Also, I plan on buying this (link below) external hard drive for future use, and it would be nice to know if either of those cable adapters above would be more/less useful to me if I ever need to use it with this 1TB external hard drive:
http://www.amazon.com/Fantom-G-Force-Desktop-External-GF1000EU/dp/B0012VL6VS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1283621889&sr=8-1
Thanks again.
Hi, after recently dropping my 2.5in external hard drive (http://www.amazon.com/SmartDisk-USBFLB100-FireLite-External-Drive/dp/B00065IH40) I am planning to buy an IDE/SATA to USB 2.0 Cable Adapter in a cheap attempt to get my external drive working again. I was advised by Bob to consider the link below, but I found a similar-looking product (the 2nd link) for cheaper. Since I have no knowledge about these products, could someone tell me if there's any real reason not to go with the cheaper one? Thanks for helping me compare these products!
More Expensive:
http://www.amazon.com/USB-2-0-SATA-5-25-Adapter/dp/B000J2GUS0/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1283622617&sr=8-4
Slightly Cheaper:
http://www.amazon.com/Serial-ATA-Adapter-Converter-Backup/dp/B001Q4Z5KY/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1283622909&sr=8-8

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