Thermaltake BlacX Duet eSATA USB Dual Hard Drives Docking Station ST0014U

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.8 x 6.7 x 7.7 inches ; 11 ounces


• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)


• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.


• ASIN: B002MUYOLW


• Item model number: ST0014U
  

By : Thermaltake
Price : $46.84
You Save : $13.15 (22%)

Product Description

Industry's most trusted hard drive docking station is now twice as convenient. BlacX Duet now gives two slots to turn any Serial ATA tricky drives into external USB two. or eSATA storage device in minutes. Moving massive chunks of videos, musics or information files between difficult drives will now happen in blazing speed (up to three. Gbps for eSATA or 480Mbps for USB two.) instead of the slow network cable. The dock supports all two.five inch or three.five inch SATA tricky disk drives up to 2 TB. Installation requires no screws or tools whatsoever. Basically pop your tricky drive into the dock, plug it into your laptop and you are set! Hot-swap support signifies you can use many hard drives with your computer with no getting to reboot. The dock also maximizes heat dissipation and exhaust to defend your device from damage and extend its life. Compatibility with each PCs and Macs tends to make the BlacX Duet adapt to multi platform environments.

 

Thermaltake BlacX Duet eSATA USB Dual Hard Drives Docking Station ST0014U

 

Technical Details

• Read ; Write 2 Hard Drives simultaneously (Note: Device's eSATA must support the "port multiplier" function to see both drives, USB will automatically detect)


• Supports All 2.5" ; 3.5" SATA Hard Drives up to 2TB (per slot)


• Supports eSATA Transfer Speed up to 3.0 Gbps, USB 2.0 Transfer Speed up to 480 Mbps


• Windows ; Mac OS Compatible


• Rapid Data Access ; Exchange w/ Single eSATA or USB Cable Connection

Buyer Testimonials

Bought the unit for a pc with P7P55D Pro motherboard operating Linux (Fedora 12). The system recognized the port multiplier without having difficulties two disks over eSATA worked out of the box. Tested it with two 500G drives (a Seagate and a WDC). Reading from a single drive offers a decent ~75 MB/s simultaneous reads from two drives drop the rate to 45 MB/s.
A important predicament, although: even though idle, the drives hover about ~47 degC. With ~1hr of heavy reading, they heat up to ~60 degC (with ambient temps around ~20 degC). The design of this dock blocks _all_ airflow to the bottom end of the drives, major to severe overheating. This tends to make BlackX practically useless for duplication of bigger drives they'll overheat/fail long just before the duplication has completed. E.g., I managed to copy ~150G of a 500G drive ahead of it hit 60degC and stopped.
Looks like a significant style flaw plan to return it.

The product functions great when you are just reading from the drive on a Mac. The difficulty comes when you try to write. The drive get's messed up and cannot write any longer. You get an Error -50 when you try a write operation. From the finder it is effortless to see, but some applications don't manage the error veery effectively and you can feel the file ha been updated when it hasn't. If you force eject the drive and remount you can write to the drive but following a whilst the error 50 comes up once more. The single drive version works terrific on the Mac but not the double drive version.

 

Thermaltake BlacX Duet eSATA USB Dual Hard Drives Docking Station ST0014U

 

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