Vantec SATA/IDE to USB 3.0 Adapter

This device seemed appealing due to its versatility, but I've barely been able to use it for more than basic file transfers. This interface uses the Innostor Technology Corporation IS611 SATA/PATA Bridge Controller (1f75:0611). The particular device I received has serious issues that prevent it from being usable, but it's not clear whether or not this is a driver issue or hardware issue. I need to be able to use disk imaging, partitioning, and SMART tools on external drives from Linux, but any such operation—even mounting the device to browse files in a file manager—will cause the device to hang for potentially minutes before continuing (if it decides to respond at all). This doesn't happen in Windows, but I had several files get stuck as unreadable and undeletable even just copying/deleting files on a known good SSD. It does technically work for copying files, and occasionally for more advanced uses if I am persistent, but it's not an experience I recommend unless you have PATA drives laying around that need backing up and there are no better options.