You've got a 2014 hard drive in a shoebox and you need the photos on it by Friday. Or a school IT tech's testing a pulled IDE drive and needs to read it without cracking open a desktop. Either way, you don't want to hunt for a proprietary cable or wait on a national chain's six-day shipping.
The SA492C slots in 2.5" and 3.5" SATA or IDE drives, plus 5.25" optical units, and talks to your laptop over USB-C at up to 5 Gbps. Plug it in, flip the switch, copy files. No drivers. No fiddling with jumper settings on the IDE connector – the built-in power header handles that.
It ships with a dedicated 12 V / 2 A power adapter so your 3.5" spinners actually get enough juice to spin up, and a USB-C-to-USB-A combo cable means you can use it on last year's MacBook or this year's Windows ultrabook without hunting for an extra dongle.
ABS housing, 9.4 × 5.7 × 1.6 cm – small enough to live in a drawer and pull out when the next dead drive shows up. Works on Windows 7+, macOS 10.8+, and Linux. Twenty units on our shelf right now.
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| brand | Simplecom |
| model | SA492C |
| host_interface | USB-C (USB 3.2 Gen 1) |
| drive_interfaces | 1× SATA, 1× 3.5" IDE, 1× 2.5" IDE |
| data_transfer_rate | Up to 5 Gbps |
| supported_drives | 2.5"/3.5" IDE HDDs, 2.5"/3.5" SATA HDDs or SSDs, 5.25" SATA/IDE optical drives |
| power_input | DC 12 V / 2 A |
| housing_material | ABS plastic |
| dimensions | 9.4 × 5.7 × 1.6 cm (L × W × H) |
| operating_systems | Windows 7 or later, macOS 10.8 or later, Linux |
| package_contents | 1× SA492C adapter, 1× USB-C + USB-A combo cable, 1× IDE power cable, 1× power adapter |
| rrp_aud | 54.49 |
| stock_qty | 20 |
