Originally posted by qwert99: I've never heard a success story from using a USB to SATA adapter. You may be the first, but if I were you, I wouldn't risk it.
I succesfully flashed 3 hitachi's back in the day using a USB to SATA converter. My mate also borrowed it and flashed his Hitachi fine.
But then last year I bricked 2 drives using it when the writes failed halfway through so I wouldn't recommend it.
Originally posted by qwert99: I've never heard a success story from using a USB to SATA adapter. You may be the first, but if I were you, I wouldn't risk it.
I succesfully flashed 3 hitachi's back in the day using a USB to SATA converter. My mate also borrowed it and flashed his Hitachi fine.
But then last year I bricked 2 drives using it when the writes failed halfway through so I wouldn't recommend it.
Consider yourself officially the first person I have seen who personally (not "a friend of a friend") had success with that method. Of course, I guess even when it is successful, it isn't so successful :)
Originally posted by qwert99: I've never heard a success story from using a USB to SATA adapter. You may be the first, but if I were you, I wouldn't risk it.
I succesfully flashed 3 hitachi's back in the day using a USB to SATA converter. My mate also borrowed it and flashed his Hitachi fine.
But then last year I bricked 2 drives using it when the writes failed halfway through so I wouldn't recommend it.
Consider yourself officially the first person I have seen who personally (not "a friend of a friend") had success with that method. Of course, I guess even when it is successful, it isn't so successful :)
Back when the hacked firmwares were first released there were plenty of people using USB to SATA converters succesfully.
I'm not sure that I understand what you mean by succesfull, but unsuccesfull either. When it worked it was fine, and the 2 times that it failed when I last tried more than likely had nothing to do with the adapter itself. It was done on different hardware using a different OS which is what I believe was the issue. But with that said, I would still recommend against it just in case.
I wasn't trying to imply that it was impossible, merely that I have never heard a validated report (until now) of somebody successfully using an adapter.
What I meant by successful, but not successful, is that even though it worked sometimes, it didn't work other times.
