USB to SATA/IDE Universal Kit with One Touch Backup

Just get a shiny new hard drive and need to transfer your files over? Or maybe you're just doing your duty and backing up information on a regular basis; whatever the reasons, and we're sure there's more, getting files onto your bare drive gets simple with this driver-less USB to SATA/IDE Universal Kit with One Touch Backup. This kit works its magic by providing the best of both worlds: portability and one-touch simplicity are wrapped into one marvel of functionality. You'll get support for 3.5-inch SATA/SATA II drives up to 750GB and all IDE/EIDE drives up to 500GB -- a fancy "bisynchronous mode" copies data onto two drives simultaneously. Just plug it in, give the button a press, and you're set -- and although time is money, be aware that this modern-day convenience will run you $42.

[kaybee @ Jul 14th 2006 11:14AM]

I wonder if this could successfully transfer a hardrive with an OS on it without extra steps to have the new drive working as a replacement for the old.

[Steven @ Jul 14th 2006 11:16AM]

"getting files onto your bare drive gets simple with this driver-less USB to SATA/IDE Universal Kit"

Driver-less? Then why does it come with a Driver CD?
From the website:

Package content:
Driver CD

[Carl Trimble @ Jul 14th 2006 11:24AM]

Probably comes with the driver disk for Windows 98.

[pb @ Jul 14th 2006 11:30AM]

Well, you clicked READ..you just didnt do it ;)

From the site:
# Support PC/ Mac OS/ Notebook
# Support OS : Win98SE, 2000, ME, XP, Mac OS 8.6 or higher.
# Win2000, ME, XP no driver needed.

[jorellh @ Jul 14th 2006 11:35AM]

I want a device you can connect an EIDE or SATA drive to, then connect a new drive of equal or larger size, that will clone the first disk to the new disk. And do this very quickly and without need of a PC or OS. I thought this would do that but it looks more like just a USB-IDE adapter that supports SATA and has a one touch backup button.

[oblongmouth @ Jul 14th 2006 11:41AM]

@Steven: Wild guess - Windows 98/ME

They don't support USB plug 'n' play natively

[TheChaz @ Jul 14th 2006 12:00PM]

jorellh: Your device exists. It's called the Diskology Disk Jockey. I've got one, and it works great. Not only does it do disk-to-disk copy w/o a computer, but you can use it as a raid controller. Plug in two drives and connect it to a PC with firewire or usb and it'll mirror or span the volumes.

http://www.diskology.com/djstandard.html

[Nigel Ballard @ Jul 14th 2006 12:30PM]

Can this Disk Jockey be used to ramp a Tivo 40 to something larger without screwing up the existing partition and data?

[Cowboy_X @ Jul 14th 2006 1:20PM]

I just bought a nearly identical device from NewEgg (I think it was about $27), looks the same but lacks the blue LED and one-touch button. Used it to to clean up some spyware infested laptop drives from my desktop. Excellent product.

[kaybee @ Jul 14th 2006 1:23PM]

@TheChaz: your Diskjockey looks like it does the exact same thing as this "one touch backup kit" does, except that it supports Firewire, RAID, but does not support SATA w/o an adapter card...and it's $350. I'd much rather have the "one touch backup kit" for its price.

Either TheChaz works for Diskology, or he is one misguided fanboy with too much money.

[jorellh @ Jul 14th 2006 1:27PM]

kaybee,

The devices don't do the same thing. The device Chaz suggested does drive to drive imaging like Ghost, without the need for a PC. This thing just allows you to connect 1 or 2 drives to a PC via usb and backup some files from the PC to the USB drive. Not the same thing. I want the device Chaz suggested but it is too expensive for my budget...

[BobbyW @ Jul 14th 2006 1:32PM]

I'm going to order one of these. My drives are starting to pile up. Both SATA and IDE. I was looking at the Wiebetech DriveDock products which look cool, but they are more $$ and seem to be usb OR IDE - but not both in that price range. Wiebetech has firewire though.

[Twist @ Jul 14th 2006 2:10PM]

I would like to point out that Newer Technology has a better and cheaper product like this in their ATA/ATAPI/IDE/SATA to USB 2.0 Universal Adapter. For $25 (almost half the price) it lets you connect to 2.5, 3.5, and 5.25 inch ATA or SATA devices.

[Twist @ Jul 14th 2006 2:17PM]

Stupid comment system removed the link from my last comment.

http://newertech.com/products/products_univ_adptr.php

[MuDoggy @ Jul 14th 2006 5:22PM]

I don't think the NewerTechnology "drive adapter" is the same as a "one touch backup" solution.

[MuDoggy @ Jul 14th 2006 5:26PM]

hold on... does this need an OS to work? if so, that means you can't plug in your boot drive, and have that copy over to backup your boot drive. Is the 1button just a macro that launches a select all and copy?

[godfatherrr @ Jul 14th 2006 7:13PM]

is there any hardware/software availiable that copys ENTIRE hard drives INCLUDING the OS so that it is like you have 2 of the same computers??

[TheChaz @ Jul 15th 2006 1:38PM]

I guess you could call me a disk jockey fanboy, if by that you mean someone who likes the product because it does exactly what I need, at a reasonable price ($250, not $350 if you JFGI: http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/), and works as advertised.

[awkm @ Jul 16th 2006 6:45AM]

Does anyone know if this thing will allow me to run one IDE and one SATA HDD at the same time? Through one USB port and only using one power source?

From the pictures, SATA to IDE connection, it seems like it's possible since it's to copy hdd's back and forth.

[Kris K @ Jul 16th 2006 3:10PM]

This will let me CLose HARD DRIVES?
I wonder if I could close my Xbox Hard drive with this?
Using both same source and destination drives?

Kris K

[k5fni @ Jul 18th 2006 1:06AM]

Mudoggy's queries about the one-button backup seem valid. I've not seen anywhere exactly how and what this item does. Is your cloned drive bootable? Does it just back up the data directories? Orwhat?

And if you're copying a drive to a DVD or CD-RW drive, does it allow for changing disks to accomplish a total backup?

Any ACTUAL USERS or KNOWLEDGEABLE FOLKS out there in readerland?

[Samurai @ Jan 19th 2007 5:16AM]

For better and more efficient backups and restores of all your important files and folders, you can also take a look at another reliable service IBackup.