I bought this device from Temu that allows one to connect old disk drives or newer SSD drives to
one's computer via USB. I thought that I would use to to see whether there
is any interesting material on an old 3.5" disk drive that I have. I could
also use it to restore anything that might have been on one of the SSD
drives for my mobile computer that caused the computer to crash1 in the past.
Connecting an SSD drive was very simple: there is a socket on one side of
the drive that matches the pins on the SSD drive. Once this was connected
and the USB cable (not visible) that leaves the device was connected to my
computer, the disk was visible on my computer. As this disk dates from
only a few months ago, I doubt that there is anything that I wanted to
restore from it. As far as I was concerned, this was more a proof of
concept.
Connecting a 3.5" disk was more problematic. I had difficulty at first
figuring out which socket would
fit the pins on the drive. Eventually I solved this puzzle as can be seen
in the picture. An extra power cable has to be connected from the device
to the drive. Even after everything was connected properly, my computer
could not see this drive. I looked at the instructions (such as they are)
and read:
for 3.5" drivers [sic] and old SATA HDD, you need to connect 12V 2A power
adapter and 4-pin power cable provided. The 4-pin power cable was connected but I have no 12V 2A power adapter
and at the moment I don't have such a power supply. But it so happens that Temu can provide this
missing power cable so at some time in the future I'll be able to access this disk as
well as any other old drive that I might find (or from my currently
languishing XP machine).
The practical value at the moment is zero, but this may well come in handy
in the future.
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