I've found USB-to-SATA/IDE converters relatively painless. There have certainly been some defective units (or defective hardware or chip designs). And some drive/converter combinations just may not work. But in most cases, you just hook everything up and it works.Originally posted by: Slickone
BTW, isn't this basically the same thing as an external drive, without the enclosure? Do external HDD's have this many problems?