Another tidbit to remember is that 1.8 and 2.5 inch IDE drives can run by USB juice alone. In the image above, you will see that I have an 80gb Hitachi SATA drive and a 80gb Western Digital IDE drive connected to the adapter at the same time. It may be hard to discern in the image, but I had to use the female to male IDE extended cable to connect the IDE drive to the adapter due to the fact that the SATA drive obstructed the 40-pin IDE connector. The Y power cable was also needed for this particular setup. Even though it looks sorta messy, both drives mounted and worked as expected. Files could be copied back and forth between the drives and back and forth between my desktop computer.Ī much more tidy configuration is pictured here with the same SATA drive and a 40gb Toshiba IDE. Again, both drives worked fine when connected in this manner. I should also mention at this point, that the power brick included with this adapter, has an ON/OFF switch built into the cable. It’s housed in the oval shaped blob in the middle of the cord leading to the adapter.

This is a welcome update as it was lacking in previous versions of this product. The only bad thing about the power switch is the fact that the only way you really know if the drives are powered off, is by feeling them for vibrations, listening for whirling platter noise, or seeing if the drives are still mounted on your PC/Mac. The small Blue power light on the power brick remains lit even when it is not supplying power to the adapter. Maybe the next version of this adapter will have the power switch on the opposite side of the brick. You might be wondering if it is possible to connect 2 IDE devices at the same time to this adapter. The answer is YES, you can connect them, but they won’t work.

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