Thermaltake BlacX eSATA USB Docking Station

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 3.6 x 2.6 inches ; 2 pounds


• 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: B001A4HAFS


• Item model number: ST0005U
  

By : Thermaltake
Price : $33.69
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Product Description

Thermaltakeâ?TMs Blac X storage delivers eSATA + USB 2. transfer speeds (USB to 480Mbps, and eSATA up to 3Gbps), in a patented style thatâ?TMs almost as well cool for words. This versatile challenging drive enclosure supports all 2.five-inch 3.5-inch SATA HDDs up to 1TB. Other superb functions include things like hot-swap capability for rapid multi-HDD access and exchange, assistance for both Windows and Mac. Compact docking station design maximizes heat dissipation and exhaust. The Thermaltake Blac X is Windows Vista prepared when you are!

 

Thermaltake BlacX eSATA USB Docking Station

 

Technical Details

• Supports all 2.5" and 3.5" SATA hard disk drives, up to 2 TB


• Hot-Swap Capability for Rapid Multi HDDs Access and Exchange


• Supports eSATA Transfer Speed up to 3Gbps


• Supports USB 2.0 Transfer Speed up to 480Mbps


• Compact Docking Station Design Maximizes Heat Dissipation ; Exhaust

Buyer Critiques

Works good. On e-sata, it is every single bit as quick as if it was internally installed. I haven't utilised the USB interface, but it is likely really a bit slower. My tough drives run barely warm to the touch. The eject button is genuinely only there to aid you pull it out. It works ideal for me to grab the drive and pull although pressing the button. The dock holds on to the drive pretty tightly, and if you eject the drive by basically pressing the eject button without having holding/pulling the drive itself, it could quickly pop entirely out and fall on the desk or the floor. Falling isn't especially superb for difficult drives, even if it is only a handful of inches.
This is SO considerably a great deal more useful than an enclosed external challenging drive if you need to have a few. Bare difficult drives are a lot less costly than the ones built into enclosures. They are particularly painless to install in this dock. It functions a lot like putting an iPod into a dock, but this is a lot additional robust. I use various difficult drives in my computer. I have music on a single, films and recorded Tv on one more, etc., to maintain all of that type of stuff off my primary drive. I have a couple a lot more I use as backups. I place them in an antistatic bag and in my fire secure.
Some reviewers have commented about how it says it functions up to 1TB or 1.5 TB. If yours says it functions up to 1TB, it is only since you got an older printing of the box. When the box was printed, the biggest drives generally out there had been 1 TB. Now they have changed the box and the internet web site to say 1.5 TB. They only changed the box, not the product. I am not sure why they place the "up to X.X TB" in there. Now drives are up to two TB, and they will all function with this as extended as the BIOS and the OS in your Computer will function with them. When they say "up to X.X TB", it leads people to believe that anything larger will not function, but it will. This point does not have a controller chip with a bios in it, just a easy straight by way of connection for the sata, and a relatively easy bus bridge chip for USB.

Functionally, I have no difficulty with this challenging disk docking station. Loading and unloading drives is really hassle-free and demands no special drive rails. Due to the fact the drive are not fully enclosed as they would be in a common drive enclosure, they run fairly cool. Surprisingly, (due to the fact the drives are not completely enclosed) there does not appear to be any alot more drive noise than with a typical enclosure. The only fault I can uncover is that the cables are too brief. Both the eSATA cable and the power cable are only about 3 and 1/two feet long. That is just not extended adequate. Three and a half feet is just barely lengthy enough to reach from the eSATA port on the back of my personal computer to my desktop. Likewise, it really is just barely sufficient to reach from there to my UPS. Unless the best of your personal computer is fully accessible and that's where you plan to preserve the enclosure (and it really is close to your energy provide), you need to be conscious of this. I can know 3.5 feet for the length of an eSATA cable. But, the energy cable really should be at least twice that. Because of the cable length issue, I am knocking off a single star and giving this Thermaltake BlacX eSATA Docking Station a Very Superior 4 stars out of five.

 

Thermaltake BlacX eSATA USB Docking Station

 

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