NewerTech Universal Drive Adapter

Mac / PC / USB 3.0

Features:

Access data from almost any bare drive from the last 15 years* via USB
Reuse bare drives no longer used as a computer's main drive.
Drive connection and activity LED indicator light
Connect via USB 3.0, USB 2.0, and USB 1.1 port
Supports real-world data rates of up to 200MB/s
Supports drives up to 6.0TB (6000GB) and beyond
Plug and play ease of use

The "Swiss Army Knife" of Disk Connectivity...
Turns Any Bare Drive Into An External Storage Solution!!

The NewerTech USB Universal Drive Adapter is the perfect tool for accessing bare drives without having to install them into a computer or drive enclosure. Being compatible with almost any 2.5-inch, 3.5-inch or 5.25-inch drive from the last 15 years makes it the go-to tool for accessing data on IDE, ATA, ATAPI, and SATA drives.

It's the ultimate add-on to any workbench, small enough to travel in your toolbox or tuck away in a drawer so it's ready whenever you need to access drive data via USB. The Universal Drive Adapter is the "must have" universal data access tool.

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OWC's A Closer Look

Take a closer look at the NewerTech
Universal Drive Adapter.

Includes

USB Universal Drive Adapter
UL Listed, Universal auto-switching power supply
High-quality double-shielded connecting cable: USB 3.0 (Micro-B) to USB 3.0 or USB 2.0/1.1 (Standard-A)
SATA data and power combo cable
IDE/ATA extension cable
NewerTech Universal Drive Adapter Manual (3.3MB PDF)

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USB 3.0 Universal Drive Adapter Specifications:

Drive Supported

2.5", 3.5", or 5.25" hard drives, SSDs, or optical drives with any standard IDE/ATA/ATAPI 40 pin or SATA interface

Data Interface

USB 3.0 (Micro-B), USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 backwards compatibile

Chipset

Innostor IS611

Compliance:

RoHS CE

Power Supply

UL Listed, Universal auto-switching power supply AC input 100~240v 50/60Hz DC output 12v/2A, 5v/2A

Dimensions

1.9 in (W) x 3.35 in (D) x .53 in (H)
49 mm (W) x 85 mm (D) x13.4 mm (H)

Weight

1.4 oz (.04 kg) with accessories 14.3 oz (0.40 kg)

System Requirements

Compatible with any computer that can support USB 3.0, USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 external drives

Macintosh Requirements

OS X 10.3.9 or later. Support for drives over 2TB requires Mac OS X 10.5 and later

Windows Requirements

Windows XP or later. Support for drives over 2TB requires Windows Vista and later
Note: Some older operating systems will not support the speed improvements of USB 3.0, but will still work as a USB 2.0 device.

OWC Note: 3.0TB hard drives are only recognized by Windows XP 64-bit versions or later. The Windows XP 32-bit version DOES NOT support 3.0TB drives.

Linux Requirements

Linux version capable of supporting USB 3.0, USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 external storage devices

Features

Access data from almost any bare drive from the last 15 years* via USB
Connect to eSATA external enclosures
Reuse bare drives no longer used as a computer's main drive.
Drive connection and activity LED indicator light
Connect via USB 3.0, USB 2.0, and USB 1.1 port
Supports real-world data rates of up to 200MB/s
Supports drives up to 6.0TB (6000GB) and beyond
Plug and play ease of use

Recommended USB 3.0 Cards

Cards that OWC has tested and qualified for the Universal Drive Adapter
PCIe (PCI Express) for Desktops

HighPoint RocketU USB 3.0 Host Adapter for Mac $127.99

CalDigit 2 Port USB 3.0 Host Adapter $94.99

Sonnet Allegro USB 3.0 PCIe SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Host Adapter $67.99

Product Manual

NewerTech Universal Drive Adapter Manual (3.3MB PDF)

Warranty

1 Year NewerTech Product Limited Warranty

The best warranty is one you never have to use, but should the need occur - NewerTech is proud to provide a superior level of support and warranty coverage to our customers. Even when not used, we understand the peace of mind afforded by a longer warranty period. NewerTech's industry leading coverage is a testament to our confidence in the reliability of the solutions that we offer. NewerTech solutions are engineered to demanding quality standards in order to deliver the most reliable, highest performance available on the market in each storage category.

View more information about the 1 Year NewerTech Product Limited Warranty

Note: Do not disassemble or otherwise open your NewerTech solution prior to the conclusion of 1 Year NewerTech Product Limited Warranty's period. Doing so will void the remainder of the NewerTech limited warranty.

Manufacturer provided specifications for Newer Technology p/n U3NVSPATA UPC#: 811643011304

Reviews

Customer Ratings

Write a Review 4.8 / 5 44 out of 48 (92%) reviewers would recommend this product

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Verified Buyer

Reviewer: PhilDx Location: Southwest MO Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 4/5 It works August 8, 2016 Quick and dirty way to hook up that pile of old drives you've got lying around, to transfer everything to an up-to-date terabyte drive. At least that's what I used it for. It works just fine, bearing in mind that the old IDE connectors were never meant for switching around like this. Just take care and power everything down between swaps.

I would recommend this item to a friend! Customer Videos:

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Reviewer: Anonymous

Rating: 5/5 works like it says. easy and adaptable! July 7, 2016 got this because of a dying drive...works perfect. shipped quick and the price is right! to bad my drive was more dead than alive :( but at least I was able to diagnose it with this tool! now I have this drive adapter for any future needs at all! :)

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Northampton, MA Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 3-4 months

Rating: 5/5 Nice product to have June 24, 2016 If you do your own computer repairs this is a great piece of equipment to have. I have used it to hook up hard drives to recover data.and also as a temporary external drive.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Victoria, Australia Age: 25-34 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Upgrade from first gen Universal Drive Adapter June 11, 2016 I purchased the first generation Universal Drive Adapter years ago and it had received quite a bit of use from formatting previously internal hard drives through to recovering data from failed external hard drives. With changes in hard drive size, I figured it was time to update to a new version and the speed difference is noticeable. Comes with all the required cables. Assisted greatly in quickly recovering data from a failed old network drive.

Very happy and almost essential for anyone who might find themselves fixing or upgrading their own or other peoples computers.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Fremantle, Western Australia Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Does many jobs very well May 15, 2016 Works exactly as advertised. Have used it to read from, write to, and sometimes initialise for Mac or Windows a variety of IDE and SATA drives, big and small. Also used it to read and write to CDs and DVDs. Where devices need external power the included power-brick works flawlessly on Australia's 240V supply through a plug-adapter, and more recently after replacing its plug. This Universal Drive Adapter has done every job I've given it so far very well. Those jobs included just about every drive variety listed in the adapter's specs. I deal with all types of bare drives so this is the tool I've always been dreaming about.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Texas Age: 45-54 Experience Level: IT Professional

Rating: 5/5 Good Tool May 14, 2016 This worked just as advertised. Made the hard drive exchange a simple process.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Melbourne Australia Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Perfect tool March 11, 2016 Must have for drive swapping easy to use and covers all combinations

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: NC Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 4/5 Seems to work January 17, 2016 I had a pile of old IDE drives lying around and wanted to see what was on them before trashing them. I was able to successfully use the adapter to connect to some of the drives, but not all of them. Not sure if it was an issue with the drives, or the adapter.

The cables, and power supplies take up a good bit of desktop space and are a bit clumsy to use.. but they do seem to work.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Newtown, CT Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Drive Adapter: Home Run January 14, 2016 Great product when you've got a mac to update! This is my second one - a friend borrowed it and never returned it!

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Ventura, CA Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 5-6 months

Rating: 5/5 Simple and Small December 18, 2015 I like to keep some offsite back ups. With this I can just use bare drives which is a nice cost savings. It is also nice to clone drives to new discs. The local service wanted 99$ !!! to clone my dad's new OWC SSD before they put it into his iMac. I ran over with this and did it for him.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Largo, Tampa Bay Area Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 Essential tool if you have multiple drives December 7, 2015 Well made, plugs a little tight till you use it a few times, works as it should and better. After I moved my drives to SSD it made transitions so much easier than the A to B and move to another bay and so forth.

The old drives, still good but slow are now in cases for backups and transfers off site.

It paid for itself in minutes....

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous

Rating: 5/5 Drive Reuse November 12, 2015 This is a great product! It has allowed me to re-use the 160GB hard drive from my late 1st generation AppleTV. The AppleTV died from a power supply failure but the hard drive was still perfectly good. Now I have a small extra backup drive.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Virgin Islands Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Just the ticket October 20, 2015 I live a 1 hour airplane ride away from any qualified Mac repair shops. So, when my 27-inch iMac died, retrieving my data looked like it could be a major ordeal , until I came across this awesome device. It shipped quickly, was pretty inexpensive for what it was. I had the tools to take out my SDDs, and used this adapter to painlessly connect to them and to retrieve all my data. No software needed. Makes me feel that my data is much safer since it's easily retrievable from any of my other computers (so long as the SDD drive doesn't die). Probably worth having even if you've not had to retrieve data from a dead computer drive. Sooner or later that day comes to a lot of us, but if you're prepared, you'll be able to take that kind of event in your stride, or might be able to help out a friend in need.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: BrisVegas Age: 45-54 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 3-4 months

Rating: 5/5 Any disk possible September 14, 2015 this is great, got data off all my old drives, even the ancient IDE ones, sweet

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Hollywood Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 3-4 months

Rating: 5/5 NOT like the cheapies! July 17, 2015 This one's made for the long haul-I've purchased three so far. One for hubby-one for the house 'puter, and one for the "travel 'puter". Works on any kind of computer, Mac, PC, is recognized by any OS (well, maybe not, but OSX, Windows, and Linux for sure.) Husband was skeptical because he's already gone through two "similar" units. Cheaply-made ones that die within a couple years. He sighed when I handed him "yet another" adapter. (His last adapter wasn't being recognized by Windows when it was attached.) I told him to give this one a try. He did. He likes. Life is good. Another winner product from OWC. What else needs to be said other than Thanks again for offering such excellent quality add-ons. Please continue doing what others don't, and I'll continue to be a loyal customer!

I would recommend this item to a friend!

Verified Buyer Top 250 Contributor

Reviewer: Anonymous Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 5/5 Works perfectly July 8, 2015 Had a bad power cord on my first one, that was replaced as soon as I mentioned it, with no cost and no drama. The unit works great, and it one of the most useful tech tools I have ever owned.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Arecibo. PR Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 5/5 Extremely practical July 3, 2015 I had a 5.25" Drive rolling around my home and I decided to put it to use. I got this kit and it's awesome. Storage space is getting cheaper, but with a kit like this, nothing goes to waste.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Los Angeles, CA Age: 45-54 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 3/5 Could Be Perfect June 22, 2015 This adapter arrived with one wire loose on the feed to power the drives. It took me a while to figure out why the drives were not spinning up. I crimped it back on and it works just fine. Could be better quality control and perhaps a nice soldered connection.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

Response from MacSales.com, Marketing June 23, 2015 We do spot check those cables for Quality Control. It is possible that either one cable was lose or became that way during the rigors of shipping. Regardless we'e glad you got it up and running. We do cover all the components with a 1 year warranty for exactly this reason.

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Mesa, AZ Age: 55-65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Excellent adapter, very complete June 11, 2015 Does just what the catalog says. I've used it to mount and clone a new HD for my MacBook. Very clear instructions; good quality. I am sure I'll use this many more times since I fix all the extended families' Macs.

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Reviewer: Anonymous

Rating: 5/5 Great product May 3, 2015 This device has been superb. Moving data between older discs and new computers or using it with recovery software has been superb.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Left Coast Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 4/5 Functionally great, but one caveat April 20, 2015 Product works very well to connect a bare drive to a computer via USB when a drive enclosure's connectors/electronics fail, to still use the old drive on occasion after upgrading to a higher-capacity internal drive without having to spend money on a separate enclosure for the old, low-cap drive, or if one wants to regularly use a bare drive for backup storage to put in a safe-deposit box, for example, among other uses.

The only complaint I have is that the quality and construction of the connector that connects with the cable from the power supply is abysmally poor - the individual pins move separately within the connector housing and must be individually aligned with the holes in the connector of the power supply cable. They are also easily pushed backwards out of the housing when trying to mate with the power supply cable. Other than that one connector, the quality of everything else seems just fine.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Berea, Ohio Age: 55-65 Owned Product: less than a month

Rating: 5/5 Works as advertised April 10, 2015 This adapter was just the thing to make my installation of an SDD go smoothly.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

Verified Buyer

Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Westport, CT Age: Over 65 Experience Level: IT Professional Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Blazingly Fast! April 6, 2015 Plug this adapter in a USB 3 port and the drive runs at full speed, unlike the previous versions of this product. 400 GB in about 1 & 1/2 hours. It also works with slower ports.

Each version of this product improves on its cabling though it is still a bit clunky. It is not meant for a permanent installation but very handy in an emergency.

I would recommend this item to a friend!

Verified Buyer Top 50 Contributor

Reviewer: jep7375 Location: Brunei Age: 35-44 Experience Level: Home User Owned Product: 1-3 months

Rating: 5/5 Great features April 5, 2015 Finally a product that enables old drives to be accessed externally!!

I would recommend this item to a friend!

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Reviewer: Anonymous Location: Wauconda, IL Age: Over 65 Experience Level: Power User Owned Product: over 6 months

Rating: 5/5 This product was fantastic! March 28, 2015 I bought this drive adapter to retrieve information from broken computers. My daughter had an old Apple iBook and lost the power / charger adapter. I took the drive out of it and in a few minutes had all of her information safely stored on my computer. Worked like a charm!

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*Compatible with full height 5.25" optical drives only. Not compatible with slimline optical drives such as those used in a laptop.

NewerTech Universal Drive Adapter Mfr P/N: U3NVSPATA OWC SKU: NWTU3NVSPATA Connect any 2.5", 3.5", or 5.25" drive to a Mac or PC with USB 3.0 interface. Adapter w/Power. Fast, Simple, Plug & Play. GREAT for transferring data, etc. 1 Year Newer Technology Limited Warranty Ships: Same Day

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