{"id":4867,"date":"2011-01-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T11:45:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-01-19T17:45:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T11:45:12","slug":"vantec-sataide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/vantec-sataide\/","title":{"rendered":"Vantec SATA\/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This gadget is a barebones adapter for mildly tech-savvy people to connect a 2.5&#8243; or 3.5&#8243; hard drive to your computer&#8217;s USB port. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using it for about six months, and have attached a variety of drives (IDE and SATA) to my Mac, to a PC, to a VirtualBox Windows VM, and to a dedicated NAS box running Linux. I&#8217;ve consistently used it without installing dedicated drivers (and for that matter, without reading the installation guide which is provided on CD-ROM).<\/p>\n<p>For the same money (about $20) you could get a USB enclosure that keeps your drive better protected, but then you&#8217;d be locked into one specific drive size and connector type. The Vantec adapter is flexible across several drive types (2.5&#8243; v. 3.5&#8243;, SATA v. IDE) , and comes with adapters for both the data and power connections. <\/p>\n<p>I reach for this gadget when I need temporary access to a drive&#8211;usually because I took the drive out of another machine and need to get data off before it dies. Or, because I need to format a drive before it gets installed elsewhere, or just for a fast data transfer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minimalist hard drive adapter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}