Get documents off a SATA HD?

I want to help a friend by recovering images and documents from a WD2500 SATA drive removed from a dead PC. I am running an iMac with 10.6.8. If I buy an adapter like this one:
http://ift.tt/2b4bFfX
will I be able to see and copy the data on the drive?

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