First off, the reason I needed this was because my lovely Acer desktop fried its own motherboard.

When my old desktop PC crashed I thought I had lost all of my photos, music and documents.

Dell Inspiron desktop crashed ... motherboard, etc ( out of warranty) which I really didn't care about so long as I could transfer my files,etc from hard drive

I had a desktop PC which died on

I used these to move data from 3 old desktop hard drives to a new 2.5" raid setup

It rescued data from my dead desktop that I thought I would never be able to recover.

I can now access my old IDE or SATA laptop hard drives or my interal desktop hard drives I had lying around.!!

My desktop crashed and I tried everything but could not get it to work

Once my old hard drives were removed from the dead desktop pc, only took 5 minutes before I had access to the removed drives.

I used it to pull data off of an old desktop hard-drive that had been laying around my garage for a couple of years.

This worked great for getting all my info off an old desktop hard drive.

Within minutes, I pulled the IDE drive from a recently dead E-machine, powered it up using the supplied power supply, and connected it to the laptop that replaced it

(Apricorn couldn't)- Transfer speeds faster (25MB/s) than the Apricorn (15MB/s) with a good 3.5" IDE drive using dd with rdisk parameters