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All in all, you can't go wrong with this for a measly (.). Some people say this doesn't work. The thing I liked most, was the ease of drive installation. The instructions say Master. My drive was already on Cable Select, when I took it out of my old enclosure. 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. My previous enclosure was from MadDog, and it was a bitch to install the drive. 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.
Some people say it's the ONLY way to get it to work. But a drop of super glue solved that problem. This is a great deal for the price. This Sabrent model has a very simple and clever design. My guess is, it depends on the particular hard drive people are using.
Jumper pins were set for "Master" as noted on the scant instruction sheet, and it worked as advertised. Installing the HD and securing the cover with 2 screws on front panel was very intuitive, simple, and quick (5 minutes or less). 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. 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. I was pleasantly surprised to find no such problems, either due to dumb luck or possibly a design change. Next I swapped the drive with a slightly newer, but still old, 120GB drive and had the same good fortune.
The USB cord was completely defective. 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.
Installation was a breeze and I was able to get everything off of the hard drive of my dead PC. Item is as described. Now I have an extra external HD as well.
i tried thres drives and none worked. item did not work. all three worked in a different enclosure
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