Keep Those Drives Alive

The NewerTech USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter will allow connection of an exposed hard drive to a USB port.

In a simple plug-and-play manner, data can be accessed from any 2.5-inch, 3.5-inch or 5.25-inch hard drive.

When users upgrade their  computers with a higher-capacity hard drive, the old drives often end up just sitting in a desk drawer.

Now the data from those drives is easy to recover: Just use the adapter to connect the drive and a USB port on your computer. The hard drive will then mount like any other, and the necessary data can be transferred efficiently.

Smaller hard drives can also be used to back up data. This $24.99 adapter makes it easy to use multiple older drives to back up important data.