didn't know how to do that in the worst case scenario).

  So, to save you the trouble, in this specific model (875_OTB) you can download the drivers in a zip file from the address www.motbsid.com. However, for some reason, the zip files don't work, so I found the following link http://www.onsite-computers.co.uk/all-in-1-docking-station-drivers.html and the file is called 875_875c_875d_875u3_876u3_890u3_885_otb.rar, which contains the PCCloneEX program for tasks with this particular device, which you can also find here in a more complete version http://www.gotofnet.com/ANSI/link.php?filename=download/Tools/PCClone/index.htm (although there is also an unlocked version on torrents) ;-)

  Also, be careful with the pins on the cards (SD, etc.) because some of them need to be inserted upside down to be read!!!

  Happy cloning! lol

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  0 out of 1 members found this review helpful

  Atilla_Piskioul

  2020-05-10

  No matter how many hard drives I tried, it would recognize them at first and then disconnect within seconds, one after the other. I did not try it with SD cards.

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  5 out of 9 members found this review helpful

  Gama_Race

  2019-03-13

  The hard drives, no matter what size or type I tried, never worked. They would spin, but the computer never recognized them. The cards, on the other hand, worked perfectly. Nothing else.

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  1 out of 2 members found this review helpful

  psarasemmanouil

  2018-12-05

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  Although it is a bit difficult to connect a hard Parallel port (not that I didn't expect it), it has not shown any problems so everything is fine.

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  2 out of 2 members found this review helpful

  Kostas_Ziras

  2018-03-19

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  Easy installation. I have connected two disks, two USB sticks, and an SD card simultaneously, and everything works perfectly

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  xrpapad

  2025-01-28

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  I was very satisfied

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  sargiris

  2024-06-14

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  No matter which disc I tried to insert, it didn't work

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  DEPALMIR

  2024-03-12

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  Simple and user-friendly!

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  gmpletas

  2023-02-14

  Verified purchase from Ideahellas

  Excellent machine

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  Spiros_kom

  2023-01-21

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  It does exactly what it says

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  kalahanjohn

  2023-01-11

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  Perfect, it doesn't present any problems.

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  0 out of 1 members found this review helpful

  dufraisne

  2022-06-04

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  It doesn't detect any hard drive, it doesn't do anything

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  Dimitris_Vasilikopoulos

  2022-05-24

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  Very good, I recommend it

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  Costas G Selianitis

  2022-03-29

  Verified purchase from Ideahellas

  Excellent.
  It does everything described in its manual

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  Danis Xatziefstratiadis

  2022-01-28

  I have no problem with the device, it works fine without drivers on win10

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  Dimitris_Barikos

  2022-01-16

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  I use it almost every day. It has solved my hands.

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  Kriss_Kriss7740

  2021-11-19

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  The machine is excellent

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