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In laymen’s terms, it went from a theoretical 60 MB/s to 640 MB/s! This increases the transfer rates from up to 480 Mbps with USB 2.0 all the way up to 5 Gbps with USB 3.0. Rather than re-inventing the wheel, Vantec changed out the USB 2.0 controller with a newer USB 3.0 controller inside the adapter.
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How do you make this product better? You add SuperSpeed USB 3.0 support! Not bad and the little adapter that costs $18.99 shipped has earned a 4.4 out of 5 stars rating on Amazon with 1,277 customer reviews since being introduced in 2007.
USB TO IDE/SATA ADAPTER PC
The small adapter was ingenious as it ensured that you should always have a way to connect drives to your desktop or laptop without opening a case or fiddling about the inside of your PC to get it connected to the motherboard. Vantec even included an external power brick to power 5.25″ optical drives and 3.5″ hard drives with this external adapter. Vantec came up with a nifty little product called the Vantec SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter (part number CB-ISATAU2) years ago that allowed you to take any SATA or IDE drive and connect it to your PC through a USB 2.0 data port. All storage drives fail at some point and there is likely a situation where you wanted to connect a drive to your computer to work on, but couldn’t easily do so.