I bought this for forensic work on IDE drives for old computers at my workplace. It worked great, in fact, it's the only IDE to SATA tool I've ever used that didn't crap out and almost destroy the IDE HDD. This is the real deal. Highly recommended for recovering data from IDE disks.

Note: I used this on a laptop (2.5") IDE disk and it worked perfectly, but have not used it on desktop (3.5") HDDs.