Newer Technology USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter

Product Summary & Final Conclusions:

I was quite surprised by how small the adapter actually was, but as I said previously the power brick makes up for that in its size. The Newertech adapter is easy and intuitive to use. NewerTech states in their documentation and that I will reiterate here, this is to be used as a temporary solution as it does not provide any type of protection (or cooling) for the drive that an external enclosure would provide.

The speeds seem to be max out around 30MB/s, which is reasonable for a USB 2.0 interface.

Many of these types of devices are a one trick pony converting only one type of disk interface to USB, whereas the Newertech adapter is universal and works for all types of hard drives and even optical drives. There have been several times for me personally where this device would have come in very handy, but alas I did not have one back then. And for those of us who worry about cheap power bricks, you don’t have to worry about this one, both the 5V and 12V line voltages were within the expected 5% (5.20V and 12.26V).

My only real gripe was that the provided USB cable was only about 2.5 feet long, but that’s not a big deal as it’s a standard USB cable.

Overall, this product performed exactly as expected with no hiccups or troubles, it is a great little tool to have. For the price it is definitely something worth investing in, because you never know when you might need it.