Barebone $40 USB-to-EIDE adapter seems to work for me

I spent about $40 to buy a USB 2.0 to EIDE adapter about a year ago, and I was not too happy about it back then because it didn't work well with my EIDE based DVD+R Recorder. And I put it aside since then. Recently, though, I had a need to connect some EIDE harddisk to my desktop for backup purpose, and I was pretty trill to find out that the adapter works pretty well with all the EIDE harddisk I attached to it. The performance was not spectacular, but not too shave neither. From now on I will sure include this gear in my computer repair toolbox.