I was too curious and broke the seal. Will actually try to use it, probably for the rare full /home backup every 2 or 3 years, since it needs external power and is probably not that fast. I’d date this artifact late 2000s? It might have USB 2, making it fast enough.
Weird though that I’d buy this and forget about it forever. It definitely cost enough to matter to me back then.
Theoretically yes, but most sata drives were faster than ide drives. So it ends up being a wash really…USB 2.0 being the bottle neck and ide drive speed and it not being able to completely hit ATA133s transfer rate really. I still bet that while on paper the IDE looks faster, it’ll be slower in real world.