I have Sans Digital TowerRAID TR5M+B Can I use this on my laptop to get the data off of the hard drives? It was setup in a jbod. MB broke on PC.
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I'm using this with a Rosewill dumb tower and can see each drive as an independent letter in Windows. If the Sans Digital tower reports as a true JBOD this adapter should work well.
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yes it is the only adapter what works with Jbod. I have the Sans tower myself. Just read the instruction who come with the adapter. It is the only adapter to show all Hard drives independently on the Desktop
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I have been using this on a 5-bay SATA tower for about 6 months and it works great
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Actually, it did not work for my purpose. My PC fried and I tried to restore files to a new box (USB 3.0 interfaces) from an eSATA external drive. Did not even register. FYI: I then tried a "Newertech" eSATA to USB 3 connector pod (pn NWTADESATA6USB3 -- Barcode: 1309000527) from "Otherworld computing". It worked. I wish you luck
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Not unless you have the right software to only read the hard drive. This device only turns the Hard Drive into an External Device. It has no options whatsoever.
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From what I have seen.. it really doesnt need anything more than a working drive..if you could either remove the laptop drive or be able to access it .. from another source.. just like dumping to a USB.. It would seem to work.. yes. The device is very very simple to operate and from the source it walks you through the download.
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If it's just data files it should work. The problem is if you have done system files it may not work.
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Should be able to use it as long as it is a SATA ( serial )drive. Older IDE drives are not compatible.
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Unfortunately I'm not savvy enough on that topic to respond, but perhaps someone at a Best Buy or such could help with that. I used it for my Dell laptop, if that's of any help at all.
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I have it used for both types of HD. Basically it allowed me to use hard drive removed from my old PC as an external device. If the HD that you trying ro read is corrupted, than you will not see anything on the screen. Cables are just a link between HD and PC.
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I suggest you look at their website for their supported systems: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/drive_bracket/datadoubler/
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yes, but be aware that since the adapter is running Java, it needs the external HD formatted to FAT32. If the external drive uses NTFS, the adapter will tell you it needs formatting because it can't read it. This has max-size implications too.
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Hi, sorry to hear about that. I used mine just to copy a HDD once and it worked fine, I haven't used after that.
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It is possible, I don't think there would be any harm to the hard drive unless you reformatted to match the computer. You should be able to plug it in, go through your explorer to find the device and accomplish what you want from there.
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It worked to allow me to retrieve the data on my hard drive. But my hard drive was not damaged. The problem was my motherboard. If your hard drive doesn't work, the data may be lost forever.
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Hellow kyle the thing is diffirent beetwin this is you can only use the hdd for sata/laptops hdd if you are using big hdd like computers/desktop etc it won't work however it will works fine on small hdd just plug it and go to system bios and click boot usb hdd or boot usb thanks.
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Yes; I have extracted a number of laptop drives from dead laptops and used in this manner. Any drive enclosure made for appropriate drive type will work.
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Don't worry, it works... Back then all the hard drives had the EIDE configuration, it will work... For then, the industry switched to SATA...buy it, it will work as long as your laptop has the same EIDE connection...
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I used it to do the exact same thing and I had no problem with it. I have used it to do several data transfers with different computers and laptops and never had a problem. Actually I did have a problem this one time but it was a problem with the hard drive itself.