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Some people say it's the ONLY way to get it to work. This is a great deal for the price. My previous enclosure was from MadDog, and it was a bitch to install the drive. Some people say this doesn't work. But a drop of super glue solved that problem. This Sabrent model has a very simple and clever design.
My drive was already on Cable Select, when I took it out of my old enclosure. The thing I liked most, was the ease of drive installation. My guess is, it depends on the particular hard drive people are using. It appears to flimsy at first, but once the drive is in, and the screws are in, it's fine.There are so many differing reviews about how to set the jumper. The instructions say Master. I left it on CS when I put in this one, and it works fine.I was a little disappointed when I opened the box, and discovered that the flimsy stand was broken.
All in all, you can't go wrong with this for a measly (.).
Got my Sabrent ECS-U35K yesterday and proceeded to install a 10-yr old 20GB IDE hard drive with caution based on prior reviews noting various quality and performance issues. Jumper pins were set for "Master" as noted on the scant instruction sheet, and it worked as advertised. I was pleasantly surprised to find no such problems, either due to dumb luck or possibly a design change. Installing the HD and securing the cover with 2 screws on front panel was very intuitive, simple, and quick (5 minutes or less). Next I swapped the drive with a slightly newer, but still old, 120GB drive and had the same good fortune. Granted, it's not a rugged device, but it's built better than I'd expect for a $19 enclosure, and it did exceed my expectations, so I give it a 5-star rating.
Right before packing it up for return I tried using a different USB cord and this solved the problem. I spent several hours trying to get this product to work and kept getting error saying "unknown USB device". I tried using this product on multiple computers and always got the same error message. Luckily I had an extra USB cord other wise I would never had solved this problem. The USB cord was completely defective.
Item is as described. Installation was a breeze and I was able to get everything off of the hard drive of my dead PC. Now I have an extra external HD as well.
item did not work. i tried thres drives and none worked. all three worked in a different enclosure
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