Apricorn EZ Upgrade IDE Universal Enclosure Kit

I purchased this kit to clone a hard drive I have. It worked like a charm, and I was able to use the kit to create a cloned hard drive within 30 minutes.

The instruction manual was good, but it left out an important point of installing the device driver for the USB hard drive case. Basically, before you start with the instructions in the manual, you should connect the USB hard drive case to the laptop via the provided USB cable. When you boot up the laptop, it will recognize the USB device and load the appropriate device driver. At that point, you can shutdown the laptop and start with the instructions in the manual.

The USB hard drive case they include in the kit is made of cheap plastic. The manufacturer suggestions a secondary use of the kit as an external hard drive for backing up files. Unless you plan on keeping this external hard drive in one location and don't plan on moving it around, I would not use the case as an external hard drive. The case offers minumal protection for a hard drive.

Overall, this kit is very good.

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"It worked well, on the second try"

3 stars | on October 19, 2009 by agent8426

Pros

This product worked well, but it took two trys of about three hours a peice. The product is very easy to use and the directions are simple to follow.

Cons

The primary con is the price. If this product were around 20 bucks I'd give it annother star. The second con is the drive enclosure, it is large and heavy compaired to what else is available

Summary

This was a good start for my first dirve clone--it worked. The free programs made me nervous, and I figured something in a box had to work. I would not buy this again. In the futrue I would use a ten buck enclosure and a free program.

"Find another product"

0.5 stars | on September 2, 2009 by jccoop1979

Pros

The case is good

Cons

Product doesn't work!!! I used it and it states don't turn off computer. After 8 hours I figured it was hung up so I turned off. I then checked to see if it did its job. It comes up err1err3. format start over with another companies program.

Summary

There case is good but software is Junk. Also there supposed technical support is garbage. Call leave them a message and they never call you back.

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