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Message: [QUOTE="Paul, post: 14220539"] This is a 3-in-1 kit. One of the pictures on the Newegg page is wrong, and the CablesToGo site has a corrected picture. [URL]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812196455[/URL] [URL]http://www.cablestogo.com/product/30504[/URL] Package Contents • USB to IDE/SATA Adapter • 5in Serial ATA 7-pin M/M Cable • 5V 1A/12V 1A Power Supply (supports both SATA Power and 4-Pin Molex Power) • Power Cable (for power supply) • User Manual This is the user manual. It took a Google search to find it, and it wasn't clear on the site itself, how to get here. [URL]http://www.cablestogo.com/docs/manuals/30001_-_40000/30504.pdf[/URL] This is copied text from the manual. For 3.5" IDE drive: -Connect the 4-pin molex power plug to the drive's power receptacle. -Plug the drive directly to the 40-pin connector on the adapter (it is keyed, and will only fit one way). For 2.5" drive: -Plug the drive directly to the 44-pin connector on the adapter (it is keyed, and will only fit one way). For SATA drive: -Connect the 15-pin SATA (flat) power plug to the SATA drive's power receptacle. -Connect the Serial-ATA data cable from the SATA drive to the receptacle on the adapter. This means: 44 pin IDE (2.5" drive) is powered from the USB cable (5V @ 500mA max). 40 pin IDE (3.5" drive) is powered from the included adapter. SATA (2.5" laptop or 3.5" desktop) is powered from the included adapter. It's important to analyze the kit, to determine where the power comes from. If an older 44 pin IDE happened to draw more than 500mA at startup, the drive might not be detected as it would spin down again. Some of those adapters, I've seen ones with a power input connector so that the drive power is more often derived from the power adapter. The weakest part of 3-in-1 kits, is the quality of the power adapter. Since they keep trying to drop the price, they started to use lower quality wall adapters at one point. This causes a significant dropout rate on the products and soon all of them were getting poor reviews. Before buying a 3-in-1 with wall adapter, read the customer reviews carefully to see if the wall adapter is a "toaster/smoker". The above C2G, makes the mistake of using a rotary switch in the middle of the power output cable. While this is a great idea, those rotary switches (cam presses contacts) are not very reliable. And one reviewer feels the reason his drives no longer spin up, is that switch is failed. If that were to happen, I'd cut on either side of the switch portion of the cable, and get a DPST rocker switch from Radio Shack and rewire the thing. You would wire through the ground (grounds not connected via switch and ground is always connected), while the two poles of the switch gate the +5V and +12V power wires. If the power adapter failed, I'd probably throw the whole lot away. You're not likely to find a dual output 5V/12V adapter at Radio Shack to take its place. ******* This one is not a 3-in-1, and just handles one drive type. This cable handles 2.5" SATA only, and the hard drive is USB bus powered. If plugged to a USB2 port, the recommended current limit is 5V @ 500ma. The USB3 standard allows more USB current to flow, and has a higher limit. No power adapter is included. So we know this one is always bus powered, and consequently, is for 2.5" drives only. While you could purchase some kind of SATA to IDE adapter to slap on the end of it, that would be silly. If you really need to operate with all drive types, buy a 3-in-1 kit. [URL]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812400542[/URL] ******* I've also just seen a lay-flat piece of plastic with a drive connector on one end, which is one of those cables, with a tray you can rest the hard drive in. That's similar to a hard drive dock, only with a horizontal orientation instead of the vertical orientation of a HDD dock. (Adapter powered, vertically oriented SATA dock for 2.5 and 3.5 inch SATA only. No IDE on this setup.) [URL]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182237[/URL] The combinations are endless, but there are subtle differences in terms of where the power comes from on each setup. I would prefer the setup always got power from a wall adapter, but that's just me. I don't really like USB bus powered hard drive solutions (for 2.5" disks) because of the chance there won't be enough power to spin up the disk. Paul [/QUOTE]

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