The enclosure worked and powered on, though the drive was not detected

The power and fan worked when turned on, but as soon as the hard drive was connected, the power goes off!

I've got 2.5" & 3.5" enclosures, USB 3.0 & USB 2.0 in both sizes, fan cooled, external power supply, you name it.

The first unit had a nice rectangular Power supply that was FCC and UL approved which are both very important to me and should be to you as well

Either the power was too strong or the fan did not cool enough.

I also really appreciate the external power adapter that runs the Diskdrive, instead of drawing power from my computer

I thought hard drive failed,but, just not getting enough power.

Then I noticed there was a loose power connection

It lost power every so often and finally died after 3 1/2 months

It seems as if this device is great for SATA, but a shoddy power connector or some other kind of fault with this product ruins working IDE drives

It lasted about 15 minutes before it lost power

Either the power was too strong or the fan did not cool enough.

I tried lightly scraping it just in case, but still has that intermittent power connection

The port doesn't make a good connection with the power supply so the enclosure loses power if the enclosure is bumped or moved

The ability to accept IDE drives is nice, but it's the rock-solid construction and robust power supply that I like most.

It will not work using USB power, power adapter must be plugged in

Useless, absolutely useless IDE power adapter with a SATA data connector?

This is very annoying, but at least I can put these bulky power adapters in a extension cord