Well, i saw it on DX, and decided to give it a try, since a have some laptop HDD's sitting arround.
My packet arrived, i went trough playing with the new gadgets, and BOOM, the bloody USB to SATA thing wouldn't work.
So, of course, i opened it. And it was worse than i could ever imagine. Take a look at the bastard.
Off course i de-soldered the crystal, cleaned that flux mess, put a spacer(made out of shrink tubing), and grounded the case of the crystal.
After that it worked OK.
Interesting thing is that when i was fixing it, i could hear mr. Dave Jones inside my head feeling disgusted by the cheapness and crapness of the adapter, and screaming "Just hammer it to pieces, on general principle!!!".. KKKKK