usb-sata adapter question
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Hi, im interested in buying one of these usb to sata adapters to try to access some old hdds if i can remember the password from Veracrypt that is. My question is, are these devices safe to use at all? Im looking and all I see is some sort of generic devices from chinese brands, and who knows what they contain inside. What are the odds they have internals that allow things such as storing keystrokes to get your pass, or let alone some sort of communication elsewhere to send this data? I mean who knows right. So I was thinking, should I just do the annoying thing of pluging them directly on a desktop computer? It would be handy to be able to do this on a laptop with such cables, but im just not sure what im buying, i am not a hardware specialist. Maybe someone here understands the ins and outs of such devices. Example, you can look up, Ugreen sata to usb, Sabrent sata to usb, Orico sata to usb etc. Any of these would do, but im not sure what they do. Thanks.
"some sort of generic devices from chinese brands, and who knows what they contain inside."
Doesn't this apply to any such device, whatever the brand?
[EDIT: anyway, see next post]
I have bought and used a IDE+SATA to USB adapter recently. It worked as expected. I do not think there is any reason to be afraid of those adapters. Anyway, if you wish, you can keep the computer off the Internet while you are copying to its drive the content of your older drives.
Well, I remember reading about how you could in theory have a payload on these chips, pretty much any hardware with an USB interface specially.